Hilke Marit Berger is an urban researcher working at the interface of cultural studies and urban planning on the connection between technical issues and social as well as cultural developments. Her research interests include practices of participation, co-creation and collective urban design in the field of artistic practice and politics. In her current transdisciplinary research, she investigates the collaborative potential of mixed reality applications (especially VR and AR) for participation processes in urban planning. She serves as a juror in various contexts and advisory boards, developed, coordinated and worked for several artistic and scientific projects, for festivals, theaters, universities and authorities in Leipzig, Berlin and Hamburg. She lectures and publishes internationally. Currently she is a researcher at the CityScienceLab of the HafenCity University Hamburg (a cooperation with the Media Lab of MIT Cambridge / USA) and is responsible for the research program.

Sabine Gehm is artistic director of the international festival TANZ Bremen and in the management team of the Tanzpakt project 'MV tanzt an'.

From 2006 to 2016, together with Katharina von Wilcke, she directed the first four editions of the international dance congress of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Berlin 2006, Hamburg 2009, Düsseldorf 2013, Hannover 2016).

A graduate in cultural studies, she was program dramaturg and director of various festivals (including Junge Hunde, Independance Days, Tanzplattform Deutschland 2000) at Kampnagel Hamburg from 1994 to 2001 and coordinated, among other things, the international performing arts network 'Junge Hunde', which she co-founded, from 2001 to 2005.

Before that, she worked as an organization manager at the International Summer Theater Festival Hamburg.

As a freelance curator and cultural manager, she conceived and was responsible for international exchange projects, think tanks, laboratories and academies for KSB, BFDK, DTD, among others. She is on the board of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and was chair of the board of trustees at the Fonds Darstellende Künste from 2015 to 2020, for which she led the decision-making processes in 2020 (including publication of the handout on jury procedures). She is active as a reviewer and member of various juries of nationwide and international programs and works as a mentor in an advisory capacity for various artists and projects.

Felix Worpenberg studierte Kulturwissenschaften in Hildesheim und arbeitet als Performer und Produktionsleiter in den Freien Darstellenden Künsten. Als Teil der Freien Gruppe DIE SOZIALE FIKTION und des SYNDIKAT GEFÄHRLICHE LIEBSCHAFTEN verfolgt er eine kollektive, forschende Arbeitsweise. Mit dem SYNDIKAT arbeitet er im ländlichen Raum zum Thema Verschwinden (u.a. im Rahmen von TRAFO – Modelle für Kultur im Wandel). Er war Geschäftsführer von transeuropa2015 – europäisches Festival für performative Künste in Hildesheim und ist aktuell in der Betreuung von Forschungsresidenzen bei flausen+ artists in residence tätig.