Susannah Haslam is a tutor (research) in humanities at the Royal College of Art in London and a research fellow with Theatrum Mundi. Current research navigates loving and equitable relationships between contemporary education and cultural institutions and infrastructures; queer and critical subjects, solidarities, pedagogies, practices and environments; tertiary-level educational alternatives and expansions. Susannah works mostly in collaboration with others: current collaborations are with Dani Admiss, Lou Marcellin, Araceli Camargo, Megha Ralapati, Nathan Francois Cull, and Charles Pryor developing an open curriculum for the Sunlight Doesn’t Need A Pipeline project. Susannah wrote her PhD on the ‘Educational Turn’ in art and alternative art education, and previously studied visual cultures.

Lou-Atessa Marcellin is a cultural producer researching ideas of ecosophy in the ecological framework which interconnects social and environmental spheres.With a background in fine art, a graduate of the Royal College of Art (MA Performance) and UAL Camberwell College of Art (BA Photography), she founded the multidisciplinary research platform Diaspore and co-funded a seasonal school called Ronces. She is the Outreach Manager for the research organisation Theatrum Mundi and has been a visiting lecturer for UAL, the Royal College of Art, The Slade and Goldsmith University in London. www.diaspore.org / www.ronces.org / @diaspore_projects / @rrronces