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MONU (Magazine on Urbanism) is a unique annual international forum for architects, urbanists and theorists that are working on urban topics. MONU focuses on the city in a broad sense, including its politics, economy, geography, ecology, its social aspects, as well as its physical structure and architecture. Therefore architecture is one of many fields covered by the magazine - fields which are all brought together under the catch-all term “urbanism”. MONU is edited in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Continuous publication began in June 2004. From 2004 until 2020 MONU was published twice a year and since 2021 it appears once a year. MONU is an independent, non-conformist, niche publication that collects critical articles, images, concepts, and urban theories from contributors from around the world on a given topic.

MONU examines topics that are important to the future of our cities and urban regions from a variety of perspectives and provides a platform for comparative analysis. The different viewpoints, contexts and methods of analysis allow for an exploration of various topics in a rich fashion. The combination of the writings and projects created within different cultures and from different professional backgrounds generates new insights in the complex phenomena connected to cities. MONU functions as a platform for the exchange of ideas and thus constitutes a collective intelligence on urbanism.

MONU has been recognized already as one of the most innovative and progressive magazines in its field and has been part of an open workspace at the documenta 12 - one of the world's most important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art in summer 2007. MONU was invited as part of the documenta's magazines project. Recently MONU has been exhibited at places such as London (Architectural Association), New York (Storefront), Madrid (Casa Encendida), Berlin (do you read me?!), and Tokyo (Omotesando Hills).

MONU was founded and is directed by editor in chief Bernd Upmeyer together with his Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD) and managed by MONU's managing and contributing editor Beatriz Ramo. MONU is published by the Rotterdam-based Board Publishers. Bernd Upmeyer studied architecture and urban design at the University of Kassel (Germany) and the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands). Before opening his own practice (BOARD) in Rotterdam in the year 2005, he worked in several Dutch architecture offices, including NL Architects and Bosch Architects. From 2004 until 2008 he taught and did research as Assistant Professor at the department for Urban and Architectural Studies at the University of Kassel. In 2010 he taught as Adjunct Professor at the department of Urban Design at the HafenCity University Hamburg. From 2012 until 2016 Upmeyer and his office BOARD were part of the group, led by STAR - strategies and architecture, that has been chosen as one of the new six teams of architects and urban planners appointed by the Atelier International Grand Paris (AIGP) to be part of the Scientific Committee for the mission: Grand Paris: pour une métropole durable. Upmeyer holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel (Germany). He is the author of the book Binational Urbanism – On the Road to Paradise. The book examines the way of life of people who start a second life in a second city in a second nation-state, without saying goodbye to their first city. Upmeyer coined the term “binational urbanism”. Since 2021 Upmeyer teaches architectural theory as Adjunct Professor at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf.

MONU maintains an editorial board of experts and advisors that include Floris Alkemade, Andre Kempe, Felix Madrazo, Simone De Iacobis, Stefan Gruber, David Karle, Beatriz Ramo, and Bernd Upmeyer.


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(December 10, 2018)

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(http://archidose.blogspot.com/2010/11/magazine-review-monu-13.html)
(November 2, 2010)

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Interview with Bernd Upmeyer, editor in chief of MONU - magazine on urbanism in June 2009. The questions were posed by Luca Vandini from the University of Ferrara, Italy.

Luca Vandini: When was MONU born, how and why did you decide to give life to this kind of experimental magazine?
Bernd Upmeyer: The idea came up in 2003, but the first issue appeared a bit later, in the summer of 2004. Originally it was conceived as a way to keep in touch with a friend of mine. We studied together in Kassel, but in 2002 at the end of our degrees, we decided to take different routes: I came to the Netherlands, and he moved to the United States. We were searching for a way to keep in contact, and continue to intellectually challenge ourselves, as we did during our studies.

LV: "MONU" - the title of your magazine is an acronym, where the U stands for Urbanism. Does this refer to the phenomenon or to the field of studies? In other words, is MONU more about urban phenomena or about discussions inside the urbanism discipline?
BU: MONU is more about urban phenomena. What we were aiming at since the very beginning was to explore every kind of urban aspects, everything that appears around the city. We were always intrigued to find out the hidden political, social and economical truths and interdependencies in cities. Nevertheless I could still imagine one day making an issue on traditional topics, such as space and density. The great thing about using the city as a subject is that it allows you to talk about almost everything, and that is what really attracted us since the very beginning.

LV: The choice to publish an entire magazine about urbanism is quite particular in a world overloaded with interior, landscape or architecture publications. Does this choice arise only from a personal feeling, is it a way to fill up a presumed lack, or does it stand on a modernist conception that sees urbanism coming before and going beyond architecture?
BU: I think that this choice has a lot to do with the kind of education I received at the University of Kassel, where I studied in the nineties. There, even if you were a student of architecture, like me, you were always forced to start thinking large-scale. For whatever design we had to do there, we were always asked to think not only about the urban context, but also about the city as a whole. I think that this start to every design really shaped my mind and has been projected onto MONU. At the beginning I thought this way of being trained as an architect was cutting away a lot of interesting aspects, as I originally started studying architecture in order to design first of all architectural objects and not cities. But after a while I understood the power and the potential of this interdisciplinary design approach, and as you can see I am no longer able to escape from it. In Kassel as an architecture student I was more or less forced to do projects together with urban design and landscape design students. Therefore the urban scale became the basis of our discussions.

LV: Every issue of MONU has a title or topic that puts a different adjective or noun next to the word "Urbanism". Why did you make this choice? Do you think you will be able to keep going on this way forever?
BU: Everything started with the topic of the first issue entitled "Paid Urbanism". Paid Urbanism was originally a University project. It was based on the idea of paying people to appear in public spaces that are deserted after shops were closed. We created the "Paid Urbanism Project" to inject artificially life into dead urban areas. It was a reaction to the conditions that we witnessed in the city centre of Kassel after 5 p.m. What was at the beginning only a joke to entertain ourselves as students, became more serious with the time and finally ended up as the topic of the very first issue of MONU. The second issue we wanted to deal with the middle classes and their impact on cities and spontaneously decided to continue with the term "Urbanism" in the title and called the issue "Middle Class Urbanism". After that it became a routine and continues until today. At the beginning we had of course a lot of doubts about using again and again the term urbanism, but we also started appreciating the power of its repetition.

LV: What is the idea behind the "call for submissions"?
BU: This device of "call for submissions" was based since the beginning on the realization that the view of one person is limited. We wanted to open the magazine to different and changing perspectives. We realized that it was not very interesting if every issue would be written by always the same people. So we decided to focus on diversity as the core of the magazine. I believe this way helps MONU to stay fresh.

LV: Can you explain a bit more in depth what the role of the editor in chief of a magazine like MONU is?
BU: The idea is that the editor in chief has to be a sort of moderator, who initiates topics. Like in a conference, congress, or debate the moderator throws the ball and helps it to go as far as possible. You create a topic and hope for interesting reactions that together make the magazine. But one of the most interesting parts of that process is that the result is unpredictable and usually also for me surprising and unexpected. I always learn a lot of new things. That is very exciting and challenging for me. The involvement of different perspectives of different authors always creates something that was not completely intended at the beginning. The calls for submissions are always very speculative and are mostly led by a hope that a topic really might have potential.

LV: In MONU #10 you borrowed the work of an artist for the cover page. What is the role in the magazine of other disciplines such as art; is MONU a publication that is trying to go beyond urbanism or does it look more inside the phenomenon itself?
BU: The integration of more art work is also based on the belief in the quality of diversity and the quality of different perspectives that lead eventually to a greater understanding of things.

LV: Let's talk a bit about the structure of MONU. Your magazine, for example, lacks the classic editorial and doesn't have any periodical column. Why is that?
BU: Actually there is always an editorial. On the first page I always write an editorial that describes and explains the content. It is an overview of the most interesting and most relevant contributions to the magazine. It is a sort of summary that allows you to understand what that issue is made of. Maybe when you talk about an editorial you expect a traditional small article, were the editor gives his personal view on the matter. We stopped writing such editorials after the second issue, because we didn't want to appear too heavy. Magazine editorials can become easily too self-referential. We wanted simply to provide a wide overview of what you could find inside. I think my point of view appears strong enough through the selection of the published pieces and the selection of the topic. I don't think that I need a specific article to express it. I don't want to constrict the audience to bear my opinion every time. What I find most annoying in typical architecture magazines is to be confronted all the time with the very particular opinion of the editor in chief that enjoys too much expressing himself and his view on things. I really want to avoid that. MONU is not about me, it is about its topics.

LV: Moving to a more general approach, what do you think is the role of written words in contemporary urbanism?
BU: Thinking about something is different from thinking and writing about something, because writing helps you to organize ideas and to discover new aspects. Writing is like placing a lot of pieces on a table, assembling them and finding relations between them. When you write about things you are able to connect things that cannot be connected or understood in a conversation. It is a bit like in a design process, where you start with some rules that get transformed during the development of the project. Something new and unforeseen can happen and you get the chance to learn more about certain topics. To find out more about cities is one of the main motivations to produce a magazine like MONU.

LV: If you should engage in some self-criticism, what aspect or point of MONU would you consider less powerful?
BU: I think MONU is way too ambitious and too meaningful for a magazine. MONU is not easy to consume and is therefore not meant to reach a huge audience. MONU is damned to stay small. But although it makes it very difficult to survive, I would not be interested in making it more superficial only for the sake of reaching a greater audience.


MONU is collaborating with contributors from all over the world. The collaborators of the most recent issues include:

