Theme: "Who Cares?"

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Your TEDxDonauinsel team

Odeon Theatre
Taborstraße 10
Vienna, Wien, 1020
Austria

Aisha Khurram

Aisha Khurram (22 years old) is the former Afghan Youth Representative to the UN, she was pursuing her undergraduate studies in the department of law and political science at Kabul University, she had one month to graduate when the collapse of the Afghan government happened in August 2021, after the Taliban took over power, she fled from Afghanistan and has been living in Germany since then. She has now started her studies by receiving a scholarship from Bard College Berlin with the support of Gerda Henkel Foundation, where she will be able to continue and complete her education. She is now working as project assistant and translator with Kinderberg Organization in Afghanistan.

Anastasiya Klysakova

Multi-vector professional with strategy & project management, marketing, communications & PR successful cases in education, health, culture, and impact projects. Currently, Anastasiya is taking a 3rd higher education to get a psychology degree in existential analysis, and she is ex-curator of Global Shapers Kyiv Hub, a youth community founded by the World Economic Forum.

Beatboxer Fii

Beatboxer

Fii: LIME my music is my color philosophical, political, pluralistic ceL/Rebration Luna: 16 years from Vienna, young singing talent, new songs coming soon

Birgit Straka

Birgit is the Executive Director of Viva con Agua Austria. The international network of activists, musicians and artists works to improve global access to drinking water and has redefined the concept of development cooperation: As an all-profit organization, Viva con Agua strives to change the world with joy. Birgit cares about local solutions for global problems, dignity and joyful change. #waterisahumanright

Daniela Paredes Grijalva

Daniela loves to connect research, education and practice. Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a DOC-ÖAW Fellow, associate member of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies at the University of Vienna and member of the Global (De)Centre as well as of WIDE-Austria Her work with and experience as a migrant woman in Austria shape her efforts to weave collaborations across groups and sectors to decolonize in both activist and scholarly spaces. With an intersectional lens, her work explores the gender, environmental and social justice struggles as well as colonial legacies and human rights.

David Jablonski

David Jablonski is an independent designer and web developer, a Fridays For Future activist and co-founder of Klimadashboard, a data visualisation project aiming to make the climate crisis tangible.

Eva-Maria Spreitzer

Eva-Maria is a researcher, practitioner, and facilitator of transformative learning and social innovation processes with a passion for working towards ""a change in the conditions of change"" by focusing on how to consciously develop our capacity and capabilities for change, or the way we think, act, and are in the world. She focuses her work on the power and connection of individual transformation for social transformation and strives to gain more insights into the profound effects of reflexive praxis and futures thinking for social change. With a background in the humanities and social sciences, she worked for over 10 years in organizational change, innovation, and strategy projects in the private and public sectors before she returned to dedicate herself to research. She connected her interest in participatory research and social innovation practices at the University of Cambridge focusing on researching social transformation processes. She is currently working at the Swiss Center for Positive Futures at the University of Lausanne and is active in several global and local communities of practice, such as UNESCO’s futures literacy network and Amani Institute, aiming to inquire, explore and co-create experiences and learning opportunities for aligning self and the world more consciously.

Florian Aigner

Florian Aigner obtained a doctorate in theoretical quantum physics at TU Wien (Vienna) before switching to science journalism. He is a newspaper and radio columnist and author of popular science books. He focuses on natural science and technology, but also on the philosophy of science and the relationship between science and pseudoscience or fake news.

Jakub Jahn

Jakub Jahn is a freelance artist and filmmaker uniquely merging various stylistic and genre approaches in his work. He focuses mostly on projects exploring the universe of contemporary and conceptual art. Substantial part of his work are projects based on the findings of positive psychology.

Jiaran Wang

Jiaran is an internationalisation enthusiast, startup & transformation mentor, classical pianist and founder of Artciety GmbH and A MINDFUL BIZ with podcast and pool of experts. She was born in China, came to Vienna at the age of 14 to study music and later business. Jiaran has over 20 years of experience in the creative industry and international communication, over 10 years in personal and business development with focus on international aspects. With her East & West cultural and adaptation experiences, passion for various professional working fields and international experiences, she has supported more than 100 project ideas in Europe and China in many different culture & business areas.

Joanna Power

Product Designer & Social Entrepreneur

Joanna Power is a product designer from the UK with experience in engineering and manufacturing. She is a co-founder of Lylo Products; an eco-startup focused on reducing the UK's water crisis. Since graduating from Brunel University London last year, she has gone on to win numerous awards in entrepreneurship, and is currently the lead designer at Lylo Products.

Karin Schönpflug

Karin Schönpflug works as an economist at Vienna’s Institute for Higher Studies and at Vienna’s University of Applied Sciences. She has been teaching economics, gender and transdisciplinary studies at Universities in Austria, the US and New Zealand. Her research focusses on the socio-economic inclusion and exclusion of queer and marginalized people, and the social costs of violence and discrimination for women, children and the LGBTIQ+ community. She has been connecting feminist economics with utopian approaches and recently she has been working on the gendered, raced and classed effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as connected to coloniality and ecological crises.

Klara König

In "normal times" Klara König would be just a 23-year-old psychology student. A person who grew up in Vienna, with five siblings, with a passion for classical music and who now studies in Graz. But times aren't normal; therefore, she became a climate justice activist within the Firdays for Future movement.

Luna Miray

Musician

16 years from Vienna, young singing talent, new songs coming soon

Nick Meynen

Mapping "terra incognita" was a childhood dream that I realised in 2002, on the rims of crater lakes in Africa. Extra studies in conflicts and journalism brought me to wars, revolution and environmental frontlines: from the Congolese jungle to mines in Bulgaria and Greece and from rural India to Nepal, where I spend 2 years and wrote my first book. I have journalist, author, researcher, lecturer, opinion-maker and lobbyist hats but here’s what I always do: I seek justice, truth and solutions in the space where society and nature rub together in a conflicting way. Since 2014 I do this for Europe’s largest network of environmental citizens’ organisations: the European Environmental Bureau.

Paramveer Bhachu

Paramveer Bhachu is a product designer from the UK with experience in industrial design and branding. He is a co-founder of Lylo Products; an eco-startup focused on reducing the UK's water crisis. Since graduating from Brunel University London last year, he has gone on to win numerous awards in design and entrepreneurship, and is currently an integrated designer at SevenC3.

T21Büne Das Ensemble

T21BÜNE is the first institution for people with trisomy 21 in the field of performing arts (drama and dance).

Vanessa Spanbauer

Vanessa Spanbauer spent more than 10 years in Journalism – creating content for TV, online and print and was editor-in-chief for the magazine fresh – Black Austrian Lifestyle. In addition she works as an historian, doing research regarding Black people in Vienna and colonial objects in federal museums in Austria and working on exhibitions. As an AEWTASS project member, she talks about the image of Africa and Black people in the Austrian educational system and media. In 2021 she held a seminar about media literacy with regard to racism at the University of Vienna.