Professor in Archaeology at Uppsala University and former Head of Research at the National Historical Museums in Sweden, with several international publications in archeology, feminist posthumanities, cultural heritage and environmental humanities. Also Professor and researcher at the Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University. She is heading the Stockholm University Environmental Humanities Research School and one of the founders of Stockholm University Environmental Humanities Network. Doctorate in Archaeology at Stockholm University 2002/3, Director at the Discovery Programme, Ireland’s Research Institute in Archaeology 2002-2007, member of The Posthumanities Hub and the Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, and PI of research project Checking in with Deep Time (a three-year funding from Formas) as well as PI of Water of the Times (funded by the Swedish Science Council, Berit Wallenberg foundation), and Curating Time.

Ph.D. and researcher at the Division of Urban and Regional Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She participates in the project through research on soils and soil processes in urban development and planning. Her work centers on practices, expertise and materialities that shape cities and urban life, particularly in France and Sweden. Her doctoral thesis Planning Contexts: Bureaucracy and rule relations in French Urbanism (2020) explored how changing urban planning ideals impact land-use practices in Bordeaux, and how ambitious sustainability goals are transformed through negotiations about plans and land-use regulations among planners, officials and politicians. She has co-edited the book Dilemmas of Sustainable Urban Development: A View from Practice (2020), and teaches in the master’s program Sustainable Urban Planning and Design at KTH.

Karin Wegsjö received her education at The Dramatic Institute in Stockholm. She is the author of a large number of short features and documentary films which have been screened internationally; among others the Guldbagge award nominated film Bucharest’s Discreet Charm and the Guldbagge and Golden Gate award winning short film Part of the World that is Yours. Wegsjö also writes and directs for the theatre stage. She is a long-term collaborator with (p)Art of the Biomass.

Ph.D., artist and artistic researcher working in an environmental humanities and feminist posthumanities vein of critical and creative inquiry. She as a special interest in interspecies communication, listening as a situated practice, media ecologies, and art as a form of field philosophy through which multispecies conviviality and the cultivation of environmental care and attention can be explored. Her artistic work includes sound-based installations, participatory performances, walks, storytelling, mappings, writing, growing, and collaborative projects. She has been part of science communication projects, such as Reclaiming Futures, Storying the Change at Linköping University, and Popularizing Environmental Humanities at KTH Royal Academy of Technology, where she also had a position as research engineer. Other research projects include Museum ecologies, Stockholm University. She is also employed as researcher at the Royal Academy of Music (KMH), Stockholm. Co-founder of the art and research platform (p)Art of the Biomass, and member of The Posthumanities Hub.

Combining her skills as artist and gardener, she has been working with plant-human relations for more than fifteen years. She has initiated and facilitated community gardens and creative collaborations with researchers, schools and municipalities. Together with Janna Holmstedt, she has initiated the art and research platform (p)Art of the Biomass where art, ecology, science, and the humanities can meet and frolic. They explore multispecies relations, co-cultivation, speculative futures, and participatory processes through arts-based methods. She is also involved in the Nordic art project Skifte focusing on land reforms, land use and regenerative agriculture.

Professor and chair of Gender, nature, culture at TEMA, department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. She founded and runs The Posthumanities Hub, a research group and platform for linked environmental, biological and technological humanities, more humane and more-than-human humanities. The Hub brings art and science to the humanities, and existential insight to the people. Prof Dr Åsberg initiated in Sweden feminist new materialism, practices of posthumanities and environmental humanities (Seed Box) across arts and sciences. She has researched embodied and environed cultures and histories of medicine, engineering and molecular sciences, e.g. AI-technologies and waste management, biological diversity and climate change at the edge of the sea, and developed practices for the needed forms of posthumanities today, for instance more humane and more than human citizen humanities.