Originally from Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, she now lives by the North Sea coast in Scotland. Zamuruieva has a decade of experience working at the intersection of research, climate policy, and creative practice. Whilst in Edinburgh, Zamuruieva worked on climate and land policy at the sustainability charity Verture. She is also a co-editor of the Commons Journal.
Zamuruieva’s creative work often begins with an interest in a particular topic which then following feminist STS-inspired methods implodes through archival and media research, ethnographic and autoethnographic fieldwork, photography, essayistic writing, performative gatherings, reading groups, workshops. Disciplinarily she draws on political ecology, ecofeminism studies, cultural geography as well as environmental history and anthropology.
Across her work Zamuruieva is interested in how we pay attention to historical, political and ecological entanglements, questions of resistance and complicity, and the material and symbolic relations between language and landscape.
See Zamuruieva’s recent interview for KoozArch for an overview of her recent work. See this page for a list of most recent writings.
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Talks, lectures and workshops
A Landscape, Simplified, panel presentation, Oxford Ukraine Hub, Oxford University, 2025
A Greasy Frontier, an Ouroboros of Oil, panel presentation, RUTA, 2025
Climate change between war and agriculture, panel presentation at the Violence fast and slow: war, colonialism and climate change panel, Intersections of the Peripheries Conference, Commons Journal, 2024
Artistic research methods, lecture and workshop for the Echoes of the Earth participating residency artists, ∄, 2024
Photographic methods for learning landscape histories, presentation at “Environment and War: Historical Perspectives and Modern Challenges”, talk, part of Historians and the War: Rethinking the Future. 2024
A Field From Afar, panel presentation, Between the Local and the Global: Unpacking Environmental History of Ukraine, Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2024
Nature as Weapon, panel presentation, Correct Mistakes, The Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2024
What we gather, colloquium presentation, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, 2024
Photography in Land Relations, artist talk, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, Scotland, 2024
What we gather, herbal gathering workshop and lecture on ecofeminism, together with Zsófia Szonja Illés, RUTA Conference, 2024
Resisting Ukrainian ecocide through ecofeminism: a woman, a plant, a colour, panel presentation, Voices from Ukraine: Women Philosophers and Scientists Against War and Ecocide, conference, University of Paderborn, Germany, 2023
Find me dream-walking in the steppes, tea ceremony and a reading, Living-with Feral Ecologies. A Festival, Helsinki Design Week, Finland, 2023
Feral Policy: how can creative practitioners and policy-makers work together for multi-species governance?, panel discussion, Uroboros Festival, Prague, Czechia, 2022
Creatives in an era of climate emergency, panel discussion with Creative Carbon Scotland and Creative Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2022
i dream to see the steppe again, performative reading, tea ceremony and workshop, together with Darya Tsymbalyuk, Sett Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2022
Pig Mourning Ceremony, together with Elliot Hurst, commissioned by UNFIX Festival (Glasgow, Scotland) and Uroboros (Czech/international), 2021
Baltic Sea Lab: How creative practices can support sea health, panel discussion, CreaTures, 2021
(Post)capitalist ecologies: nurturing different futures, lecture and workshop for the Left Perspectives Summer School, Ukraine, 2021
Ecofeminisms, lecture and workshop for the Theories for Practice Feminist School at the Feminist Workshop (Феміністична майстерня), Ukraine, 2021
Climate Art Labs co-curators and participants reflections, part of Art-Sereda (Art Wednesday) artist talks programmes at Izolyatsiya, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020
Reimagining socionatural assemblages in the Anthropocene through a Nature Theater, panel presentation, Art in the Anthropocene International Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2019
Art, geography & socionatures, panel presentation, The New Cultural Geography Conference XIV, Bayreuth, Germany, 2017
Exhibitions, residencies, fellowships
Institute for Human Sciences, IWM [research fellowship], Ukraine in European Dialogue, working on A Field from Afar project, 2024Uncertain Futures [artist residency and exhibition] organised by Salt Space and hosted by Street Level Photoworks, working with environmental histories through film photography, Glasgow, Scotland, 2023-2024
care infrastructures [curator] an exhibition and public programme for the One Night Public Gallery, Sopot, Poland, 2021
School for Civic Imagination [artist residency], autonomous art learning programme with a focus on socially and ecologically engaged art. Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland 2019-2020
Landscape as a Monument [artist residency], Izolyatsiya, Ukraine, 2020
Climate Art Labs [curator], interdisciplinary art-science-activism residency exploring climate change in Ukraine, 2018-2019
Extraordinary Climate Movement [curator together with Sasha Dolgiy], exhibition and public programme of events of the Climate Art Labs, Chernivtsi & Kyiv, Ukraine 2019
The Office, [exhibited work], together with Elliot Hurst part of XR Summerhall: Act Now, Edinburgh, Scotland 2019
Where Do We Go From Here? [exhibited work], Visions and Reflections: Our Shared Environment, Izolyatsiya, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2017
Einweg Erfahrungen, [curator] socially-engaged photographic project and exhibition, Werkstatt für kreative Unruhe and Stadtbücherei Kiel, Germany, 2016
Education
Education
MSc Sustainability, Society and the Environment, University of Kiel, 2016
BSc Ecology, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 2013
Employment
Employment
2018 – December 2024: Verture, Senior Climate Resilience Manager. Worked directly with communities on climate change impacts and adaptation strategies; and with policy makers in Scotland and the UK on ensuring climate justice and vulnerabilities underpin policy choices. Led place-based & transformational creative practices projects, such as:
- Land Use and Climate Change Adaptation in Scotland – led the full-cycle research design, development, analysis and formulation of policy recommendations to the Scottish Government, informing key legislation such as Scottish National Adaptation Plan, the Land Reform Bill and the Agriculture Bill
- CreaTures – led policy-practice exchanges between creative practitioners and the UK policy-makers; coordinated the production of the CreaTures Framework. See peer-reviewed article.
- Community Climate Adaptation Routemap, via Adaptation Scotland – conceptualized and led the production of the Routemap to support community groups in climate adaptation planning. Delivered workshops to support its implementation.
- Scottish National Adaptation Plan 2024-2029 – conceptualized and led community engagement events.
- Climate Ready Localities – led adaptation Scotland's community-focused work, including mapping local climate impacts and working with stakeholders to find and fund solutions (see for example Climate Ready Ken)
- Climate Ready Clyde – coordinated policy activities and co-designed the theory of change for a regional climate adaptation program.
2018: Federal Centre for Political Education (bpb), Consultant, Berlin, Germany
2017: labconcepts, Sustainability events coordinator, Berlin, Germany
2015 – 2017: Cultural Geography working group, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Student assistant, Kiel, Germany
2014 – 2015: School for Civic Environmental Activists, Coordinator, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 – 2014: Let’s do it Ukraine, Government relations coordinator, Kyiv, Ukraine
Photo credit:
Ievgeniia Vilkova