David Cotte-Birgé is a French Maker living in Belgium in an organic farm. He is specialized in prototyping bio and agri tech for sustainable production of food and bio-based materials. His last works include an automatic small-scale mushroom growing system, a peristaltic pump for microbiology works, a solar irrigation system for vegetable farming and micro-algae bioreactors.

Project Name: Spirulina Solar Bioreactor (SSB)

Navid Lari was born and raised in Brussels, from Iranian parents and both artists. He studied filmmaking, but by the end of his studies he switched to something that had been more appealing to him for a while: interactive storytelling. He started creating escape rooms and treasure hunts, as a continuity of what had him into filmmaking: telling a story, creating an atmosphere, from scenario to set and prop building, but with the main difference that the spectators would get engaged into the process of the storytelling, becoming somewhat of a spect’actor. Nowadays, escape rooms are mostly used in a commercial goal, for entertainment, but Navid believe that it can be used as a full artistic medium, as cinema itself, to tell any kind of story, to educate, to sensibilize, to touch people and impact society.

Project Name: ARCTIC MISSION: be part of the expedition

Susana Silvestre is a developer of urban labs as well as a practitioner of citizen engagement and democratic participative processes in public libraries. Focuses mainly on inclusive and sustainable programmes that will bring about greater equity and empowerment among people, through design thinking, visual thinking and storytelling training. Co-author with Public Libraries 2030 of a toolkit on civic engagement in public libraries, currently awaiting publication in the European Commission. Susana holds a Degree in Social and Cultural Communication and a Master’s Degree in Libraries. She is Currently Head Division of Monitoring, Communication and Public Participation in the Urban Planning Department in the Lisbon City Council. Susana took on a leadership position in the Lisbon Libraries Network between 2010-2022. Throughout the years she has been working intensely co-creatively with stakeholders, nationally and internationally, to push development, networking and innovation in the library sector.

Project Name: Desire Lines - Improving urban walkability