Maria Reitano, Mark Gottdiener, Sharon Zukin, Bernd Upmeyer, Richard Plunz, Andrés Álvarez-Dávila, Tatjana Schneider, Christoffer Jusélius, Helen Runting, Constanze Wolfgring, Nuria Ribas Costa, Valentina Rizzi, Bharat Sikka, Francisco Silva, Tatjana Crossley, Serafina Amoroso, Maxime Matthys, Brian Holland, Agnes Katharina Müller, Izaskun Chinchilla, Paul Kalbfleisch, Ying Zhou, Mingming Zhao, Mark Wigley, Bernd Upmeyer, Marco Enia, Flavio Martella, Akoaki, Anya Sirota, Jean Louis Farges, Nick Dunn, Dan Dubowitz, Wijdane Esseffah, Ana Morcillo Pallares, Paul Cetnarski, Isabelle Pateer, Elian Somers, Maria Reitano, Nikolaus Gartner, MARS at PBSA, Avsar Gürpinar, Nur Horsanali, Cansu Cürgen, Rupal Rathore, Maarten Willemstein, Dan Hill, bplus.xyz, Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert, Tiphaine Abenia, Marcello Carpino, Vittoria Poletto, Ian Nazareth, David Schwarzman, Anthony Reed,Mabel O. Wilson, Bernd Upmeyer, Jeffrey Hou, Cansu Cürgen, Avsar Gürpinar, APP (Archive of Public Protest), Ben Parry, Maddy Weavers, Dillon Webster, Ece Yetim, Ulrich Lebeuf, Liana Kuyumcuyan, Hans Pruijt, Nurul Azreen Azlan, Becky Luk, Ching Kan, Bing Guan, Ana Miriam Rebelo, Heitor Alvelos, Cécile Houpert, Aaron Kalfen, Benjamin van Loon, Mario Matamoros, Sebastian Oviedo, Jeroen Stevens, Viviana d'Auria, Beatriz Colomina, Bernd Upmeyer, Ana Morcillo Pallares, Jessica Bridger, Peter Dench, Dalia Munenzon, Yair Titelboim, Michaela Litsardaki, Eventually Made, Sebastian Bernardy, Vincent Meyer Madaus, Ian Nazareth, Conrad Hamann, Rosemary Heyworth, Carmelo Ignaccolo, Ayan Meer, Nadia Shira Cohen, Richard Sennett, Jan Fransen, Daniela Ochoa Peralta, Alexander Jachnow, Kuba Snopek, Joshua Yates, Janna Hohn, Leticia Sabino, Louise Uchôa, Anna Rita Emili, Michele Cerruti But, Pedro Pitarch, Jörn Walter, Bernd Upmeyer, Sasha Plotnikova, Christopher de Vries, Richard Florida, Savia Palate, Anne Mie Depuydt, Ellen Donnelly, Marc Maxey, David Schalliol, Steffan Robel, Fani Kostourou, Cecily Chua, Elahe Karimnia, Nate Bicak, Matthias Lamberts, Ken Vervaet, Jeroen Stevens, Bruno De Meulder, Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, María Arquero de Alarcón, Luciana Nicolau Ferrara, Benedito Roberto Barbosa, Tanzil Shafique, Will Hartley, DK Osseo-Asare, Jonathan Tate, John Doyle, Graham Crist, Scott Lloyd, Alexis Kalagas, Nemanja Zimonjic, Karla Rothstein, Bernd Upmeyer, Miguel Candela, Omar Kassab, Mostafa Youssef, David Charles Sloane, Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre, Sébastien Roy, Carlton Basmajian, Christopher Coutts, Sybil Tong, Julie Rugg, Nicole Hanson, Katrina Spade, Nienke Hoogvliet, James Norris, Andréia Martins van den Hurk, Cameron Jamie, Monica Hutton, Anya Domlesky, Bruno De Meulder, Kelly Shannon, Elissaveta Marinova, Deane Simpson, Bernd Upmeyer, Peter Granser, Hannah Wood, Benjamin Wells, Frits van Dongen, Nicolò Calandrini, Anuschka Kutz, Rachel Marlene Kauder, Luca Brunelli, Chris Phillipson, Rafael Luna, Arjen Born, Julienne Gage, BETA, Junya Ishigami, Jack Sardeson, Apple Yi Jiang, Matthias Hollwich, Hanne van der Woude, Cassim Shepard, Omar Kassab, MAP Office, Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix, Pierre Huyghe, INDA, Alicia Lazzaroni, Antonio Bernacchi, Nick Dunn, Dan Dubowitz, Cameron McEwan, Lorens Holm, Lorenzo Lazzari, Tiago Torres-Campos, Design Earth, Seda Yildiz, Amila Širbegovic, Carolyn Drake, Kathleen Gmyrek, WAI Architecture Think Tank, Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski, Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Inge Goudsmit, Amelyn Ng, Phil Roberts, Benjamin van Loon, Beatriz Ramo, Nigel Ostime, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Leewardists, Iulia Hurducas, Aras Gökten, Azadeh Zaferani, Tom Marble, Tanzil Shafique, Nate Bicak, Tommaso Raimondi, Paolo Romanò, Djamel Aït-Aïssa, Jon Kandel, Stefan Paeleman, Benjamin Zagami, Ruth Jones, Jennifer Davis, Nicholas Pajerski, GruppoTorto, Nicole Lambrou, Jeffrey Kruth, Liz Teston, Colin Davies, Ana Medina, Víctor Cano Ciborro, Stephan Petermann, Avar Gürpnar, Nur Horsanal, Levi Bryant, Kyle Miller, Masha Hupalo, Hester van Gent, Slinkachu, Julian Oliver, Benedetta Marani, Nicholas de Monchaux, James Longfield, STAR strategies + architecture, Beatriz Ramo, BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design), Nadine Botha, Joshua Bolchover, Fabiano Micocci, Marco Casagrande, Lars Lerup, Bernd Upmeyer, David Karle, Caitlin Tangeman, Ian Caine, STAR strategies + architecture, BOARD, Bernd Belina, Roger Keil, Mario Matamoros, Floris Alkemade, Carlo Pisano, Yannis Tzaninis, Maarten Gheysen, Kris Scheerlinck, Erik Van Daele, Keller Easterling, Judith K. De Jong, Michael Wolf, Rugile Ropolaite, Ivan Valin, Natalia Echeverri, Constantina Theodorou, Alexandros Zomas, Mara Papavasileiou, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Fabio Franz, Hannes Langguth, Mark Power, Jasna Mariotti, Gruia Badescu, Kai Vöckler, Jonas König, Alexander Kleibrink, Arnis Balcus, Tomas Grunskis, Milda Paceviciute, Burak Pak, Bart Lootsma, Dijana Vuinic, Marco Scarpinato, Martynas Mankus, Thomas Cole, Julien Lombardi, Florence Twu, Suzanne Harris-Brandts, Joseph Godlewski, Claire Lubell, Gvido Princis, Sandra Parvu, Julia Autz, Andrés Jaque, Sander Hölsgens, Justinien Tribillon, CENTRALA, Simone De Iacobis, Magorzata Kuciewicz, Aleksandra Kedziorek, Lucía Jalón Oyarzun, Luca Lazzarini, åyr, Fabrizia Berlingieri, Aron Bohmann, Charlotte Herbst, Cookies, Nele Aernouts, Sofie Van der Linden, Ersela Kripa, Stephen Mueller, Ioanna Piniara, Neeraj Bhatia, Christopher A. Roach, Casco, Jasna Mariotti, STAR strategies + architecture, Julia Gatley, Marco Moro, Simone Ferreli, Herman Hertzberger, Jeremy Till, Carolyn Sponza, Gonzalo J López, Verena Lenna, Moana Heussler, Peter Jenni, Stefan Kurath, Uta Gelbke, Nina Gribat, Hannes Langguth, Mario Schulze, Damon Rich, Stefan Gruber, Nele Aernouts, Thomas Decreus, Andrea Spreafico, Marina Abramovic, Tom Marble, [SIC], [VIC], Luis Eduardo González, Serafina Amoroso, Sheryl-Ann Simpson, Jaffer Kolb, Anya Sirota, Cathy Smith, Jean-Louis Missika, Merve Bedir, Antonio Petrov, Maier Yagod, Kolar Aparna, Justin Hui, Laura M. Henneke, Malte Wandel, Bernd Upmeyer, Pepijn Bakker, Rutger Huiberts, Thomas Mical, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Yehre Suh, Agatino Rizzo, Kyle Hovenkotter, Trevor Lamphier, Zoé Renaud, Ulf Hannerz, Giovanni Matteo Cudin, Paul Currion, Matilde Igual Capdevila, Jonathan A. Scelsa, Amin Alsaden, Colleen Tuite, Brendan Cormier, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Mireille Roddier, Keith Mitnick, Winy Maas, Beatriz Ramo, Bernd Upmeyer, Jesse Vogler, Michael Piper, James Khamsi, Candida Höfer, Shriya Malhotra, Serafina Amoroso, Christiane Lange, Susanne Trumpf, Michelle Xiaohong Ling, Inge Goudsmit, Adrienne Simons, Petra Blaisse, Judith K. De Jong, David Karle, Kyle Reynolds, Jordan Hicks, Nikos Katsikis, Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy, Michaël Oliveira, David Morison, Bernardo Secchi, Bernd Upmeyer, Jessica Bridger, Neyran Turan, Felipe Orensanz, Roger Hubeli, Edward Burtynsky, Thomas Kohlwein, Kees Lokman, Ryan Dewey, Lucas Correa-Sevilla, Pablo Pérez Ramos, Maider Uriarte Idiazabal, Sean Burkholder, Bradford Watson, Christopher de Vries, Clare Lyster, Bart Lootsma, Antoine Grumbach, Beatriz Ramo, Bernd Upmeyer, Anton Ivanov, Fabrizia Berlingieri, Manuela Triggianese, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), Calvin Chua, McLain Clutter, Malgorzata Kuciewicz, Simone De Iacobis, Tom Marble, OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), Clément Blanchet, Rob Holmes, Christopher Marcinkoski, Hannah Hunt Moeller, Ognen Marina, James Khamsi, Emily A. Goldman, Panos Dragonas, Petros Phokaides, Iris Polyzos, Loukas Triantis, Julie Bogdanowicz, Jennifer W. Leung, Rikhard Manninen, Flavien Menu, Martin Abbott, Rainer Langhans, Bernd Upmeyer, Lisa Hirmer, Travis K. Bost, Eric Höweler, Alfredo Andia, Yasmine Abbas, Lara Jaillon, Thomas Watkin, Onnis Luque, Matas Šiupšinskas, Jason Reblando; Ernst Gruber, Sylvain De Bleeckere, Sebastiaan Gerards, Maier Yagod, Freddy Kahana, Atelier 5, STAR strategies + architecture, BOARD, Ling Fan, John Joseph Burns, Adam Holland, Michaël Oliveira, Richard Sennett, Joel Garreau, Saskia Sassen, Hajir Alttahir, Kai van Hasselt, Martin Abbott, Mathieu Mercuriali, Federica Vazzana, Domenico Paparelli, Studio Lunik, Paola Favoino, Manuel Alvarez Diestro, Adam Bobbette, Meredith Miller, Etienne Turpin, Ali Fard, Ghazal Jafari, Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Brian Lee, Nida Rehman, Kathleen Cayetano, Onur Ekmekci, Hyeri Park, Paolo Patelli, Kunlé Adeyemi, Aram Tanis, Kees Christiaanse, Beatriz Ramo, Bernd Upmeyer, Hester van Gent, Edward William Soja, Jessica Bridger, Brian Gaberman, Oswald Devisch, Tom Marble, Mike Crang, Stephen Graham, Domenico Di Siena, Manon Bublot, Clark Thenhaus, Eduard Sancho Pou, Sabine Höpfner, Stefan Canham,Scott Herring, Benjamin Beller, Ilya F. Maharika, Gayuh Winisudaningtyas, Agatino Rizzo, David Karle, Wouter Vanstiphout, Beatriz Ramo, Bernd Upmeyer, Patty Heyda, Thomas Ruff, Samir El Kordy, Ying Zhou, Brendan M. Lee, Adrià Carbonell, Fredrik Torisson, DoUC (Department of Unusual Certainties), Brendan Cormier, Christopher Pandolfi, Simon Rabyniuk, Nathalie Frankowski, Cruz García, WAI (What About It?), Michael Hirschbichler, Robin van den Akker, Timotheus Vermeulen, Gale Fulton, Stewart Hicks, Mika Savela, Wes Wilson, Geoffrey Thün, Kathy Velikov, Colin Ripley, RVTR, Melissa Dittmer, James Witherspoon, Noah Resnick, UNION3, Felix Madrazo, Alexander Sverdlov, Marieke Kums, Arman Akdogan, Anastassia Smirnova, Henk Ovink, Simone Pizzagalli, OMA, Rem Koolhaas, Ippolito Pestellini, Beatriz Ramo, Lucas Dean, Jarrik Ouburg, Sara Hendren, Sean Burkholder, Adolfo Natalini, Bernd Upmeyer, STAR strategies + architecture, Marinke Steenhuis, Paul Meurs, Jan Bovelet, Miodrag Kuc, Ephraim Joris, Michiel van Iersel, Juha van 't Zelfde, Ben Cerveny, Gijs Hoofs, Michiel Daalmans, Brian Davis, Rob Holmes, Brett Milligan, Patrizia Di Monte, Floris Alkemade, Adriaan Geuze, Jaap van den Bout, Piet Vollaard, Mika Savela, Melissa Dittmer, Amy Bos,Bobby Shen, Luciano Alfaya, Patricia Muñiz, Karin Aue, Jeffrey Koh, Human Wu, Bas van der Horst, Hans Larsson, Michiel van Loon, Ruraigh Purcell, Bernd Upmeyer, Klaas Kresse, Matthew Johnson, Hans Frei, John Southern, Jürgen Krusche, Jennifer W. Leung, Karl Beelen, Roos Gerritsen, A. Srivathsan, DoUC, Brendan Cormier, Christopher Pandolfi, Stefan Gruber, Jason Lee, Doreen Jakob, Mammoth, Stephen Becker, Rob Holmes, Karl Johann Hakken, Maximilian Mendel, Yim Dongwoo, Rustam Mehta, Thomas Moran, Carol Moukheiber; McLain Clutter; Randall Teal, Magriet Smit, Joyce Hwang, Bjarke Ingels, Beatriz Ramo, Simone De Iacobis, Arjan Harbers, Topotronic, Daan Roggeveen, Michiel Hulshof, Bas Princen, Marta Relats, ZUS, Andre Kempe, MVRDV, Samo Pedersen, Matteo Muggianu, Nikonus Pappas, Jacob Boswell, Nathalie Frankowski, Cruz García, John Southern, Tomorrow’sThoughtsToday, Liam Young, Lee Altman, Greg Keeffe, Simon Swietochowski, OMA, Felipe Correa, Claudio Astudillo Barra, Aleksander Tokarz, Amanda Webb, Rogier van den Berg, Bryan Norwood, The Jackson Community Design Center, Daniel Hadley, Brian A Shabaglian, Colin Davies, NL Architects, Peter Dorsey, Ray Lucas, Speedism, Emeka Udemba, Kees Christiaanse, Elliott Malkin, Jesse LeCavalier, Maurizio Scarciglia, Edward Richardson, Carolyn Sponza, Abha Mahajan, Karen Crequer and Matilde Cassani


