Katja Jug (kajug.studio@gmail.com, katejug.net) is a visual artist working with mixed media. Her work comprises staged photographs, installations, happenings and artist’s books. She deals with themes from everyday life such as climate, nutrition and identity. Her latest publication is the photobook Frozen Unfrozen: A Poster Novel, funded by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. It tells the story of a man and a woman who meet in an unheated apartment in Chongqing, China. Photos, drawings and words are combined into a three-dimensional and multisensorial onomatopoeic experience, depicting how the protagonists live in and around their apartment.

Madlen Kobi is a social anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the Unit of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She obtained a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bern, and worked subsequently as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Zurich and at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. Her research and teaching focuses on architectural anthropology, urban political ecology, circular economy, waste, infrastructure, and material culture with a regional focus on China and Europe. Her work has been published among others in The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Visual Studies, Social Anthropology, Inner Asia and Eurasian Geography and Economics. Madlen currently leads an interdisciplinary research team that investigates circular construction and reuse in architecture (“Urban Bricolage. Mining, Designing and Constructing With Reused Building Materials”, Swiss National Foundation, www.urbanbricolage.ch).