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Chandrika Francis

is founder and facilitator of the Oshun Swim School. Chandrika is dedicated to supporting people of color to have a relationship to the earth grounded in remembrance, safety, connection, healing, and liberation! Before founding OSS in 2018, Chandrika supported youth of color to reconnect with the earth for seven years in the form of environmental education, backpacking trips, camping trips, conservation work, classroom teaching, and youth development. She has a Masters in Education through the Islandwood Program at the University of Washington, with a focus in decolonizing environmental education. She is a bi-coastal baby at heart, having spent her life between Oakland, Seattle, and the East Coast, and is excited to bring her work to the lands she loves.

Samuel Hertz

is a composer and researcher working with sound-sensing networks of environmental science research, whose works span electronic music, interstellar radio transmissions, deep sea broadcasts, and doom metal concerts. His work has been exhibited and performed in the Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Palais de Tokyo (FR), Mudam Luxembourg (LU), Haus der Kunst (DE), Akademie der Künste (DE), Pioneer Works/Wave Farm (US), the Onassis Foundation (GR), Amant (US), Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE), National Science + Media Museum (UK), and the International Space Station, among others. Hertz is a graduate of Mills College Center for Contemporary Music, where he studied composition with Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith and Roscoe Mitchell. He is currently an AHRC/Techne-funded PhD candidate at the Royal Holloway University of London Centre for GeoHumanities, researching sound-sensing networks within bioacoustic conservation and politics of acoustic sensing.

Pietro Odaglia

is a postdoctoral researcher in digital fabrication at ETH Zurich working on robotic manufacturing processes for mineral construction materials. His research investigates how additive manufacturing can transform granular mineral resources into architectural components. He founded the 3D Stone Printing Lab, where a large-scale binder-jetting platform was developed as an open research instrument for studying fabrication processes, material systems, and architectural applications at building scale. The system enables experimentation with heterogeneous mineral materials, including quarry fines and stone waste, allowing these resources to be transformed into stone-like components through automated fabrication. His work spans machine design, material research, and computational design. Through experimental prototypes and architectural installations, he explores how robotic fabrication can generate new material expressions and construction logics while enabling more circular approaches to mineral construction. His research examines how digital fabrication technologies may reshape the relationship between architecture, material resources, and construction processes, investigating how automated production can reconnect architectural design with the geological origins of building materials.

Special Thanks

to all of the credited collaborators, artists and contributors, as well as Anna Bitkina, Annette De Vries, Marijntje Knapen, Edwin Blankhorst, Yip Stals, Ferdi Maks, Nicole Immler & Dialogics of Justice, The Black Archives Amsterdam, Kel O’Neill, Luke Cohlen, Nina Bozicnik, Luke Du Bois, Folker Silge & ARTX Design, Water Babies Seattle, Sygns Neon, Appleoak Fibre Works, and the Rijksmuseum.