Anna Colin is an independent curator, educator, researcher and gardener. She is engaged with critical pedagogy, ecocentric social practice, alternative modes of instituting, institutional time, and participatory landscaping. Anna directs the MFA Curating and co-directs the Centre for Art Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was a co-founder and director (2013-21), of Open School East, an independent art school and community space in London then Margate. Anna holds a PhD in cultural geography and is currently training in arboriculture. She is the author of Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization (Villa Arson and Sternberg Press, 2025).