Contributors:

Maria Reitano is an architect and PhD candidate in urban studies at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, SKuOR, at TU Wien. Her research draws on critical urban studies and feminist political approaches, focusing on intersecting spatial practices of insurgency and care in Naples, Italy; Mark Gottdiener is Professor Emeritus at University at Buffalo specializing in both Urbanism and Cultural Studies. Through his major works, The Social Production of Urban Space and The New Urban Sociology, which is in its 6th edition, he developed the sociospatial approach to urbanization; Sharon Zukin is an American professor emerita of sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, City University of New York, who often writes about cities, culture, and gentrification. Her new book, The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy, examines the shaping of the tech ecosystem in New York; Bernd Upmeyer is a Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel; Richard Plunz is an American architect, critic, and historian. He is Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York and was the Founding Director of the Urban Design Lab, a research unit of Columbia's Earth Institute, where he also served as professor; Andrés Álvarez-Dávila is a M.Arch and M.S Historic Preservation graduate from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Recently he was a research assistant with the Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute of Columbia University; Tatjana Schneider is Professor for History and Theory of Architecture at Technische Universität Braunschweig. Her research and teaching is focused on practices that promote common good and resist violent - exploitative, speculative, and exclusionary - productions of space; Christoffer Jusélius has worked as a planner in local governments and as a consultant for the past decade. He is currently working as an urban planner in Stockholm municipality. Christoffer is passionate about issues regarding the right to the city such as inclusive public space and affordable housing; Helen Runting is an urban planner, urban designer, and theorist; she is a founding partner in the award-winning architecture practice Secretary and holds a PhD in Critical Studies in Architecture from KTH in Stockholm. Secretary's work investigates the emancipatory potential of the late welfare state; Constanze Wolfgring, BSc, MA, MAS, is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on land and housing policies, the interrelation between migration, urban development and planning, urban utopianism, and the role of public housing in urban regeneration processes; Nuria Ribas Costa is a Spanish Journalist and Jurist based between Rotterdam and Ibiza, her homeland. Formerly at OMA, she currently works as an independent researcher, policy analyst and programme-maker in the fields of urbanism and culture. She is part of urbanism agency Humankind, De Dépendance and the Center for Music Ecosystems; Valentina Rizzi is a Ph.D. student in Visual Arts at the Iuav University of Venice. Her research focuses on the intersections between visual arts and dwelling from a transformative perspective, working on the integration of performative profiles as a generative strategy for the deinstitutionalization of domestic spaces; Bharat Sikka was born and raised in India, where he began his photographic practice before studying at the Parsons School of Design, NY. Sikka's long term photographic projects have centered on the cultural residues and societal transformations within India, rendered with the visual language and material forms of contemporary art photography; Francisco Silva is one of the founders of EX FIGURA. After studying at the Porto School of Architecture and Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam, he has worked for Jean Nouvel and Sou Fujimoto Architects. Simultaneously, his research and work has been presented throughout the world and on multiple platforms; Tatjana Crossley is a co-founder of ArchiTAG, an architectural and research practice that addresses issues related to spatial experience, architecture's impact on subjectivity, and the creation of space that challenges societal histories. Her research is focused on the sensory and psychological properties of immersive environments and virtual realities; Serafina Amoroso is an architect and PhD in Architectural and Urban Design who is currently working as a Lecturer in Architectural Design at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain). Her personal and academic interests are mainly focused on gender perspectives and their relationship with space and education; Maxime Matthys is a visual artist working and living between Rennes and Paris. He is developing an artistic practice using mainly photography, performance, videography and installation. His work focuses on the way technologies are affecting our daily life and are shifting our perception of reality; Brian Holland is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Arkansas, and the founder of Open Set, a research and design studio working at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and ecology. He is the creator and organizer of the Piggybacking Practices research project, which launched online in 2021; Agnes Katharina Müller (Dr.-Ing.) is an architect and urban researcher based in Berlin. Her first book, "Coworking Spaces: Urbane Räume im Kontext flexibler Arbeitswelten", examines the emergence of co-working spaces and flexible work environments. She also researches and teaches on urban commons and urban mobility at the TU Berlin; Izaskun Chinchilla is a Spanish architect who graduated from the Technical University of Madrid, where she has been running her own office 'Izaskun Chinchilla Architects' since 2001. Currently, she is Professor of Architectural Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her work has been exhibited at the 8th and 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, among other places; Paul Kalbfleisch is a writer, speaker, and consultant on new city-building strategies that move beyond traditional quality-of-life measures to prioritizing the economic, social, and environmental benefits of infrastructure for the human spirit found in joyful cities. He co-wrote, along with real estate developer Scott Higgins, The Joy Experiments: Starting A New Conversation On City Building; Ying Zhou is an architect and urban theorist teaching at the University of Hong Kong. She is concerned with architecture's agency in the civicness of the city, eroding with the onslaught of neoliberalization and exacerbated by the pandemic. Zhou earned her BSE at Princeton, her March at Harvard, and her PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Mingming Zhao, a LEED Accredited Professional, is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Mingming's academic journey began at the University of Nottingham (Ningbo, China) where she completed her undergraduate studies; Mark Wigley is Professor of Architecture and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University. He is a historian, theorist, and critic who explores the intersection of architecture, art, philosophy, culture, and technology. His books include Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design and Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire; Bernd Upmeyer is a Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel; Marco Enia is a PhD in Architectural Communication and holds a Master in Analysis, Theory and History of Architecture. He has taught at the Università degli studi di Palermo, Italy and lectured both in Europe and in Latin America. Since 2019, he is a full time professor at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico; Flavio Martella holds a master’s degree in Architecture and Engineering from Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, and is a PhD candidate in Architecture at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is a professor in the Master in Architectural Communication at UPM; Akoaki is a Detroit-based architecture and design studio founded by Anya Sirota and Jean Louis Farges. Since 2007, Akoaki has established a reputation for innovative and resonant projects. Akoaki’s design philosophy recognizes the pleasure and value of collective, aesthetic experience; Anya Sirota is a Ukrainian-born architectural designer and educator. She is the founding principal of Akoaki, an award-winning practice of architects and urban design specializing in public spaces and experimental cultural infrastructure. She teaches architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College; Jean Louis Farges is a French-born designer and curator. Through fieldwork and collaborative processes, he explores techniques for cultural, urban activation. Farges’ backgrounds in photography and music production play key roles in structuring his singular approach to design; Nick Dunn is Executive Director of ImaginationLancaster, an open and exploratory design and architecture research lab at Lancaster University in the UK, where he is also Professor. He is the founding Director of the Dark Design Lab, exploring the impacts of nocturnal activity on humans and non-humans; Dan Dubowitz is Reader in Architecture and International Lead at Manchester School of Architecture. He is Director of the cross-school teaching atelier: FLUX investigating how architecture can be on the move and activate a state of change. Dan is founder and director of Civic Works Ltd.; Wijdane Esseffah is a graduate student of architecture in the National School of Architecture in Rabat. She is interested in the theoretical framework of architecture and the crossovers between architecture and urban planning and other humanities; Ana Morcillo Pallares is a Spanish architect, cofounder of MP+R Arquitectos and assistant professor at Taubman College of Architecture. Her work interrogates social, spatial, and material realities, focusing on the continuous negotiations between citizen demands, private interests and political agendas; Paul Cetnarski is an architect with a B. Arch. in Architecture and Urban Planning, a M. Arch. in Heritage Preservation (TU Wroclaw), and a Strelka Institute Alumnus. He is based in Berlin working in architecture, education and research; Isabelle Pateer is an award-winning documentary and portrait photographer working on personal series as well as commissioned projects for international clients among which were the Financial Times, Monocle and The New York Times. Recent shows include Kunsthaus Wien, PHOTOVILLE New York and Photo IS:RAEL; Elian Somers, with a background in photography and architecture, investigates the urban utopian landscape, in particular the interplay between architecture and urban planning, ideologies and (geo)politics. Somers’ works have been shown at international exhibitions, and published in various magazines; Maria Reitano is an architect and PhD candidate in urban planning at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), Department of Architecture (DiARC). Her interests involve the urban political and popular agency in public space; Nikolaus Gartner is an architect and independent researcher. He studied at Technical University of Vienna TU Wien (Austria) and University of Naples Federico II (Italy). His interests involve the relationship between architecture and landscape, town planning in rural areas, and urban ruralities; MARS at PBSA is an architectural and urban research studio that was conducted by Bernd Upmeyer in the winter term of 2021/22 under the title “Unfinished Urbanism” at the Peter Behrens School of Arts (PBSA) in Düsseldorf. “MARS” is the acronym of “MONU’s Academic Research Studio”; Avsar Gürpinar is a scholar, designer, and co-founder of the Ambiguous Standards Institute. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Product Design. Avsar is working as a lecturer at Loughborough University; Nur Horsanali is a designer and researcher based in the Netherlands interested in material culture and vernacular design. She holds a BSc degree in Industrial Design from Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey and an MA degree in Product and Spatial Design from Aalto University, Finland; Cansu Cürgen is an architect, scholar, and co-founder of the Ambiguous Standards Institute. She lives and works in the UK, and teaches at Loughborough University, School of Architecture. She is a PhD candidate in Architecture at Istanbul Technical University; Rupal Rathore is an architect, urban researcher, writer and yoga instructor based in India. She graduated in 2018 from Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai and now practices design under her studio The Native Platform; Maarten Willemstein is a photographer based in Amsterdam. He focuses on still-life, interior and architectural photography. His work was published in magazines such as AD Germany, Attitude Magazine, De Architect, Esquire, Frame, Vogue, and Wallpaper; Dan Hill is Director of Melbourne School of Design, the graduate school in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dan is also a Visiting Professor at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Practice; bplus.xyz understands itself as a collaborative architecture practice that brings together different actors from theory to practice with different formats from buildings to campaigns, exhibitions, texts and films; Arno Brandlhuber is a German architect and university professor. In 2006, he founded the Berlin-based office Brandlhuber+, which is currently reforming with a new structure in an equal partnership as bplus.xyz; Olaf Grawert is an Austrian architect and author, and partner at bplus.xyz. Since 2017 he teaches and researches together with Arno Brandlhuber at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, where they founded station.plus, a design and research chair that focuses on storytelling and time-based media; Tiphaine Abenia is a civil engineer, an architect and a researcher teaching at EPFL (CH). She is the co-founder of the association ACE (Atelier de Conception Non Extractive). Her research focuses on liminal urban phenomena, opened structures and critical design tools; Marcello Carpino is an Italian architect currently based in Brussels collaborating with Office KGDVS. