Participants

ANDRIY ANDRUSEVYCH is Senior Policy Expert at Resource & Analysis Center “Society and Environment,” an environmental think-tank organization in Ukraine. Formerly lecturer of International Environmental Law, Environmental Human Rights and Dispute Resolution in International Relations at Lviv National University (2002-2009), he holds a Masters in International Relations (1998). Since 2017 he also teaches the “Human Rights and Environment” course for the LL.M. program of the Ukrainian Catholic University Law School. Mr. Andrusevych has many years of experience working with environmental public interest law organizations. Mr. Andrusevych is EEB (European Environmental Bureau) Board member for Ukraine, as well as active member of the coordination body of the European ECO Forum, a coalition of environmental NGOs from all parts of Eurasia and delegation member for the Aarhus and Espoo Conventions, and SEA Protocol bodies. He has served for many years as European ECO Forum Legal Focal Point for Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia and has extensive experience in promoting implementation of and compliance with multilateral environmental agreements, especially the Aarhus and Espoo Conventions. He authored several publications in the area of environmental human rights, international environmental law and compliance mechanisms under multilateral environmental agreements.

MARCUS COELEN is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic supervisor in Berlin and New York. He teaches comparative literature at the University of Munich and other institutions. Coelen is the author of a book on Proust and Kant, a volume on Georges Bataille, and many articles in the fields of literature and psychoanalysis. He is also the editor of a book series called Neue Subjektile with the Viennese house Turia+Kant offering titles at the intersections of poetic thought, psychoanalysis, and philosophy.

KELLER EASTERLING is a designer, writer and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. She is currently working on a book about land activism in the US after the Civil Rights Movement. Other books include, Medium Design (Verso 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934-1960. Easterling lectures and exhibits internationally. Her research and writing was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling is a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design.

MAXIM KOLOMIIETS is a composer, oboist, and performer. He is the winner of the national competitions Gradus ad Parnassum (Kyiv, 2000), Step to the Left (Saint Petersburg, 2012), Skoryk Competition (Lviv, 2021) and III Prize on Vareler Komponistenpreis (Oldenburg, 2015). Maxim is the author of two operas. One of them was presented in a concert version in October 2020 by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra with Luigi Gaggero as conductor. In 2023, Maxim was commissioned to compose an opera about the abducted Ukrainian children by the Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center New Works Program, with a libretto by George Brant. His music has been performed at international festivals: Summer New Music Courses in Darmstadt (Darmstadt), VOICES Festival (Berlin), Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival (New York) etc. Among the performers of his music are Wiener Symphoniker (Wien), Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt am Main), Arditti quartet, Haydn-Orchester (Bozen), Ensemble MusikFabrik (Cologne), Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart.

MARTA KUZMA serves as the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Faktura 10. Marta Kuzma is a curator, theorist, and tenured Professor of Art at the Yale School of Art, where she was the first woman to be appointed Dean (2016–2021) in the institution’s 150 year history. Previously, Professor Kuzma was the Chancellor of the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2014–2016) and the Director of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo (2005–2013), steering a research-based institution that introduced the OCA Semesterplan, and exhibition projects such as Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?. In 2004, Kuzma was appointed co-curator of Manifesta 5 in San Sebastian. Professor Kuzma was the founding Director for the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, Ukraine from 1990–2000, during which she also established the SCCA Gallery at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, with a full program of international exhibitions and educational programs. During this time Kuzma curated many projects, including Alchemic Surrender in Sevastopol, Crimea in 1994, and Boris Mikhailov’s first full retrospective in 1996. At the start of her professional career, Kuzma directed the international exhibitions program at the International Center of Photography in New York under Cornell Capa, which played an important role in fostering her academic curiosity in the changing role of the documentary image. Professor Kuzma has authored numerous publications, the most recent of which is, History of An Art School (2022), the first published history of the Yale School of Art. Kuzma is a graduate of Barnard College, and a postgraduate in aesthetics and art theory from The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London.

RICHARD MAXWELL is an artist and longtime Hell’s Kitchen, NYC resident, having lived there
for the past 30 years. He has served as the Artistic Director of New York City Players since its founding in 1999. Over the course of his career, Maxwell has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. His work has been commissioned and presented in more than 20 countries, including by prestigious institutions such as the ICA London, Barbican Centre (London), Festival d’Automne (France), Kunsten Festival (Belgium), and the Vienna Festival, and has been presented at the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial.

MICHAŁ MURAWSKI is an anthropologist of architecture and cities. He is Associate Professor of Critical Area Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Michał is the author of A Form of Friendship: The Museum on the Square (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw/University of Chicago Press 2024), Only to Hell: Architecture, Ecology and Violence in Russia (MIT Press 2026, forthcoming) and The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw and a City Transfixed (Indiana University Press 2019). He is co-editor of several books and volumes, most recently the open-access Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West (with Wendy Bracewell and Tim Beasley-Murray, UCL Press 2025). In 2025, Michał is co-curator (with Bogdana Kosmina and Katerya Rusetska) of DAKH (ДАХ): Vernacular Hardcore, the pavilion of the Republic of Ukraine at the 19th Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2025.

OLEKSIY RADYNSKI is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His films experiment with documentary forms and practices of political cinema. They have been screened at film festivals and exhibitions worldwide including Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), e-flux (New York), Taipei Biennial, Docudays (Kyiv), Sheffield Doc Fest, Krakow IFF, DOK Leipzig etc. His films have received multiple awards, including the Grand Prix at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival for Chornobyl 22. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has collaborated with The Reckoning Project.

NATHANIEL A. RAYMOND is the founding Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and a Lecturer in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) at YSPH. He was formerly a Lecturer of Global Affairs at the Jackson School for Global Affairs from 2018-2022. Previously, he was the founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2012-2018. From 2010 to 2012, he was Director of Operations for the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan. Raymond has served as an advisor to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in South Sudan for early warning of mass atrocities and is an affiliate expert at the US Navy War College.

MAKSYM ROKMANIKO is an architect, researcher, and educator. Maksym is the founding director of the Center for Spatial Technologies (CST), a multidisciplinary practice based in Kyiv. Before starting CST, Maksym studied architecture in Kyiv, received a Fulbright to complete a Master's in Architecture at the University of Oregon (USA), and worked as an architect in Japan and the Netherlands. Maksym is a visiting lecturer at multiple international institutions, such as the Architectural Association in London and the Royal College of Art in London.

BRAD SAMUELS is a founding partner at SITU Research, a Brooklyn-based visual investigations practice that merges data and design to create new pathways for justice. He oversees work that supports activists, advocates, and lawyers by bridging the gap between digital evidence and the communities working towards accountability, collaborating with organizations like the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch, and the United Nations. Outside of SITU Research, Samuels has served on several advisory boards, including the International Criminal Court’s Technology Advisory Board, and currently teaches at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.

DARYA TSYMBALYUK is an interdisciplinary researcher, and her practice includes writing and image-making. Most of Darya’s work lies at the intersection of environmental humanities and artistic research. Darya is the author of Ecocide in Ukraine: the Environmental Cost of Russia’s War (Polity Press 2025), as well as Limits of Collaboration: Art, Ethics, and Donbas, co-written with Victoria Donovan in collaboration with artists and curators Dmytro Chepurnyi, Viktor “Corwic” Zasypkin, Oleksandr Kuchynskyi, and Kateryna Siryk (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Ukraine, 2022). Among her many shorter publications is a double special issue on the environmental humanities of Ukraine co-edited with Tanya Richardson and forthcoming with East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies. In addition to writing, Darya also works with images through drawing, painting, collage, and film essays. Darya serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization (CEGU), University of Chicago.