Helene Romakin is a cultural scientist and independent curator. She is co-founder and curator of several collaborative contemporary art projects such as LET THERE BE_ in Berlin and ~ tilde in Zurich. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Chair of History of Art and Architecture at ETH Zurich on the topic of visual culture, material strategies, and speculative storytelling in the era of the Anthropocene. With Berit Seidel, she developed the seminar “Protect Us From What We Want,” an investigation into the meaning of the research expeditions and dreams in the Anthropocene at ETH Zurich.