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano and a Master’s degree from TU Delft. More recently, he has collaborated with OMA in Rotterdam and Herzog de Meuron in Basel; Vittoria Poletto graduated as an architect from TU Delft, the Netherlands. Between 2018 and 2019, she had the chance to work in Geneva, and at Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo, Japan. She is currently working at the architecture firm DOGMA in Brussels, Belgium; Ian Nazareth is an architect, researcher and educator. Ian is the director of TRAFFIC - a design and research practice working across architecture, urbanism and computation, co-director of the Urban Futures Office (UFO); David Schwarzman is an architect at UNStudio in Amsterdam and Academic at RMIT University in Melbourne Interested in the relationships between the built environment, human behaviour and data. He holds a BA of Environments from The University of Melbourne and MA in Architecture from RMIT; Anthony Reed is a photographer and filmmaker based in London. His practice broadly explores the subjective interpretation of the built environment. In his artworks we sense the city’s dense urban fabric; Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a Professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University; Bernd Upmeyer is a Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel; Jeffrey Hou is Professor of Landscape Architecture and the director of the Urban Commons Lab at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 2017-2018, he received a research grant from the China Studies program at the University of Washington to study the civil society organizations in Hong Kong following the 2014 Umbrella Movement; Cansu Cürgen is an architect, scholar and co-founder of the Ambiguous Standards Institute. She is a PhD candidate in Architecture at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Since 2016, she works as a full-time lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University. She participated at the IKSV Istanbul Design Biennial; Avsar Gürpinar is a scholar, designer, engineer, and co-founder of the Ambiguous Standards Institute. He holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering, and MSc and PhD degrees in Industrial Product Design. He currently works at Istanbul Bilgi University's Faculty of Architecture; APP (Archive of Public Protest) is a collective of photographers that has been documenting the protests for the past 5 years and launched a Strike Newspaper to express the support and solidarity with the Women's Strike protests. The photographers of APP include among others: Rafal Milach, Michal Adamski, Marta Bogdanska, Karolina Gembara, and Dawid Zielinski; Ben Parry is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the MA in Curatorial Practice. He received his BA in Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art, MCD in Urban Planning from the University of Liverpool, and PhD from the University of West of Scotland. Ben works as an artist, curator and independent researcher; Maddy Weavers is a recent graduate from a degree in architecture at the University of Bath. She is currently the Associate Editor at Real Review and Editor at Drawing Matter, and writes for publications including The Architectural Review. Maddy is particularly interested in the ways spatial organisation shapes social relations and power dynamics; Dillon Webster is a designer and researcher with degrees in Architecture and Urban and Cultural Heritage.He is a PhD candidate at Swinburne University of Technology. As a researcher, he is exploring themes of post-modernism, archival frameworks, memory, queer representation, and virtual heritage; Ece Yetim is an architectural designer who lives in NYC. She holds a Masters in Architecture from Princeton University SoA, a Bachelors of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. She worked in Studio Daniel Libeskind NYC and Atelier Bow Wow in Tokyo where her experience ranged from furniture to urban scale projects; Ulrich Lebeuf is a French photographer. He is also the artistic director of the MAP Photography Festival in Toulouse and conducts workshops in France and abroad. A member of agence MYOP since January 2007, his photographic work has been published in Le Monde, Libération, L'équipe, Géo, National Geographic; Liana Kuyumcuyan is a designer and editor. She studied in the Industrial Design department at Istanbul Bilgi University and Social Design masters department at Design Academy Eindhoven. She is the Executive Editor of Design Unlimited magazine since 2019; Hans Pruijt is an assistant professor at the Sociology Department of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In the late1970s he was involved in the Dutch squatting movement occupying buildings to fight against the demolition of entire neighbourhoods in Amsterdam. As a sociologist he has written extensively on the topic of squatting; Nurul Azreen Azlan is an academic based at UTM Kuala Lumpur. She works at the intersection of public space and postcolonial geography. Her fascination with the Arab Spring and Occupy resulted in a PhD completed at TU Delft on the geography of protest in postcolonial Malaysia; Becky Luk is an architect, urban researcher and photojournalist to-be from Hong Kong. Her work aims to reveal, examine and engage with the urban systems and processes that make Hong Kong a city that is specific to its own people, and to make a proper study on them before they disappear; Ching Kan is an architect who draws and writes. The majority of her work is based on her observations on the urban issues in Hong Kong, transformed and re-presented by means of illustration and storytelling; Bing Guan is a Chinese American freelance photographer and journalist based in Southern California. He currently splits his time between San Diego and Long Beach. Bing attended Dartmouth College and holds a BA cum laude in history from Columbia University. He was a student at the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXII and Missouri Photo Workshop 71; Ana Miriam Rebelo graduated in Fine Arts from the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux. Currently she is conducting doctoral research in Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Her research interests concern experiences, perceptions, and representations of urban space and their manifestations as visual culture; Heitor Alvelos holds a PhD in Design from the Royal College of Art and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Porto, where he directs the PhD Program in Design and the Unexpected Media Lab / ID+ Research Center for Design, Media and Culture; Cécile Houpert holds a master's degree in European affairs and international relations from the University of Strasbourg. After her graduation she joined Eurocities, the network of major European cities, as European projects coordinator. Since 2020 she is a postgraduate student in the Master of Human Settlements (MaHS) programme at KU Leuven, Belgium; Aaron Kalfen is a designer and architect with nearly a decade of professional experience across a variety of building typologies in global markets. His firm experience includes Goettsch Partners, GREC Architects, and HNTB. He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Kansas and lives in metropolitan Chicago; Benjamin van Loon is a communications leader with diverse experience in real estate, architecture, urban planning, and economic development. By day he leads communications for an international real estate investment association, and by night he serves as an adjunct professor of communications at Northeastern Illinois University; Mario Matamoros is a Honduran architect, urban designer, and professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras where he lectures architecture and urban design. He is a current member of the Interacademies Partnership´s working group on Urban Health and leads an architecture and urban design firm called MAP; Sebastian Oviedo is an architect from Quito, Ecuador. His professional and academic work focuses on the plural modes of socio-spatial (re)production that emerge from the practices of collectives, communities and movements in Latin America. He holds a post-graduate Master in Human Settlements from the KU Leuven, Belgium; Jeroen Stevens is an architect and urbanist, currently engaged as a post-doctoral researcher in the OSA Research Group at KU Leuven and as Fulbright & BAEF Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. His research sounds out the agency of myriad and miscellaneous urban movements and struggles for social justice; Viviana d'Auria is Associate Professor in International Urbanism at the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven. Her research focuses on the intersection between urbanism and pluralism, with a commitment to collaboratively interrogate the trans-cultural construction of territories and their contested spaces; Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture, art, technology, sexuality and media. She is Founding Director of the interdisciplinary Media and Modernity Program at Princeton University, and the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture; Bernd Upmeyer is a Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel; Ana Morcillo Pallares, PhD, is a Spanish architect, cofounder of MPR Arquitectos and Assistant Professor at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Her current research interrogates social, spatial, and material realities, focusing on the continuous negotiation of citizen demands, private interests and political agendas; Jessica Bridger is an urbanist, consultant and writer active across spatial practice, from the scales of the component to the regional and territorial. She holds an MLArch from Harvard GSD. She has written, edited and produced many books, journals, magazines, policy documents and guidance papers for international audiences; Peter Dench is a UK-based photographer, presenter, writer, author, educator and curator. He won the World Press Photo award in the People in the News Stories category and participated in the World Press Joop Masterclass. His Football’s Hidden Story, a FIFA sponsored reportage comprising 26 stories across 20 different countries, received six global accolades; Dalia Munenzon is an urban design and planner. She received a Master’s in Architectural studies from MIT and a Bachelor’s in Architecture and Town Planning from the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology. Dalia thaught at the Rhode Island School of Design and served as guest critic at the Harvard GSD, BAC, MIT, and the Cooper Union; Yair Titelboim is an architectural designer, urban planner and researcher with expertise in urban design, real estate development, and computational architecture. Titelboim holds two Master Degrees from MIT in Architecture and City Planning and served as a lead researcher at the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab from 2017-2020; Michaela Litsardaki is “mostly” an architect and recent urbanist. She is focusing on the fluid boundaries between the private and the public, questioning and investigating the spatial outcome of this duality, and the bodies produced in its margins, by studying public toilets, sex workers and balconies; Eventually Made is the creative output of Sebastian Bernardy and Vincent Meyer Madaus. Currently operating between Rotterdam and New York, the authors research and develop architectural narratives nestled in the everyday; an engagement of assembling found objects and situations through different media; Ian Nazareth is an Architect, Researcher and Academic. He is the Program Manager and head of the Master of Urban Design and Lecturer, Architecture, at RMIT University, Melbourne. Ian is also Director of TRAFFIC an emerging collaborative design and research practice; Conrad Haman is an Associate Professor in Architectural History at RMIT University, Melbourne. His published works include An Unfinished Experiment in Living: Australian Houses 1950-65, two editions of Cities of Hope: Australian Architecture and Design by Edmond and Corrigan, 1962-92, Oxford, 1993; Thames and Hudson 2012; Rosemary Heyworth is an architectural and urban researcher at RMIT University and Graduate Architect practicing in Melbourne; Carmelo Ignaccolo is a Ph.D. Candidate in City Design and Development at MIT, DUSP, and an Adj. Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP where he teaches a graduate-level course on digital techniques for Urban Design. His academic research focuses on urban morphology and environmental psychology in historic cities; Ayan Meer is a writer and translator, whose interests as a Ph.D. candidate at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning and as a member of Harvard’s Urban Theory Lab broadly revolve around the social and territorial transformations brought about by global capital mobility; Nadia Shira Cohen studied photography at the University of Vermont, with a semester abroad at SACI in Florence, Italy. Her curious nature led her into photojournalism. Since 2007 Nadia has been based in Rome, Italy where she continues with a creative spirit, to tell stories of the lives of people who interest her; Richard Sennett currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations on its Program on Climate Change and Cities. He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at MIT. Previously, he founded the New York Institute for the Humanities, taught at New York University and at the London School of Economics; Jan Fransen is a senior researcher in urban economic development and resilience at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, with a PhD in development studies. He has 25 years of working experience in 24 countries, conducting research, advisory services and training; Daniela Ochoa Peralta is a curious citizen by nature, sociologist and urban researcher under construction. For several years she has collected experiences to understand how and why citizens shape and transform their cities; she witnessed community resourcefulness, and for that she strongly believes in and advocate for community resilience; Alexander Jachnow is an urban development specialist, researcher and advisor in the fields of urban governance. He is the Head of Urban Strategies, Policies and Planning, HIS at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. The main focus of his work lies in enhancing institutions and human resources by improving urban management and policy frameworks worldwide; Kuba Snopek is an urban designer, writer, and educator. He has taught at the Kharkiv School of Architecture and at the Strelka Institute in Moscow. He is the author of Belyayevo Forever, about the preservation of intangible heritage and Day-VII Architecture, a comprehensive study of the Polish churches built during the Communist era; Josh Yates and Janna Hohn are both architects and urban designers. Together they run the design and research studio JOTT architecture and urbanism concentrating on production, creativity, and dynamism within the European city. Janna Hohn is also Professor for Urban Design at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences; Leticia Sabino is an urban designer and business administrator focused on walking and empathy. She is the founder and director of NGO SampaPé!, member of International Federation of Pedestrian (IFP). She graduated in Urban Design and City Planning at UCL (University College London) and is a mobilizer of the Open Street programme in Sao Paulo; Louise Uchôa is an architect and urban planner with a Master in Sustainable Architecture of Multi-Scale Project by the Politecnico di Milano. She integrated the research group responsible for the exhibition MSTC - Housing as a Citizenship Practice for the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial. She works as collaborator to SampaPé!, structuring a path towards a more humanist walkable city; SampaPé! Is a brazilian NGO, which acts on building more walkable cities with people since 2012. Throughout the years it has mobilized a series of actions and consultancy regarding walkability, mobility, public spaces and gender equality in Sao Paulo, where it is based, and also in other Brazilian cities, such as Curitiba; Anna Rita Emili is the owner of altro_studio. