Every member of the organization team has a special place. It could be a place in between, a space that inspires them or holds a special memory. These places are tied to stories. Here you can meet our team and find out about their favorite place. – And what is yours?
Festival director
Saada (she/her) – I like places where different funny objects can be found. The objects tell something about the place they are inhabiting, and the place tells something about the objects. As a visual anthropologist, I like to explore the spaces between objects, places and humans. These are the spaces where I can discover and at the same time create.
Finance and food / catering
Maria (she/her) – I’m still looking for my place, in the meantime I like to spend time in Giovanni’s allotment garden. (upper left)
Hannah (she/her) – I’m Hannah, 25, and my favourite place to be is in my bedroom. This is where I feel safest, no matter how many times I’ve moved or how the room has changed. What I like about it is that it’s mine, and it will always welcome my retreat. (upper right)
Fabiana (she/none) – I feel the most inspired, comforted, calm and held when I’m around trees. Whenever there’s a tree nearby that I can sit under, stand beside or marvel at from a distance, it grounds me. My favourite spaces are distinguished by their company. (bottom)
Tech
Miri (mensch/none) – I don’t have a favourite place, I enjoy the process of moving between spaces, maybe a reason why I enjoy traveling for weeks, continuously exploring and resting in new landscapes. (upper right)
Selma (she/her) – My favourite place is the balcony of our holiday home in Prättigau. From there you can look out over the mountains, surrounded by cow meadows – and in summer one can play cherry stone spitting up there. (middle)
Amir (he/him) – I deeply enjoy small alleyways in a city. They are spaces filled with history and purpose, leading you to important and sometimes unanticipated places. A small staircase to a viewing platform, a pathway to an old church or just a shortcut through the streets leading to the marketplace. They are signs of a city made for people and their distinctive needs; unexpected, unique and a bit adventurous. (bottom)
Visual communication
Milena (she/her) – You’ll find me in the woods. Wherever those may be. The woods of my childhood; filled with beautiful memories of laughter and tears. The woods that nurture and take care of me; gifting me the space to unfold my imagination and teach me about their wonders of life; their wonders of being and becoming. (top)
Meret (she/her) – One of my favourite kind of spaces are kitchens, especially those of loved ones, of friends. Kitchens are spaces in which many beautiful moments can take place: cooking there together for the first time, drinking tea at the kitchen table, having heartfelt conversations or finding cinnamon in the shelfs as if it was my own place. (bottom)
Festival correspondence
Frederik (he/him) – I don’t have ‘a favourite place’. I associate places with people and experiences. On my travels, I have realized that it depends more on sensations and feelings and less on the beauty of the place itself. A fortnight ago, I ate a Dürüm with my friend on the castle hill in Rapperswil on Lake Zurich. The picture shows a place where we enjoyed the sunshine, sunset and a Döner mit allem scharf.
Public relations
Eva (she/her) – My favourite place is wherever my loved ones are, especially my children. From the moment they entered the earthly space, they became my safe place, and I became theirs. They were also a “space in between”: between mom and dad, between two cultures, two religions, two lifestyles, and two realities. But they not only became a space in between, they are the comprehensive space that unites both worlds. (upper left)
Ella (she/her) – My favourite place is in the mountains. It’s always a place of contradictions, the immensity but also the small things, the vastness but the familiarity, the dangerousness but the beauty. I feel free in the mountains. (upper right)
Lena (she/her) – If you ask my friends where I can be found, they will answer: “She’s outside”. When I think about it, my favourite place is a simple one. I have found it among the everyday things: Outside. In the sun. (bottom)