Centering on the political ecology of industrial agriculture, the workshop includes film screenings and a field trip to the largest agribulk terminal in Europe (Amsterdam Bulk Terminal), as well as talks from artists, architects, and activist scholars over two days.

Participants include Audrey Samson & Francisco Gallardo from FRAUD collective, Anam Mehta (UC Santa Barbara), Sasha Engelmann (Royal Holloway University), Melody Matin (Forensic Architecture), Anastasia Eggers (NL-based artist), Merve Bedir (co-founder of Matbakh-Mutfak مطبخ), Elena Longhin (TU Delft), Dominique Arsenault (Ecological Economics at Université de Technologie de Compiègne), Rahael Mathews (University of Amsterdam), Rebeca Ibáñez Martín (Meertens Institute), Florence Evans (University of Amsterdam), and Mohamed Sleiman Labat (Sahrawi filmmaker).

Jeff Diamanti is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities (Cultural Analysis & Philosophy) at the UvA. His first book, Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Bloomsbury 2021) tracks the political and media ecology of fossil fuels across the extractive and logistical spaces that connect remote territories like Greenland to the economies of North America and Western Europe. His new research, Bloom Ecologies, follows the mining of phosphorous in the occupied Western Sahara to the aquatic currents forcing algal bloom and hypoxic milieu all over the planet.

Rebeca Ibáñez Martín is an anthropologist with expertise in environmental anthropology and social studies of science. She is a senior researcher at the KNAW and at UvA’s Anthropology department. She is the principal investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant "VITALGREENHOUSE", where she analyzes sustainability transitions in European horticultural greenhouses. In her research, she focuses on mobility, particularly the circulation of non-humans as collaborators or pests, and technological interventions and innovations.

Florence Evans (she/her) is a researcher with a background in in art history and visual culture, and specialising in the cultural memory of state violence. As a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam’s School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), she examines the aesthetics of activism confronting institutionalized impunity in the aftermath of Argentina’s dictatorship (1976–1983).