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome in 1990. She is currently Researcher and Teaching Professor of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture and Design “E. Vittoria”, University of Camerino; Michele Cerruti But, PhD, is a scholar and a student of the contemporary urban condition, Academic Coordinator of Accademia UNIDEE, the Higher Education Institute of Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy), and joint professor of Urbanism at Politecnico di Torino; Pedro Pitarch is an architect and contemporary musician. He is Associated Professor at ETSAM-UPM. He has been Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Steedman Fellow of the Washington Univer-sity in St Louis. He focuses on the interrelations between contemporary culture production and the construction of societies; Jörn Walter is a German city planner. From 1999 to 2017 he was Chief Planning Officer of the city of Hamburg. He studied spatial planning at the University of Dortmund. Since 2001 he has been a professor of architecture at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and since 2014 a professor at HafenCity University Hamburg; Bernd Upmeyer is a Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel; Sasha Plotnikova is a tenant, designer, critic, and activist living in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Los Angeles Tenants Union and the environmentalist collective OOLA. She has taught at Cal Poly Pomona and published writing in PLAT Journal, The Smudge, and Uneven Earth; Christopher de Vries is a partner at Rademacher/ de Vries Architects in the Netherlands. He graduated as an architect at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received his bachelor degree from the Delft University of Technology. In the US he was part of the Harvard GSD: New Geographies Lab and later worked at OPSYS Landscape Infrastructure; Richard Florida is University Professor at the Rotman School of Management and the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. Previously, Florida has held professorships at George Mason University and Carnegie Mellon University and taught as a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT; Savia Palate is an architect and PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her current research, funded by the Vice-Chancellor Award, focuses on the production of domesticity as prescribed by official reports on space standards and aims to investigate the complex interplay among housing, the state, and the market; Anne Mie Depuydt is an architect and urban planner and the director of the Paris-based office uapS that she founded with Erik Van Daele in 1999. Before opening uapS, Depuydt collaborated with Dominique Perrault and was project leader at Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture; Ellen Donnelly is an assistant professor of architecture in the College of Architecture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her M.Arch and MS in Architecture from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Michigan and a BA in urban design and architectural studies from New York University; Marc Maxey is a lecturer in the College of Architecture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He completed his Master degree at Princeton University, where he was selected as Princeton’s 2015 Dalai Lama Fellow and was the recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal. He received his Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Michigan in 2009; David Schalliol is an associate professor of sociology at St. Olaf College and principal with Scrappers Film Group. His writing and photographs have appeared in such publications as Social Science Research, MAS Context, and The New York Times, as well as in numerous exhibitions; Steffan Robel is founder and CEO of the Berlin-based landscape architecture office A24 Landschaft. His projects span urban development concepts as well as the restructuring of inner city areas, parks, squares and streets. Robel engages with the continued design of public space, and in turn the spatial organisation of the urban transformation process; Fani Kostourou is an Associate at Theatrum Mundi leading on Research, Design and Creative Development, and teaches at the Welsh School of Architecture and the CANactions School for Urban Studies. She is trained in architecture and urban design at NTU of Athens, ETH Zürich, and UCL London; Cecily Chua is an Associate at Theatrum Mundi leading on Design, Research, and Editorial. Trained in architecture at the Royal College of Art, she teaches an MArch studio at Central Saint Martins. Cecily has worked on a number of commissioned studies focusing on the importance of culture to London’s economy; Elahe Karimnia is an Associate at Theatrum Mundi leading on Urban Research and Spatial Practice, and a guest teacher at KTH Stockholm. Elahe is a practiced architect and academic, worked in different contexts including Toronto, Tehran, Berlin, and Marrakesh. She has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from KTH Stockholm; Nate Bicak is an Assistant Professor of Interior Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research focuses on the analysis and development of maker assets, and on studying the impacts of learning by doing. His current grant funded work seeks to understand motivations underlying the operation and use of makerspaces; Matthias Lamberts graduated from the European advanced Master in Urbanism in 2019, after a Master of Engineering and Architecture at KU Leuven, Belgium, and is now working at Studio Paola Viganò in Brussels; Ken Vervaet completed his Master of Engineering: Architecture at the KU Leuven in 2016. Since 2017 he has been active as a practicing architect in Brussels; Jeroen Stevens holds a PhD in architecture and urbanism from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and the Mackenzie University in São Paulo (Brazil). His research sounds out the particular spatial agency of cultural and social urban movements, as they take part in a worldwide quest for more environmentally sustainable and socially just cities; Bruno De Meulder studied at the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven (Belgium), where he also obtained his doctoral degree, and where today he teaches urbanism, its history, theory and practice. His teaching takes place through urban design studios. He publishes regularly on issues of urbanism in the post-industrial and postcolonial era; Ana Paula Pimentel Walker is an assistant professor in urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan. Ana Paula received a law degree from the University of Cruz Alta in Brazil, master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Latin American studies from UCLA, and a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego; María Arquero de Alarcón is an associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of Michigan. Though the research-based, collaborative design practice MAde Studio, her work examines the contested urbanization patterns in territories facing resource scarcity and reveals the disparate future urban imaginaries behind them; Luciana Ferrara, PhD, is a professor and researcher at Laboratório de Justiça Territorial (LABJUTA) at Universidade Federal do ABC. Brazilian architect and urbanist with degrees from the Universidade de São Paulo, she is a member of The Board of the National Observatory of Human Rights to Water and Sanitation; Benedito Roberto Barbosa is the coordinator at Central de Movimentos Populares em São Paulo (CMP-SP), a lawyer at Gaspar Garcia Center for Human Rights, founding member at União dos Movimentos de Moradia de São Paulo (UNMM-SP), and member of the Fórum Nacional da Reforma Urbana (FNRU); Tanzil Shafique is a Doctoral Fellow at the Melbourne School of Design where he also teaches. He co-founded and now co-directs Estudio Abierto/Open Studio, a think+do tank on architecture and urbanism. He holds a M.Arch from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York; Will Hartley studied documentary photography at Newport University in Wales, going on to win several awards and competitions. Will enjoys making projects about places and people, with a strong interest in youth culture and lifestyle. He has a studio in Limehouse Art Foundation, Bow, and joined the LPA Roster in 2017; DK Osseo-Asare is co-founder and principal of transatlantic architecture and integrated design studio Low Design Office (LOWDO); co-founder of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP), an open-source maker tech project geared for Africa; and assistant professor of architecture and engineering design at Penn State University, where he directs Humanitarian Materials Lab; Jonathan Tate is principal of OJT (Office of Jonathan Tate), an architecture and urban design practice in New Orleans. The office engages in numerous design-related activities, including applied research, opportunistic planning, strategic development and conventional architectural practice, John Doyle is an architect and an urbanist. He is the head the Master of Architecture program at RMIT University. He is a Director of NAAU Studio architecture, a Director of Martires Doyle Architects, and is a researcher in the Cities clusters at RMIT. He was co-curator of the 2019 Super Tight exhibition at the RMIT Design Hub gallery; Graham Crist is Associate Professor of Architecture at RMIT University in the School of Architecture and Urban Design. He is a founding director of Melbourne based practice Antarctica: Architects. Graham is director of RMIT’s Practice Based Research Symposium PhD program in Asia. He was co-curator of the 2019 Super Tight exhibition at the RMIT Design Hub gallery; Scott Lloyd and Nemanja Zimonjic lead TEN, a Zürich/Belgrade architecture and research studio that aims to conceive, design, and produce work that expands upon emerging practices in the built environment; Alexis Kalagas is Urban Strategy Lead at Relative Projects, with an interest in alternative housing models and digital innovation he has pursued as a Harvard GSD Richard Rogers Fellow, a finalist in the City of Sydney’s Housing Ideas Challenge, and in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism (with TEN); Karla Rothstein is an architect, professor, and creative thinker living, practicing, and teaching in New York City at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Her areas of research span intimate spaces of metropolitan domestic life and infrastructures of death and memory; Bernd Upmeyer is a Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel; Miguel Candela is a documentary photographer specializing in long-term projects on humanitarian and social issues in the Southern Asia region. He focuses on issues that are sometimes ignored, such as the discrimination of minorities, gender discrimination, human trafficking, and poverty; Omar Kassab is an architect and urbanist with a theoretical interest in the interconnections between architecture, urbanism and visual representation. He studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, with a particular interest in culinary spaces. His work revolves around a narrative emphasis that critically intersects both fiction and history; Mostafa Youssef is a research-based artist who combines experiences from the fields of art and architecture, where he explores historical and contemporary instances from political and social standpoints. He holds a Master of Arts in Graphic Narratives from Leuven University College of Arts (LUCA) in Brussels; David Charles Sloane is a professor in the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He teaches courses in urban planning, policy, history, and community health planning. Sloane is author of "The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History". His new book, "Is the Cemetery Dead?" appeared 2018; Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre is an architect originally from Montréal. She spent a year in Berlin to teach at TU Dresden faculty of architecture while working for JUNE 14. Her equal love for architecture as matter and thought led to her collaboration on projects ranging from publications, exhibitions to workshops and constructions; Sébastien Roy is an architect originally from Montréal. