UNDERGROUND

The Hidden City. Why the Real Taste of Warsaw Is Hidden Under Its Surface? (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Anna Sanczuk, journalist, editor for the TV Channel "Europa, Europa", co-author of the book "Warsaw - Looking For the Center" [Warsaw]

UNIVERSE

The Logarithmic World of Scales or the Meldody of Creation: Global Scaling - An Introduction into Hartmut Müller's World Model (BM8)
Arch. Erwin Kaltenegger, architect, own architecture firm since 1993, focus: innovative, energy-optimized building concepts and solar construction [Passail]

Cosmos and Body. Development of Mankind and Development of the Child in the Curriculum of the Waldorf Schools (BM8)
Birgit Stransky, partner of Freie Waldorfschule Graz OEG, learning support teacher [Graz]

URBAN SPACE

Once Upon a Time there was a City Hall in Jaffa, 33 Jerusalem Blvd. (Nuzhaa St.) (BM12)
Yousef Asfour, teacher, educator and youth leader. He has an MA in History. He has translated many films from Arabic to Hebrew, among them "Badal", "Bil'in Habibti" and "9 Stars Hotel" [Tel Aviv]

Forgotten Territory, Lost Places and Buried Houses - Palestinian Signs in North Tel Aviv (BM12)
Gilia Breger, preservation architect. She has been working on a survey initiated by the Tel-Aviv municipality to research preservation possibilities in the north of Tel Aviv. [Tel Aviv]

Public Debate About Space Consumption in Warsaw: Between Zombies and Vampires (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Krzysztof Cibor, culture anthropologist and editor of "(Op.cit.)" magazine [Warsaw]

We Want our Public Spaces Back! Different Strategies to Make it Happen (BM12)
Amal Elsana-Alh'jooj, Co-Executive Director of the Negev Institute and the director of AJEEC - the Arab Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation. At the age of 17 she founded the first Bedouin Women's Organization in Israel, and since then she has been a pioneer and a leader, working to advance the status of women in Israeli Bedouin society and close social divides within Israeli society. In 2005 she was nominated for a Nobel Prize as part of the "1000 women for a Nobel Prize" initiative. [Tel Aviv]

Non-Places. Invisible Architecture in Warsaw (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Lukasz Gorczyca, art critic and founder of Raster Gallery [Warsaw]

A Room of One's Own - the Change of Urban Space in Jaffa and its Effect on Three Generations of Women (BM12)
Hanna Hamdan, urban and regional planner, and staff member at Adalah center. She worked in a private office specializing in urban planning from 1998-2001 and as director of Rikaz Data-bank at the Galilee Society. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. [Tel Aviv]

Anti-Clubbing. Animation of Cultural Suburbs (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Marcin Majewski, sociologist and animator of alternative culture [Warsaw]

Swimming Strictly Forbidden! The Contamination of Tel Aviv - Jaffa's Coastal Waters and Fish over the Past 50 Years (BM12)
Abu George Shibli, comes from a family of fishermen. His father operated the Jaffa lighthouse, and his family lived within the lighthouse grounds. Nowadays he resides in Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood. He is an activist, working with organizations for Jaffa and its residents and for the "Sulcha Peace Project". He also counsels groups as a volunteer in a drug addiction rehabilitation center. [Tel Aviv]

Invisible Gallery (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Jaroslaw Suchan, custodian and art critic [Warsaw]

URBANISM

A tour through Leningrad 1983 - sights of a soviet city with sprinkles of history (BM2)
Elke Beyer, historian, research area post-socialistic urban development, research assistant at Shrinking Cities, Projekt Schrumpfende Städte [Berlin]

1) How to help the progress of your city with every day knowledge. Between city budget and Ich -AG
2) Imposed mobility: 1945 and today (BM2)
Dr. Klaus Brake, Prof. for regional and urban development, researcher, and consultant, conductor of the BerlinStudie [Berlin]

