NAMI is a cross(in)disciplinary economist, researcher and artist based in Vienna, whose work focuses on exploring and bridging the theory-praxis space, breaking all but planetary boundaries.
NAMI’s artistic work is about fostering affection alliances between institutions, human and non-human actors, for a just socio-ecological economic transformation. NAMI’s work aims not only to demystify the economics universe by translating data into embodied insights, but mainly to explore and uncover the osmosis of systemic economic, historical, cultural, geopolitical dynamics into people’s imaginaries and practises of relating to themselves, others and nature.
NAMI works at the macro, meso and micro levels to facilitate the co-creation of interdisciplinary knowledge for self and collective transformation. As a queer, neurodivergent, anti-monogamist, anti-speciesist, white and multi-linguistic immigrant, NAMI’s work is also partially autobiographical.
NAMI is currently pursuing an MA in Cross-Disciplinary Strategies at Die Angewandte and a MSc in Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy at WU Vienna, complemented by research support at the Ecological Economics Institute at the WU and activist work. With a proven track record in research, data analysis, and project coordination, their professional experience spans across Europe and West Africa, with roles in international organizations, NGOs, consulting, and academia, focusing on topics related to economic development.
NAMI is very open to new collaborations, materials and methodologies! Working and exploring currently textiles, print-making, sculptures, mixed-media, sound & video, kinetic and site-specific arts, community-participatory art, text-based art, performance, trauma-informed, consent based somatic practises. Interested in exploring more in biology, chemistry, ecology, cognitive science, engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Scientific Interests in the fields of political ecology, degrowth, unequal exchange, decolonization, ecologies, extractivism, world systems, labour economics, international trade, distribution and inequalities, North-South dynamics, intersectional feminism, trauma, transformative justice, anarchism, pleasure activism, intimacy, imaginaries and education.