
In 2025, Swissnex invited thinkers, artists, and researchers under 30 to imagine a “planetary diplomacy,” a new way of engaging with the more-than-human world. From December 2025 to May 2026, Swissnex in Boston will exhibit showcasing four visionary projects selected from over 100 submissions from around the world. From speculative lawmaking to trans-species cohabitation, from listening to the Earth’s rhythms to learning from mangroves, these projects open portals to futures where care, empathy, and ecological intelligence shape diplomacy.
Featured works include:
- I am Earth by Abhinay “Renny” Thummaluru | Five empty chairs, representing nature and natural elements, invite us to imagine a time when we deeply listen to the Earth, to nature, and to the silent signals already all around us.
- Blutpilz: Systems of Care in Mycelium Structures by Sulamith Tamborriello | A year-long living collaboration between the artist and a slime mold, exploring processes of codependency?, symbiosis?, and transformation?.
- Imagining the Futures of Rights of Nature by Lydia Dai, Beniamin Strzelecki, Genaro Matías Godoy González, Iqra Bano, and Pierre Mikhiel | A series of narratives envisioning pathways from today’s property-based paradigm toward futures where ecosystems are recognized as legal and political subjects.
- Tidal Movements: Thinking with the Mangrove by Yassine Rachidi — A text installation examining the mangroves of Lamu, Kenya, as fascinating biotopes and living metaphors, exploring how their intricate ecosystems can inform alternative understandings of urban growth, with water as medium of relation and encounter.
The exhibition is part of Swissnex’s Planetary Embassy in Boston, a six-month series transforming Switzerland’s science and technology consulate into a laboratory for planetary diplomacy, featuring talks, film screenings, and more.
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Yassine Rachidi
Tidal MovementsYassine Rachidi is a multi-disciplinary artist, living and working between Basel (CH) and Casablanca (MA), interested in exploring the complex intersection between spatial imaginaries and built landscapes. Splitting his practice between the academic and the artistic, he questions – through writing, photography, and filmmaking – the emerging materialities, temporalities, and spatial identities that unfold through processes of construction, speculation, and adaptation.
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Sulamith Tamborriello
BlutpilzSulamith Tamborriello’s artistic practice revolves around intersections where ecological crisis, climate justice, and political participation meet. Working with transdisciplinary research and collective action, she creates demonstrations, participatory exhibitions, and interactive readings that often give rise to artistic objects serving as catalysts for further dialogue. Her work seeks to connect human and non-human forms of life through living processes of care. She currently lives, studies, and works in Zurich.
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Abhinay Thummaluru
I am EarthAbhinay, also known as Abhinay Renny, is a Swiss-based Indian artist whose recent works explore intersections of climate justice, cultural memory and technological disruption. With a background in Engineering and International relations, his artistic practice merges visual storytelling with field-based inquiry, often using painting, installation, and digital media to address the themes of ecological loss along with displacement and identity. Abhinay’s work has been featured in several exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany & India. He has also authored 4 books and contributed to multiple anthologies.
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Beniamin Strzelecki
Imagining the Futures of Rights of NatureBeniamin Strzelecki is a former Youth Advisor on Climate Change to the UN Secretary-General. Throughout his eight years of advocacy in the climate and energy sector, Beniamin has worked extensively within the COP process and other UN platforms. He was also a member of high-level panels convened by the IEA and IRENA.
His leadership roles include co-founding the SDG7 Youth Constituency, the largest network of youth organisations working on energy transition with 1,200+ members, and leading organisation of Student Energy Summit 2023, the world’s largest student conference on energy transition that brought together 600+ young people from 130+ countries at COP28.
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Genaro Matías Godoy González
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Iqra Bano
Imagining the Futures of Rights of NatureIqra Bano is an Experience Designer interested in how people, technology, and the environment shape one another. Her work combines psychology, environmental studies, and interactive media to explore new ways of seeing and relating to the world around us.
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Lydia Dai
Imagining the Futures of Rights of NatureLydia Dai is a Swiss multilateral environmental policy specialist working at the nexus of adaptation, nature, and finance. She has advised a small island delegation on adaptation and finance negotiations at three consecutive UN climate negotiations, and has worked with the UNFCCC and the WMO on climate adaptation and youth. Through the High-Level Champions’ Race to Resilience campaign, she worked on non-state actor mobilization and contributed to resilience metrics development. She is currently Vice President of Swiss Youth for Climate. Lydia is pursuing an MSc in Environmental Sciences and Policy at ETH Zurich and holds a First-Class Honours degree from University College London.
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Pierre Mikhiel
Imagining the Futures of Rights of NaturePierre Mikhiel is an XR developer and designer studying Interactive Media at New York University, with minors in Film and Computer Science. His work explores the intersections of immersive media, storytelling, and environmental sustainability, with projects ranging from VR music performance and kinetic installations to interactive experiences linking the physical and virtual. He has also worked on game development, user experience design, and the integration of emerging technologies such as AI and AR in creative practice.







