Paula is a designer and explorer. With her material research she aims to support the elimination of food waste through the creation of circular biomaterials from industrial food production surplus. In her practise as material designer and as co-founder of Circular Home Lab, she initiates discourse around rethinking systems of waste. Paula is a PhD candidate at The Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment as part of the Living Textile Interface group. Her PhD The Materiality of Well-being: Living Textiles as Interfaces to enhance Well-Being in the Built Environment, studies the potential of textiles as living structures that nurture the well-being of human and more-than-human inhabitants in the built environment through multi-sensory inter-species interactions. 

Neli is an award-winning and highly experienced creative professional with a background in fashion, visual, and UI design. She dedicated her bachelor's and master’s thesis to researching sustainable fashion practices and developing environmentally friendly accessories collections. 

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She founded a sustainable luxury handbag brand ZMAI which got presented in exhibitions in London, Vienna, New York & Paris. As a member of SOTO society, she received the “Elle Style Awards” and was a finalist of the “Independent Handbag Designer Awards”, in the category Best Green Handbag. 

After studying business management at university, Alice had several experiences in the fashion industry, more specifically in sustainable fashion. From there, she realized fashion needed a change and started wearex with her co-founder Matea Zjacic. wearex is a platform to connect textile waste and upcycling brands to extend the clothing lifecycles. She is also part of Fashion Revolution. She is convinced change will come from the collaboration and knowledge sharing between all the different players inside the fashion ecosystem. Her expertise and interest focuses on topics around fashion, circularity, waste management and technology.

Odessa Legemah has assembled an extensive resume within the fashion industry. She gathered experience in fashion, journalism and art for ten years leading high-fashion editorial projects between Europe and Africa, before she became Head of Creative at NF advertisement company. In 2019 Odessa Legemah founded Assemblage Worldwide, inspired by the idea to set up a more responsible and impactful creative platform that works outside traditional frameworks of the fashion  industry, impacting small to middle enterprises focusing on sustainability.

Khan is a Muslim nonbinary person of color, based in Berlin/Istanbul. She is the creative director and founder of Guovarde. Besides fashion, she does multidisciplinary art projects. She identifies herself as an ambassador of Central Anatolia! Her mission is to show that fashion can be Turkish, POC, Religious, Intense, Art, Islamic, Traditional or Political. As a creator, she always integrates politics and social crisis themes into her art and fashion.