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Marino Sampayo

Country: Switzerland

Cohort: Switzerland 2026

Marino Sampayo is a multidisciplinary artist and sustainability-focused creative producer who trained in Physical Theatre at Accademia Teatro Dimitri and currently an MA student in Dance Movement Psicotherapy (UAB). He founded VESALMAR, a documentary-led platform amplifying ocean and coastal protection, and leads SUSART, an interdisciplinary art–science project developed within Switzerland’s U Change ecosystem exploring body, nature and sustainable development. He is a Swiss Study Foundation scholar, U-Change and Ernst Göhner awardee, and a TEDx changemaker speaker.