Marianna Takou

Marianna Takou is a researcher and organizer from Athens, Greece. She is currently based in Utrecht, where she works as a producer, organizer and researcher at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons. She first became part of the ecosystem of Casco as a volunteer in 2013. Since 2019, as part of the team, she has been working on different aspects of Casco’s operations and is a member of the Arts Collaboratory network.

With a background in Sociology and training in International Development, she holds an MSc in Sustainable Development. Her research interests and organizing focus on feminist and queer practices in mobility, migration, the commons and the degrowth momevent. She is a founding member of niet normaal*, a queer collective active in Utrecht and a member of Read-in, a collective that experiments with collective reading and memorizing.

She is a member of the Climate Justice Code working group.