Melissa Schwarz is a German interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher, based between London and Berlin, whose practice spans critical ecology, speculative futures, and investigative design. Working with digital media, installation, field research, and collaborative methodologies, she examines how bodies, landscapes, technologies, and infrastructures shape one another. 

Through an ontological lens, her work asks how concepts of nature, the body, and place are constructed, and how they shift through ecological and technological entanglements. Informed by posthumanism, hauntology, critical ecology, and investigative aesthetics, she approaches hybridity as both a condition and a method for encountering complex sites. 

Her current project, Hybridity Mapping Toolkit, investigates the instability of distinctions such as natural and artificial, human and non-human, or biological and technological, through several postindustrial sites in Berlin. The toolkit, as a collection of methods, develops through situated fieldwork, theoretical inquiry, observation, conversation, and collective experimentation.

At GlogauAIR, Schwarz invites visitors to question the categories through which we perceive ourselves and our surroundings. Rather than offering a fixed representation, the project proposes methods for noticing interdependence, ambiguity, and multiple forms of agency within worlds that are continuously becoming.