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the most recent Arthur Erickson Award (Royal Canadian Academy of Arts). Roy recently pursued a personal research project in Germany before moving to Brussels, where he practices as an architect for 51N4E; Carlton Basmajian is Associate Professor of Community Planning at Iowa State University. His research interests include the history of urban and regional planning in the United States; politics of planning, urban design, and the built environment; planning in the US South; regionalism and state-led planning; and landscapes of death; Christopher Coutts is Professor of Urban Planning at Florida State University. His public health ecology research examines the influence of ecologically-sensitive land use practices on health and health behavior. The thrust of his ecological planning research explores how nature supports the ecosystem services essential to human health and well-being; Sybil Tong holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology, Sociology, and Human Geography from the University of Toronto and a Master of Urban Planning degree from Ryerson University. She currently works as an urban planner in Toronto, Canada and as a private researcher and consultant providing cemetery design guidelines; Julie Rugg is a Senior Research Fellow of the Cemetery Research Group, University of York (UK). She has experience in cemetery research both nationally and internationally. As the leading national expert on policy relating to the supply of burial space, she was lead advisor to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Cemeteries in 2000/2001; Nicole Hanson is an environmental planner that has been globally raising the moral consciousness of the planning sector through her work on cemetery urbanism. Hanson has a combined Honours degree in Political Science and Urban Studies from York University and holds a Masters in Environmental Studies, Urban and Regional Planning from York University; Katrina Spade is an American designer, entrepreneur, and death care advocate. She is the founder of Recompose, a public benefit corporation that offers an alternative choice to cremation and conventional burial. She has a BA in Anthropology from Haverford College and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Nienke Hoogvliet is a Dutch designer and the founder of The Hague-based Studio Nienke Hoogvliet. She graduated from Lifestyle & Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam. With her projects she aims to raise awareness of social and environmental problems in the textile, leather and food industry; James Norris is the founder of the end of life planning software MyWishes, a free service that allows users to post pre-designed content, such as updates, pictures, and comments, at defined intervals or on certain important dates or anniversaries after their death. Norris is also a part time lecturer and mentor in digital & social media at University College London (UCL); Andréia Martins van den Hurk is a Brazilian Journalist, Anthropologist and Social Scientist who has recently completed her PhD with the Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), at the University of Bath (UK). Since 2008, she has been researching the ways in which social media can help us cope with death and dying; Cameron Jamie is an American visual artist and filmmaker working in a wide variety of mediums. His work is shown widely and internationally. Jamie is also a member of the experimental band Cannibal with Loren and Denis Tyfus; Monica Hutton is a researcher and designer with degrees in urbanism, architecture, and environmental design. Her work explores alternative formats for communication across design, humanities, sciences, and visual arts, and focuses on designing for an expanded scale of time and territory to address long-term and far-reaching urban issues; Anya Domlesky is an American urban designer and currently the Director of Research at SWA Group where she runs XL Lab. She holds an MLA from Harvard GSD and an M.Arch II from McGill University and is a designer of the expansion of the historic Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California; Bruno De Meulder studied at the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven (Belgium), where he also obtained his doctoral degree, and where today he teaches urbanism, its history, theory and practice. His teaching takes place through urban design studios. He publishes regularly on issues of urbanism in the postindustrial and postcolonial era; Kelly Shannon is a professor of urbanism and program director of the Master of Human Settlement and Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning programs at the University of Leuven (Belgium). Her research is at the intersection of interpretative mapping, projective cartography, urbanism and landscape with a particular focus in Vietnam; Elissaveta Marinova is a writer and editor with experience in architecture, design and urbanism. Her work has appeared in Wallpaper, Blueprint and Icon, among others. Based in New York City, she is also working on a collection of magical realism stories about buildings, and a project involving design-led gingerbread houses; Deane Simpson is an architect, urbanist and educator teaching and researching at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen, where he is professor and co-leader with Charles Bessard of the masters program Urbanism and Societal Change. He is the author of Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society; Bernd Upmeyer is a Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel (Germany); Peter Granser is a photographer, who lives in Stuttgart, Germany. He established already with his first project Sun City a significant style and developed his work over the years. Granser received numerous prizes and awards such as the Arles Discovery Award in 2002, the Oskar-Barnack Award in 2004 and the Helmut-Kraft-Foundation Talent Art Prize in 2011; Hannah Wood is an architect and writer currently living and working in East Africa. Her monthly feature column for Archinect, 'Architecture Futures', aims to explore developments in architecture within wider cultural and political discussions by bringing together critical voices on each topic; Benjamin Wells is an architect and researcher based in Denmark, focused on the points of convergence between space, politics and society. He is a founding member of Medium and was commissioned by the Danish Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale to write a series of accompanying texts; Frits van Dongen is a Dutch architect, who has been the Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands from 2011 until 2015. In the 1990s he realized some remarkable housing projects, such as the "The Whale" in Amsterdam and "De Landtong" at the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam. During his long career he delivered over 12,000 housing units both across the Netherlands and internationally; Nicolò Calandrini grew up in a cinematic atmosphere due to the consistent work of his parents in the sector. In 2015 he graduated at the IUAV University of Architecture in Venice. Currently he is developing a research about the development of forgotten areas along the Albanian Riviera, trying to reconcile safeguard and revaluation with architectural solutions; Anuschka Kutz is Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture, Sint Luca, KU Leuven, where she runs Urban Field Lab (UFL)© within the International Master in Architecture program. She is also a Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Brighton and co-director of offsea (office for socially engaged architecture), which she founded with Andrea Benze in 2003; Rachel Marlene Kauder is a writer living in New York. She is the editor of My Little Red Book (Twelve Books, 2009) and co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project (Feminist Press, 2015). Her book Stages, excerpted for this magazine, will be published by Thick Press in 2020; Luca Brunelli is Senior Lecturer at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, and he is currently completing his PhD at the Urban Institute, Heriot-Watt University, in Edinburgh, on the intersections between ageing population, well-being and everyday use of local High Streets. He holds a MArch from Turin Polytechnic in Italy; Chris Phillipson is Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology at the University of Manchester. Before coming to Manchester he was Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology at Keele University. He received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the British Society of Gerontology in 2011; Rafael Luna is an assistant professor at Hanyang University and co-founder of the architecture firm PRAUD. He received a Master of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Luna's current research focuses on infra-architectural hybrid typologies as systems for urban efficiency. Luna is the award winner of the Architectural League Prize 2013; Arjen Born is a Dutch photographer, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague in 2008. Since then, he has been a freelance photographer for the NRC and others. In his work he aims to depict current events in an illustrative way, drawing inspiration from everything and everyone who has something to say; Julienne Gage is a Miami-based anthropologist and journalist with an interest in urbanism and aging. She has researched, written, and produced news, documentaries, and educational materials for media outlets such as BBC, Discovery, Al Jazeera, and Public Radio International The World; BETA was founded in 2015 by two its partners. Prior to founding BETA, Evert Klinkenberg lived and worked in Switzerland for 10 years while Auguste van Oppen practiced architecture in the Dutch context. Work of the office is frequently published in the international press and receives recognition, most recently the Amsterdam Architecture Prize; Junya Ishigami is a Japanese architect. He worked with Kazuyo Sejima from 2000 to 2004 at SANAA, before establishing his own firm in 2004: junya.ishigami+associates. In 2010 he won the Golden Lion for Best Project at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, and in the same year, he became an associate professor at Tohoku University in Japan. In 2019 he was selected as an architect for Serpentine Pavilion; Jack Sardeson is a graduate of the Bartlett School of Architecture University College London (UCL) and the University of Cambridge where he was appointed a Winston Churchill Fellow. Jack is currently conducting an international study on neurodegeneration and architecture in collaboration with the; British Council, UCL, Cambridge and Arup Engineering; Apple Yi Jiang is currently studying at Sejima Studio, part of the Institute of Architecture at Vienna's University of Applied Arts (IOA, Die Angewandte). Before taking on this master's program in Vienna, she worked as an architect in Beijing for 7 years, at Studio Peizhu, Graft, and Hen; Matthias Hollwich, AIA, is Principal and Co-Founder of the New York-based architecture firm HWKN. His book New Aging, published by Penguin Books in 2016, explores how architecture and design can enhance the lives of older people; Hanne van der Woude is a Dutch photographer. She studied photography at ArtEZ, the School of Arts in Arnhem, where she lives and works. An elementary component of van der Woude's portrait series is the intensive observation of human behaviour and their environment; Cassim Shepard teaches architecture and urban design at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He produces non-fiction media about cities, buildings, and places. Trained as an urban planner, geographer, and documentary filmmaker, he lectures widely about the craft of visual storytelling in urban analysis, planning, and design; Omar Kassab is an architect and urban designer focusing on the interconnections between architecture, urbanism and visual representation. He holds an MA from the Architectural Association School of Architecture and is currently working at the faculty of Architecture and Urban Design at the German University in Cairo; MAP Office is a multidisciplinary platform devised by Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix. This duo of artists/architects has been based in Hong Kong since 1996, working on physical and imaginary territories using varied means of expression including drawing, photography, video, installations, performance, and literary and theoretical texts; Laurent Gutierrez is co-founder of MAP Office. He earned a Ph.D. of Architecture from RMIT. He is a Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he leads the Master of Design Programs and the Master of Design in Design Strategies as well as the Master of Design in Urban Environments Design programs; Valérie Portefaix is an artist and architect. She is the principal and co-founder of MAP Office. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Art, and a Master of Architecture, she earned a Ph.D. of Urbanism from University Pierre Mendes France. She is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Pierre Huyghe is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. Huyghe has been working with time-based situations and site-specific installations since the early 1990s. He has had numerous international solo exhibitions at venues around world; Alicia Lazzaroni and Antonio Bernacchi are coordinators of the 3rd and 4th year of the International Program in Design and Architecture of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. They're co-founders of Animali Domestici, a design practice focused on the development of speculative projects, products and processes; Nick Dunn is Executive Director of ImaginationLancaster, an open and exploratory design research lab at Lancaster University in the UK where he is Professor of Urban Design. His latest book, Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City (Zero, 2016), is an exploration of walking as cultural practice, the politics of space and the right to the city; Dan Dubowitz is an architect who, for 20 years, has pioneered a new approach to embedding cultural transformation into city-scale developments which has become known as cultural masterplanning. His work challenges the way things are normally done by devising cultural interventions from the bottom up whilst the bigger picture emerges; Cameron McEwan teaches at the Institute of Architecture, UCLan, and is a Trustee of the AE Foundation. Cameron's research focuses on architecture and the city as a critical project, and is published in Drawing On, Journal of Architectural Education, Lo Squaderno, at the 2014 Venice Biennale, and elsewhere; Lorens Holm is Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee. He runs Rooms+Cities, which uses architectural design and theory to open up a space for designing new forms of city and social life; Lorenzo Lazzari studied architecture at the Iuav University in Venice and ETSAB in Barcelona. In 2018 he became a research fellow at the "clusterLAB LSD: Forme del Displaying". His research ranges from political analysis of urban festivals to the representation of memory in the domestic space; Tiago Torres-Campos is a Portuguese landscape architect and Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He is doing a PhD in Architecture by Design, where he investigates possibilities of contemporary cities and landscapes to exist in the face of the Anthropocene. His research focuses on the geologic conditions of scale, frame and ground in Manhattan, NYC; Design Earth is an architectural practice founded in 2010 by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy. Their work was exhibited at Venice Architecture