Francisco Martínez is an anthropologist dealing with contemporary issues of material culture through ethnographic experiments. In 2018, he was awarded with the Early Career Prize of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He currently works as Associate Professor at Tallinn University and convenes the Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation (EASA Network). Francisco has published several books, including Peripheral Methodologies (Routledge, 2021), Politics of Recuperation in Post-Crisis Portugal (Bloomsbury, 2020), Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough (Berghahn, 2019) and Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia (UCL Press, 2018). He has  also curated various exhibitions, such as “Objects of Attention” (Estonian Museum of Applied Art & Design, 2019) and “Living in Decline” (Estonian Mining Museum, 2021).

Tarmo Pikner holds doctoral degree in human geography, and pursues research on cross-border urbanity. Currently he works as Senior Researcher at Centre for Landscape and Culture at Tallinn University. His research topics include cultural-spatial transformations associated with global urbanisation, contested post-socialist environmental legacies, and the cultural dynamics of coastal areas. His current research activities are financed by the Estonian Research Council grant “Landscape approach to rurbanity” (grant no. PRG398).