Rich Earth Institute

Shawn Shafner (The POOP Project, USA)
Building EcoSan Community: A Travelogue from Pee to Shining Pee
Shawn Shafner is founder of The People’s Own Organic Power Project, creating award-winning theater, film, podcasts and educational events catalyzing conversation about sustainable sanitation from the floor of the United Nations to the mountains of Rwanda. Shawn is also an accomplished theatre artist, educator, and mindfulness coach devoted to manifesting a world of creativity, community and joy.

Kim Worsham (FLUSH, USA)
Things We Can Learn from Toilet History
Kimberly Worsham, MPA, MIWM is the Founder of the social enterprise called FLUSH and a water and sanitation specialist with over a decade of experience. She has consulted on projects globally including India, Australia, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda,  Cambodia, and the US.

Marine LeGrand (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Programme OCAPI, France)
Reclaiming or Commodifying? Pee and Poo on the screen
I am an anthropologist engaged in a creative research approach. My work focuses on social practices that redefine the inclusion of human bodies in the cycles and rhythms of the living, in a post-industrial context. I am since 2018 researcher and facilitator in the OCAPI program (Water Environment Urban Systems Laboratory), in France.

Aroussiak Gabrielian (University of Southern California, USA)
Posthuman Habitat
Aroussiak Gabrielian is a speculative designer working with biological materials, natural systems, and atmospheric phenomena. Her design work aims to torque our imaginaries to help us re-think our interactions with both human and non-human agents on this planet. Aroussiak is co-founder and Design Director of foreground design agency, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at the School of Architecture, and Affiliate Faculty of Media Arts Practice at the School of Cinematic Arts, both at the University of Southern California.