Crimes and Guilt of Urban Planning and the Creation of Unrecognized Citizenship - the Case of Jaffa, Ramleh, and Lod, Told with Maps and Aerial Photos (BM12)
Buthayna Dabit, an architect and the director of Mixed Cities Project "Shatil", founded by the New Israel Fund. The project deals with the housing problem and the failures of planning in mixed cities, focusing mainly on Ramleh, Lod, Jaffa and Akko. In 2002 she established the "Adar Association" in Ramleh, aiming to preserve and rehabilitate the old city, solve the housing problems in the city, improve the quality of the environment, and promote joint living in Ramleh. [Tel Aviv]

"I don't believe in the concept of waste land", showing pictures from the British Landscape (BM 11)
John Davies, narrative landscape photographer, short-listed for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2008. Curated "Cities on the Edge" photography book and exhibition in November 2008, Liverpool [Liverpool]

The Welsh Streets are laid to waste whilst Liverpool's housing waiting list grows to 40,000. Find out why (BM 11)
Nina Edge, artist and spokesperson for local residents group The Welsh Streets Home Group, who have campaigned to renovate rather than demolish useful housing [Liverpool]

A city of broken promises. Or Liverpool's love for degeneration (BM 11)
Roger Hill, live artist [Liverpool]

The Differences in Planning Policies and Urban Development between Arab and Jewish Towns (BM12)
Bilal Massarwa, graduated from Taybeh high school, and received his BA and MA from the Institute of Engineering in Moscow, then Soviet Union. He has been self-employed in the fields of engineering, architecture and construction since 1982, as well as working for several private and governmental companies. He was chief engineer for Taybeh municipality between 1999 and 2004. Since the end of his office, he has been gathering figs in his orchard. [Tel Aviv]

Experiencing the City through the Dérive - a Situationist Wandering Method Based on an Accelerated Passage through Diverse Environments (BM12)
Sharon Rotbard, architect, writer and publisher. He teaches in the department of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy. Among his books, "White City, Black City" (Babel 2005), "Avraham Yaski- Concrete Architecture" (Babel 2007), and "Not in Jaffa, Not in Tel Aviv: Stories, Testimonies and Documents from the Shapira Neighborhood" (editor, with Muki Zur, Babel 2009). [Tel Aviv]

UTOPIA

Carnival, a game full of ambivalence, is not the revolution. It opens the door to the world of “what if…?”, allowing those who have no wish to be martyrs to enter a world where the game of fantasy makes it appear almost utopian (Licence No.1)
Sonja Brünzels author and political activist, released the "Handbook of the Communication Guerrilla" with Luther Blissett [Germany]

Hide and seek. The international situationists (Licence No.1)
Dr. Jörn Etzold scientific contributor for the Institute for Applied Drama Studies at Gießen University, author of "The Melancholic Revolution of Guy-Ernest Debord" [Frankfurt Main]

New Types of Masculinity: Intuition and Associative Thinking (only men allowed!) (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Redbad Klynstra, actor and theatre Director [Warsaw]

Visions for Germany - Why we need a wall again (Licence No.1)
Peter Mendelsohn "Die PARTEI“, chairman of the State Association of Baden-Württemberg and acting federal chairman, treasurer of Hintner-youth, qualified business economist (BA) [Mannheim]

"Wartopia" - Sandbox Warsaw: Reconstruction of the Destruction (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Aleksandra Polisiewicz, artist [Warsaw]

A brave new world. Optimistic blueprints for the future (Licence No.1)
Prof. Dr. Sandra Richter professor for contemporary German literature at Stuttgart University and visiting fellow at King's College London [Stuttgart]

1. How Mankind Is Going To Die: Two of the Most Attractive Possibilities
2. The Way To the Universe: Terraforming of Planets Or Cosmoforming of Men? (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Dr. Andrzej Zimniak, doctor of Chemical Sciences, academic researcher, writer and publicist [Warsaw]


UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA

1) Mary Koszmary/Nightmares: Jews! Poland Needs You (2007)
2) Wall and Tower (working title): Building a Settlement in Warsaw (2009) (BM12)
Yael Bartana, artist, working primarily with video. In her works she focuses on the "Israeli condition". The point of departure for her videos is everyday life and rituals related to actions of the state and the constant presence of war. Her films are often centered on a personal poetic expression, achieved through the manipulation of sound, movement and images, and they spark off responses regarding the political as well as questions of machismo, gender and human relationships. [Tel Aviv]