Biennale, Oslo Triennale, Seoul Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Sursock Museum, Beirut, amongst others. Ghosn and Jazairy are authors of Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment; Seda Yildiz is a multidisciplinary artist, freelance writer and emerging curator currently based in Hamburg. Interested in open questions and poetics of politics, Seda frequently resorts humour and abstraction as a tool in her artistic practice that mostly focuses on social-political issues; Amila Širbegovic, born in Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives and works in Vienna, where she works and researches at the intersection of urban planning, migration and production of space. She studied architecture at the University of Technology, Vienna (1996-2004) and finishes her doctoral studies in November 2013; Carolyn Drake is an American photographer. She is interested in photography as a medium for reshaping reality and history, and for its uncanny capacity to activate human emotions. Her independently-published photo books have received wide attention, and have recently been translated as installations, including recent solo shows at SFMOMA and the Houston Center for Photography; Kathleen Gmyrek is a landcape architectural designer based in Berlin. Her work explores narrative, process and participation within the context of landscape architecture and urbanism; WAI Architecture Think Tank practices architecture from a panoramic approach. Founded in Brussels in 2008 by Puerto Rican architect, artist, author educator and theorist Cruz Garcia and French architect, artist, author, educator and poet, Nathalie Frankowski. Garcia and Frankowski are current Hyde Chairs of Excellence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Kathrin Golda-Pongratz is a Barcelona-based architect, urbanist, professor and urban researcher. Her research focuses on urban memory, urban culture(s) and public space, Hispano-American urbanism, postcolonial urbanization, non-formal urbanism and place-making strategies; Inge Goudsmit is an Associate at OMA Hong Kong and has practised Urban design and Architecture in Asia for over a decade. She has designed and expedited prestigious urban projects across multiple scales in all development phases, among them multiple master planning projects in the region as well as the Taipei Performing Arts Centre that is currently under construction Amelyn Ng is a registered Australian architect, writer and cartoonist currently undertaking further research at Columbia University, New York. She has written and drawn for Volume Magazine, Architectural Review, Inflection Journal, Assemble Papers, Arena Magazine, pulparchitecture, Foreground, GSAPP Freepost, and Sydney University Press; Phil Roberts is an architecture and design writer based in Montreal, Canada. He has an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, where he majored in architectural design, and minored in Canadian studies and Spanish; Benjamin van Loon is a writer and researcher living in Chicago, IL. By day he leads communications for an architecture and urban planning firm in Chicago. By night he writes for a wide variety of media and serves as an adjunct professor of public relations at Northeastern Illinois University; Beatriz Ramo is a Spanish architect and urbanist. She studied at the ETSA in Valencia and at the TU in Eindhoven. She founded STAR strategies + architecture in Rotterdam in 2006. She is currently focusing on housing and is developing a project of 280 experimental apartments in the south of Paris. Before opening STAR Beatriz Ramo worked at OMA; Nigel Ostime is an architect and Project Delivery Director at Hawkins/Brown Architects in London. He sits on the RIBA Practice and Profession Committee and is chair of the RIBA Client Liaison Group. He is author of several books including ‘A Commercial Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect’ and the ‘Architect’s Handbook of Practice Management’; Alejandro Zaera-Polo is currently Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture in Princeton University. He worked at OMA in Rotterdam prior to establishing FOA in 1993, an international award winning practice that built projects such as the Yokohama International Cruise Terminal in Japan. In June 2013, he founded Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture (AZPML); The Leewardists are an India-based group of illustrators headed by Anuj Kale that narrates stories through sarcastic approaches, to gain perception and understand the values of nature, society and human relations. The Leewardists discuss untold stories of rulers, kingdoms and dynasties, people, places and cities; Iulia Hurducas is a trained architect and urbanist, currently pursuing a PhD at the Sheffield School of Architecture, United Kingdom, with a thesis engaging the outside of the city: Sorting Nature. The Forest as an Operational Territory of Planetary Urbanization. She continues to be involved in matters of the city; Aras Gökten studied photography at the Ostkreuz School in Berlin where he graduated in 2014. With an eye for the absurd, the photographer explores the contemporary relationship between man and architecture. His work has been exhibited across the world including e.g. Aperture Foundation New York or Deichtorhallen in Hamburg; Azadeh Zaferani, director and curator of Platform 28, is originally trained as an architect in Dubai, and later as an urban designer in the University of Toronto. She has launched Platform 28 in Tehran in 2015, which acts as a catalyst in connecting the local and international professional community as well as providing public knowledge by its seasonal programs; Tom Marble studied at UC Berkeley and Yale. He launched his practice, Tom Marble Architecture, in 2001. His award-winning Tattuplex was recently featured on Dwell, Gestalten, and CNN. His pamphlet, After the city, this (is how we live) was published in 2008; he is at work on The Expediter, critical fiction set in downtown Los Angeles; Tanzil Shafique is a Doctoral Fellow at the Melbourne School of Design where he also teaches. He co-founded and now co-directs Estudio Abierto/Open Studio, a think+do tank on architecture and urbanism. He holds an M. Arch in Ecological Urbanism from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York; Nate Bicak is an Assistant Professor of Interior Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research focuses on the analysis and development of maker assets, and on studying the impacts of learning by doing. His current grant funded work seeks to understand motivations underlying the operation and use of makerspaces; Tommaso Raimondi graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano and studied at Alta Scuola Politecnica, a multi-disciplinary school about innovation processes. His master thesis studied the dynamics of contacts in ordinary neighbourhoods. He is currently working in Milan; Paolo Romanò is an architect based in Milan. He graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis concerning the rehabilitation of Milanese post-war residential heritage. He developed his interest towards the modernist legacy in contemporary cities through the experiences at ENSA Nantes, TU Delft; Djamel Aït-Aïssa has a rich background as a public client, with 20 years of experience in land and real estate development in major projects for Greater Paris, and he conceives innovative design methods to accomplish the challenges of the transformation of our cities. He is originally trained as an architect and urbanist from the University of Algiers; Jon Kandel is retired from a 45-year career in graphic arts production and photography in New York City. During the past ten years he photographed numerous off-Broadway and Broadway plays, photographed cast photos for publicity use, and shot staged photos for advertising use; Stefan Paeleman is a Belgian real estate developer and former interior designer, who is currently developing a site in the south of the Belgium city of Antwerp, called “Nieuw Zuid”. Born in Gent, Belgium, Paeleman had his own interior design office for 15 years, before he switched sides and founded “Triple Living” alongside with Jeff Cavens in 2013; Benjamin Zagami is an urban designer and PhD candidate with the Design Futures Lab at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Through his research, Ben has formulated an approach for urban designers to open up modes of co-creation for clients in the process of designing for emerging urban futures; Ruth Jones is one of three co-editors in chief at The SITE Magazine, Canada’s oldest independent architecture and urbanism periodical. She holds a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from UCLA. Her research focuses on subjectivity, social context, and language as a site of representation; Jennifer Davis practices architecture, art, and independent curating on Toronto, Canada. She holds a Master of Architecture (2011) from University of Toronto where she is a Sessional Lecturer. Davis has worked at design offices in New York, Madrid, and Toronto and has written for Canadian Architect, Edge Condition, and The SITE Magazine; Nicholas Pajerski is an architect from Nebraska. During the day he is a Design Lead at IDEO in San Francisco, and is a lecturer at the California College of the Arts and UC Berkeley. Remaining hours are devoted to Reimaging, an architectural collaborative, and 2426 SET, an Architectural Gallery – both based in Los Angeles; GruppoTorto, founded in 2016, is a research collective of young architects who graduated at Politecnico di Milano and work now in different international studios across Europe. The main research topics revolve around architecture and urbanism whereby the focus is directed on the analysis of a dysfunctional conditions of our cities; Nicole Lambrou is a practicing architect, urban designer, and researcher. Her work documents the work of planners, engineers, designers, ecologists, and everyday urban dwellers in making new natures in their cities, and explores the values and spatial imaginaries that drive their efforts; Jeffrey Kruth is an urbanist and educator at the Kent State University Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC). He is also the American Council on Germany’s McCloy Fellow on Global Trends for 2017-18. His work on vacancy, risk and urban policy can be found in CLOG, PLAT and the book Urban Re-industrialization; Liz Teston is a designer and Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture at the University of Tennessee. Teston researches interiority, design politics, and the everyday. Her work has appeared in Interior Architecture Theory Reader and ii-journal. She is the current Dudley Faculty Scholar and will be a Fulbright Scholar in 2018; Colin Davies is a UK based academic and writer. He studied Art History, and Social Anthropology at SOAS. He has lectured in the UK, Europe and the USA on design and architecture. His current project is: vernacular mark-making as a radical alternative to modernist influenced design in the Black Power movement; Ana Medina is an architect who develops her PhD at Polytechnic University of Madrid. Her work explores contemporary occupations and the configuration of post-public spaces. She is International Fellow at Keio University, Tokyo, and has been Visiting Scholar at CRA in Goldsmiths University. Ana is co-founder and editorial board of Displacements journal; Víctor Cano Ciborro is an architect and a PhD candidate at ETSAM. His line of enquiry has been recognized at Oslo Architecture Triennial 2016, Venice Biennale 2016, Future Architecture 2017 or XX Chile Biennial. Currently, he is co-founder and editor of ‘Displacements: an x’scape Journal’, and CEO/ Research Project Director of ‘Arquitectura Subalterna’; Stephan Petermann holds a Master’s degree in the History of Architecture and the Theory of Building Preservation from the University of Utrecht (2001-2007) and studied Architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven (2001-2005). He joined OMA/AMO in 2006 assisting OMA’s founder Rem Koolhaas with lectures, texts and research; Avar Gürpnar is a scholar, designer and engineer. He currently works at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Faculty of Architecture. His areas of research focus on critical design, cultural studies and history of design. Gürpnar has curated The New Domesticity: Furniture Issue exhibition in Dutch Design Week 2016 in Eindhoven; Nur Horsanal graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University’s Industrial Product Design department and will start her master’s studies at Aalto University’s Product and Spatial Design programme. Along with product design, she is interested in photography, documentation, editorial design, and design research; Levi Bryant is a Professor of Philosophy at Collin College, outside of Dallas, Texas. He has written widely on Deleuze, Badiou, Lacan, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and materiality. He is the author of The Democracy of Objects, and Onto-Cartography: An Ontology of Machines and Media; Kyle Miller is Architecture Program Director at Syracuse University in Florence, Assistant Professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture and Co-Founder of Possible Mediums. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan TCAUP and the University of California – Los Angeles AUD; Masha Hupalo is trained as an architect. