Neo-futuristic Walks is an urban laboratory that combines walking, speculative design, and performative practices. Initiated in 2020 by Aušra Česnauskytė and Goda Verikaitė, two Lithuanian spatial designers, the project grew out of the urge to question how we shape cities while facing ecological uncertainty and the failures of dominant architectural principles. Through this project, designers are eager to explore alternative methods of urban research and find tools to uncover the hidden cultural, ecological, and social layers of urban tissue.
Ewa Effiom is a London-based Belgo-Nigerian architect, writer and producer. He is a practising architect having worked in London and Manchester and was a member of the Architecture Foundation’s New Architecture Writers’ second cohort. Mythology, collective identity, popular culture and their inextricable links to the built environment are recurring themes in his work with a focus on mythology and folklore that different subcultures instate and associate to space. Margarida Waco (Cabinda/Denmark) is an architect and writer. She is currently undertaking a PhD as a doctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zürich. Amongst other things, she directs and teaches an architectural design studio at the Royal College ofArt in London and serves at the editorial advisory board for The Funambulist, where she previously headed the strategic outreach.
Melissa Harrison is a Berlin-based researcher and practitioner working across somatic, social, and spatial practice; transformative pedagogies; and urban performativity and justice. Her doctoral research and practice explored the choreographies of common(ing) space: (un)learning and (un)making the city. Amongst other things, Melissa is a dancer and yoga teacher; a member of the >top project space and association; a member of the Urban Commons Research Collective; and a board member of the transdisciplinary research collective, AoA.
Jonathan Steiger is a Swiss artist based in Amsterdam. With a wide-ranging approach that includes video, sculpture and writing, he works on the topics of landscape, aesthetics and ecology. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts and is a graduate of the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam.
Eileen Stornebrink is an architect based in Roterdam. She holds an BSc and MSc in Architecture from the Delft University of Technology. Her graduation project was an investigation of social and ecological design solutions for the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten that was severely hit by hurricane Irma in 2017. She is the co-founder of Studio Inscape.
Mirto Delimichali is a choreographer and researcher based in Athens. She holds an MA in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts and BA from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on the performativity of public spaces and the sensorial approach of choreography. Her choreographic projects and collaborations have been part of festivals internationally.