Amalia Egle Gentile
Amalia Egle GENTILE (1978*) is a psychologist, family therapist, trainer, and expert in psychodiagnostics. She has obtained Master’s degrees in Institutional Communication, Internet of Humans and Things, and Neuroaesthetics. She is a senior researcher at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), where, as head of the Health Humanities Laboratory, she primarily focuses on research, training, and communication at the intersection of art, science, and health.
She is participating in the “Pharma-HUB – HUB for Drug Repurposing and Rare Diseases and Nervous System Diseases in Paediatric Age-POS 2014-2020-TRAJECTORY 4- ACTION 4.I” project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. Their involvement focuses on topics related to communication, training, and social inclusion, with a particular emphasis on health humanities.
Pia Moana Scharler
Pia Moana SCHARLER (1987*), studied Industrial Design and Graphic Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She studied abroad at the Tongji University in Shanghai. In her industrial design diploma she dealt with an aid for sign language in education and service design for children and non-deaf people in her environment. http://www.getusedto.it/#/
She was part of the PEEK project FWAR 366 D.A.S. Dementia. Arts. Society and from 2019-2024 of the PEEK project FWAR 609 DEMEDARTS. https://www.demedarts.com
Ruth Mateus-Berr
Ruth Mateus-Berr (1964*) is an artist, researcher and social designer, university professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna; head of the Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education. She holds a doctorate in art and science and a diploma in art therapy. She has published several articles and books and exhibits art and artistic research internationally. https://www.theartresearcher.com
She was part of the PEEK project FWAR 366 D.A.S. Dementia. Arts. Society and from 2019-2024 of the PEEK project FWAR 609 DEMEDARTS. https://www.demedarts.com
Ruba Saleh
Ruba is a lecturer and researcher at ICHEC Brussels Management School. She is an architect and urban planner specialized in cultural heritage management and economics. Her research investigates cultural entrepreneurship, circular business models, participatory cultural heritage processes and co-design, contested heritage, cultural heritage and regenerative economics. She manages C-SHIP (Cultural Entrepreneurship) professional training programme at ICHEC. She is currently part of the Working Group on entrepreneurial skills of the Large-Scale Skills Partnership for CCIs of the Pact for Skills and a partner in H2020 project Be.CULTOUR and COSME project TRACE.
Willem-Jan Renger
Willem-Jan Renger works in HKU University of the Arts Utrecht He has developed Ludodidactics as a design methodology derived from translational research and development bridging the gap between the field of applied game design and pedagogy. Substantial advances in the field of game design and video game production in recent years have led to a multitude of design patterns, strategies and design components to keep players of entertainment games enthralled in play experiences. Instead of using these advancements solely for entertainment purposes, these advancements have been translated to the field of learning. This field of serious (or applied) game design differs from entertainment games since it has to address two different aims; to keep players motivated and progressing their pursuit of achieving playful goals, while at the same time ensuring that learning objectives and learning outcomes are guaranteed as transferable outcomes of the experience.
Sónia Alves
Sónia works on the intersections of art (with a focus on media art), media theory and history, and design. Most recently she was involved in the bauhaus imaginaries research project as well as in researching in the historical context of cybernetics and complex system theory. At present, her interest has developed into the fields of neo-cybernetics and artificial intelligence. She is currently part of the K8 / HBKS team. In addition to CYANOTYPES, she is also active in the development of the regional start-up support ecosystem.
Florian Schneider
Florian Schneider is Professor for art theory and documentary practices at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art within the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and curator. His work is investigating the border crossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and open source technology, documentary practices and new forms of curating. He is the project coordinator for the Horizon Europe Project PACESETTERS.
Araf Ahmadali
Araf Ahmadali has been the director of the Department of Arts & Culture of the City of Amsterdam since February 2021, after being a policy advisor for this department for several years. Araf has a broad experience in making policies on international cultural affairs, funding, entrepreneurship and creative industries and a passion for creative (and digital) innovation and music production. Araf was in the lead to realize the first ‘Night vision’ of the City of Amsterdam; that calls for acknowledgement of night culture as a relevant artistic driver of Amsterdam and part of its cultural policy.
Angelika Zelisko
Angelika works at the interface of art and cultural management and serves as the DH of the Department ‘Support Art and Research,’ where her main focus is on enhancing research, entrepreneurship, and knowledge transfer. She has been actively involved in the project Knowledge Transfer Center East (WTZ Ost) since 2014, working at the intersection of art, research, and management. Within this framework, Angelika has co-led two projects: ‘Innovation Matters’ and ‘STEM: Interdisciplinary, Interactive, and Hands-on.’ She also developed a teaching format that emphasizes the prospects of professional practice for art students and alumni
Soenke Zehle
As a media theorist, Soenke writes, teaches and curates on all things linked to collaborative research projects at the interfaces of art, technology and design. Co-founder of xm:lab – Experimental Media Lab at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (HBKS, Academy of Fine Arts Saar), associate researcher at the Ubiqitous Media Technologies Lab (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), co-founder and co-managing director of the research-based transformation organization K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik gGmbH. Current research interests include anticipation and collective intelligence design.
Soenke is the project lead of HBKS in the CYANOTYPES project.
