Professor Emeritus in the Department of Visual Arts at Paris 8 University. Member of the Arts des images et art contemporain (TEAMeD/AIAC/EA 4010) research laboratory. Co-founder and co-director of the journal Sonorités (2006-2017) and member of the scientific committee of the publishing house Eterotopia France. His research topics include ecosophy, sound ecology, and contemporary art. His latest book: Les sonorités du monde. De l’écologie sonore à l’écosophie sonore (Les Presses du réel, 2023). Co-editor: Arts, Ecologies, Transitions: Concepts and Practices (Routledge, 2024); Arts, Ecologies, Transitions. Un Abécédaire (Les Presses du réel, 2024).

Senior research scientist at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment—INRAE. After leading a career in plant developmental biology, Sylvie Pouteau has specialized in plant philosophy and agricultural ethics with a special emphasis on inter- and transdisciplinary research actions. Her areas of interest are plant ethics and virtue ethics in the context of agriculture and food production, with recent work on plant agency and Umwelt and on agroecosophy. Recent papers: La Pensée écologique, Plastir, Interfaces Numériques, Philosophies, Natures Sciences Sociétés. Co-editor: Is environmental virtue ethics a ‘virtuous’ anthropocentrism? (MDPI Books, 2025). Editor: Cause végétale. Coopérer avec des êtres végétaux pour se nourrir (Quae, forthcoming 2026).

Eulalia De Valdenebro (Popayán, Colombia, 1978). PhD in Aesthetics and Art Technologies, Paris 8 University. Research focus: Art and ecosophy. Artist-botanist and researcher. Professor at the National University of Colombia. All her work stems from a fundamental question about the relationship that human beings establish with plant life, and therefore the relationship itself with the oikos (the home). Her artistic work has been exhibited in institutions in Colombia, France, Spain and Canada. She has created a permanent living sculpture in downtown Bogota, published her botanical illustrations for books and science museums, and her research in the Ejercicios Decolonizantes collection, ediciones el signo. She has participated as an author and co-editor in the book Cuerpospermeables, Paramos Arte y ciencia en dialogo con las obras de Eulalia De Valenebro, and received an honourable mention for her book La Escuela de Plantas y el principio metantropico, from the Alejandro Angel Escobar Social Sciences Prize. All her publications are freely available at www.eulaliadevaldenebro.com.

Pauline Lisowski is an artist gardener, art critic and independent exhibition curator, member of AICA and C-E-A. She graduated from the School of Art from Nancy (DNAP in 2009), studied for two years at the School of Landscape Architecture from Blois and holds a Master’s degree in Aesthetics and a Master’s degree in Cultural Projects in Public Spaces from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her work explores the links between artists and gardens and landscapes. Her research focuses on the relationships between art and care, art and plants, and the practices of artist-gardeners. She is interested in sustainable artistic practices and artistic projects that extend over time. Her exhibitions, composed like gardens, explore the question of plant life. She also aims to foster encounters between disciplines, especially through the Artborescences association, of which she is a member.

Marine Fauché is a professor of philosophy and “junior teacher” (CPJ) in environmental philosophy at Paris-Saclay University, where she is attached to the ‘Ecology, Society, Evolution’ laboratory. She previously defended a thesis on the ethical and epistemological issues of flora conservation science and practices in the French Mediterranean region in the context of global change, and was an assistant professor at the Centre for Training in Environment and Society (CERES) at the ENS. She has published her work in the journals Natures Sciences Sociétés and Terrestres, and will soon publish a book entitled ‘Les médecins de la terre’ (The Doctors of the Earth), based on her thesis work, with Éditions universitaires de Dijon.