27 13 afloat is a publishing and educational platform to imagine the end otherwise. Co-led by writer and spatial researcher María Mazzanti and graphic designer and artist Anna Bierler, afloat explores the boundaries of storytelling, worldmaking, and climate catastrophe. Together, they engage as obsolescence, waste, collapse, and disappearance. Through publications, workshops, and experimental formats such as compost-publishing and wet-reading tools, afloat develops methods for thinking, writing, and feeling through endings —staying attuned to the planetary crisis from a space of vulnerability and care. 13 María Mazzanti is an architect, editor, and educator based in Amsterdam. Her work focuses on critical spatial practices, publishing, and environmental breakdown. She is an editor at Failed Architecture, managing editor of VOLUME magazine, and teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Instituut. 13 Anna Bierler is a Rotterdam-based artist working across writing, performance and visual art. Her work explores feminist temporalities, ecological entanglements, and how meaning is shaped in relation to others. She regularly teaches at art and architecture schools, including Gerrit Rietveld Academie, TU Delft, WdKA, and the University of Antwerp. 14 Mercedes Peralta is an Argentine–Italian architect, researcher, and educator, based between Buenos Aires and Europe. She studied architecture at University of Buenos Aires and earned her Master of Architecture from Princeton University. Her work explores architecture through various formats, including spatial design, editorial and art direction, with a focus on materiality, atmosphere, and landscape. She has held a Research Associate position at Harvard GSD, where she also co-taught thesis in the Landscape Architecture program. Further teaching experience includes Princeton, TU Graz, and most recently her role as Senior Lecturer at TU Wien. She has collaborated with Studio Boden on media, identity, and visual projects. Her research and design work has been published internationally, being also co-author of the Harvard GSD research publication 50 Species Towns. 15 Studied Architecture at Delft Technical University, Michel Melenhorst worked at Wiel Arets (1991-1995), Rem Koolhaas/OMA (1995-1999), DAAD Architects (2005-2012) and founded 2012 FM together with Angelika Fuchs, specialised in research and design, especially on educational and inclusive spaces. Since 2012, he has been Professor for Contextual Design at the Detmold School of Design, and he is Dean of Studies and coordinator for the Architecture Master. Michel Melenhorst has extensive experience in architectural design, teaching, lecturing, coordinating processes, project leadership, research, and writing and coalesces all these, in varyingcombinations, with different accents, and at several institutes, such as TU Delft, ArtEZ, Design Academy Eindhoven, Aarhus school of Architecture, K Arts Seoul.
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