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree concerning urban territories, new technologies and networked infrastructures at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. Besides working in architecture practices in Vienna, she took part in several group exhibitions in Europe and Asia; Hester van Gent works as an urban planner and writer. She studied Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology, and attended a postacademic course in Scientific Journalism as well as a masterclass on Architecture Criticism. She has written journalistic pieces, essays and reviews on urbanism, architecture and art; Slinkachu is an artist who has been “abandoning” his miniature people on the streets of cities around the world since 2006. His work embodies elements of street art, sculpture, installation art and photography and has been exhibited in galleries and museums globally. His images have been collected in three best-selling art books; Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His work and lectures have been presented at many museums, galleries, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale, the Chaos Computer Congress, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media Arts Festival; Benedetta Marani is a researcher at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies in Politecnico di Milano. She is currently involved in several projects dealing with the redefinition of welfare spaces and policies in Milan and she works as a tutor in different bachelor and master degree courses; Nicholas de Monchaux is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UC Berkeley, where he is Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo and Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design and the Nature of Cities; James Longfield completed his PhD by creative practice in Architecture at Newcastle University, becoming the department’s first candidate to do so. His work is focussed on the possibilities of architecture as a socially and spatially situated practice. He has recently launched his own practice - James Longfield Studio; STAR strategies + architecture is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam, founded by Beatriz Ramo in 2006. STAR is a practice dealing with architecture in all its forms and is interested in all topics directly or indirectly related to architecture, working on projects and doing research in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and landscape design; Beatriz Ramo is a Spanish architect and urbanist. She studied at the ETSA in Valencia and at the TU in Eindhoven. She founded STAR strategies + architecture in Rotterdam in 2006. She is currently focusing on housing and is developing a project of 280 experimental apartments in the south of Paris. Before opening STAR Beatriz Ramo worked at OMA; BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design) is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam that was founded in 2005 by Bernd Upmeyer. The office is active in many fields: as an architecture and urban design practice, as a research board and as a platform for comparative analysis on urban issues through MONU – Magazine on Urbanism; Nadine Botha is an editor and curator. She has recently graduated from the Masters Design Curating and Writing programme at Design Academy Eindhoven, cum laude and nominated for both the Gijs Bakker and Best Thesis awards, with her research project on the politics of the portable flush toilet in Cape Town; Joshua Bolchover is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on the complex urban-rural ecology of cities. He set up Rural Urban Framework with John Lin in 2005 with the remit to create a not-for-profit agency as a platform for design and research; Fabiano Micocci holds a PhD in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Florence. He is teaching at the Metropolitan College of Athens and at the University of Thessaly. He is a co-founder of NEAR Architecture, a design and research practice based in Athens and Rome; Marco Casagrande is a Finnish architect, artist, theorist, and militant ecologist. He created the architectural offices Casagrande & Rintala in 1998 and Casagrande Laboratory in 2003. Casagrande taught at Bergen School of Architecture, Norway and was a visiting professor at Tamkang University Department of Architecture, Taiwan; Lars Lerup is a designer and writer and a Professor of Architecture at Rice School of Architecture. Previously, he taught for many years at the University of California at Berkeley. His work focuses on the intersection of nature and culture in the contemporary American metropolis, and on Houston in particular; Bernd Upmeyer is a Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel (Germany); David Karle is an Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he teaches courses on architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. His research focuses on factors outside the discipline including policy, settlement, mobility, technology, resources, ecologies, and natural systems impacting patterns of urbanism; Caitlin Tangeman is a Master of Architecture candidate and teaching assistant in the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research investigates the effects of rural patterns of urbanism based on the mechanization of agriculture, a non-diversified economic base, and a national rural-urban divide; Ian Caine is an architect and urbanist who explores the form, processes and impacts of suburban expansion. He is on faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Researcher with the Spatial History Project at Stanford University. He holds a SMArchS degree in Architecture + Urbanism from MIT; STAR strategies + architecture was founded by architect and urbanist Beatriz Ramo in Rotterdam in 2006. STAR is a practice dealing with architecture in all its forms and is interested in all topics directly or indirectly related to architecture, working on projects and doing research in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and landscape design; BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design) is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam that was founded in 2005 by Bernd Upmeyer. The office is active in many fields: as an architecture and urban design practice, as a research board and as a platform for comparative analysis on urban issues through MONU - Magazine on Urbanism; Bernd Belina is Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. His research interests include historico-geographical materialism, urban political geography, and critical criminology. He is the author of "Raum," a German-language introduction to Marxist theories of social space from 2013; Roger Keil is York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University in Toronto. He researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology and regional governance. Keil is the editor of Suburban Constellations (Jovis 2013) and co-editor (with Pierre Hamel) of Suburban Governance: A Global View (UTP 2015); Mario Matamoros has a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture. He lectures at the Honduran Autonomous University and is a current member of The Honduran Architects' Association and Tegucigalpa's Ecological Foundation. His researches focus on urban migration, behavior and landscape perception, while his projects also take place in Tegucigalpa's Metropolitan region; Floris Alkemade is a Dutch architect, urban designer, and since 2015 the Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands. From 2001 until 2008 he was one of the partners of the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). In 2008 he founded his own office Floris Alkemade Architect (FAA); Carlo Pisano is an architect and urbanist, PhD. In 2011 and 2012 he worked for the Studio Associato Bernardo Secchi e Paola Viganò and from 2013 he has been lecturer, professor under contract and visiting critic in many European universities; Yannis Tzaninis is a social geographer interested in the production of social space and the interplay of urban centre and periphery in the context of globalized capitalism. He conducted his PhD research on Almere's transformations as an appointment at the department of Sociology of the University of Amsterdam; Maarten Gheysen is Architect, Urban Designer and PhD-candidate at the Department of Architecture (University of Leuven, Belgium). He combines this with a position as urban designer at the municipal development agency Leiedal (B), dealing with different types of urban questions in relation to design, including the redevelopment of the riverbanks of the Leie in Kortrijk; Kris Scheerlinck is Architect, Urban Designer and Associated Professor at the Department of Architecture (University of Leuven, Belgium). He runs his own research and design practice and currently directs an international research project called 'Streetscape Territories', promoting related PhD research projects. His expertise is on the analysis of public-private gradients in urban projects; Erik Van Daele is Dr in architecture, architect, urbanist and planner and master in theory and history of architecture (KUL). He is lecturer and studio master at the KULeuven and works as consultant in the design firm uapS, Paris. In his research he explores small scale design challenges in the dispersed city; Keller Easterling is an architect, writer, and professor at Yale University. Her most recent book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity. Easterling has lectured and published widely in the United States and abroad; Judith K. De Jong is an architect, urbanist, and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, whose research explores opportunities for design innovation in architectures and urbanisms of mass culture. Her book, New SubUrbanisms, is available from Routledge; Michael Wolf is a German artist and photographer, who lives and works in Hong Kong and Paris. The focus of his work is life in mega cities. Many of his projects have been published as books and were exhibited at numerous locations. In 2005 and 2010, he won the first prize in the World Press Photo Award Competition; Rugile Ropolaite is a graduate from KU Leuven, Sint Lucas School of Architecture, where she studied Urban Projects, Urban Cultures and University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, where she was part of the Megacity Design Lab, working on a project in Cikini slum, Jakarta; Ivan Valin is currently an assistant professor of landscape architecture and director of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines alternative paradigms for nature in the city, specifically looking at the histories, forms and impacts of landscape systems in tropical and developing cities; Natalia Echeverri is an adjunct assistant professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong where she teaches undergraduate and graduate studio courses where she brings particular expertise in urban design to the landscape and architecture programs; Constantina Theodorou is an architect-researcher with studies on film-directing and PhD candidate on Urbanism, Dept. of Architecture NTUA. Her work combines theoretical analyses on urbanism with narrative practices implemented on the urban field in the center of Athens; Alexandros Zomas is an architect AUTH, MSC NTUA and a PhD candidate at the NTUA, in the fields of landscape, city and ecology. He is founding member and principal architect at Micromega Architecture & Strategies, an architectural and urban design office that has been awarded in national and international competitions; Mara Papavasileiou is an architect NTUA, with a Master in Urban and Regional Strategies from Sciences Po Paris and a PhD candidate at the NTUA, in the fields of city and productive landscapes. She is founding member and principal architect at Micromega Architecture & Strategies, an architectural and urban design office based in Athens; Bianca Elzenbaumer is a design researcher and associate professor at Leeds College of Art (UK); Fabio Franz is a research assistant at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) and a doctoral candidate at the Sheffield School of Architecture (UK). They work together as Brave New Alps; Hannes Langguth is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Habitat Unit, Department of International Urbanism and Design, TU Berlin (GER) where he has established the long-term Teaching-Research Project "Studio Rural+" engaging with post-rural transformation processes across Europe and China; Mark Power is an English photographer, born in Harpenden, England. For many years his work has been seen in numerous galleries and museums across the world, and is in several important collections, both public and private. He is visiting Professor of Photography at the University of Brighton; Jasna Mariotti studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje and TU Delft where she graduated cum laude. In 2014 she received her PhD from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana on the theme of post-socialist cities and their urban transformations. At present she is Unit Tutor at Queen’s University Belfast; Gruia Badescu is a Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Oxford. His research and practice are focused on the relationship between urban reconfigurations and dealing with the past, working in a variety of contexts, from ex-Yugoslav cities to the Caucasus and the Middle East; Kai Vöckler is an urbanist based in Offenbach, Germany. Founding member of Archis Interventions, he is Professor for Creativity in Urban Contexts at the Offenbach University of Art and Design. Kai Vöckler has participated in landscape, architectural and artistic competitions and design projects all over Europe; Jonas König is a researcher in Urban and Regional Economics at HafenCity University Hamburg. He has also taught in the Digital Media programme of Leuphana University Lüneburg and at Istanbul Technical University; Alexander Kleibrink serves as Policy Analyst with the European Commission. He is Senior Fellow at the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building and Associated Fellow at the Free University Berlin. His main areas of expertise are regional development and innovation policy, and he has engaged in several projects on good governance; Arnis Balcus is a photographer from Riga, Latvia. He has BA in Communication Studies from the University of Latvia and MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster. He is also editor-in-chief of photography magazine FK. In most of his photographic work he examines Latvian identity, historical taboos and social-political agendas; Tomas Grunskis is an architect, Ph.D. He is an Assoc. Professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. His research interests involve urban public space and creative experiments in architecture. He is the founder and head of the architectural studio AEXN in Vilnius; Milda Paceviciute is a Master of Architecture graduate from KU Leuven, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels, with a Master Thesis under the topic “Collective Urban Spaces of Super-Diversity. Collective Space Inhabiting the Border in Belfast”. Previously she studied at Queen’s University Belfast and at the Vilnius Art Academy, Kaunas Faculty; Burak Pak is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture. Burak’s research covers architecture and urban design, participation and digital spatial media. He is currently teaching the Urban Design Studio, Dissertation Studio (International Masters, Brussels Campus) and Design Studio (Masters, Urban and Spatial Planning) Courses at the KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture; Bart Lootsma is a historian, theoretician, critic and curator in the fields of architecture, design and the visual arts. He is Head of the Institute for Architectural Theory, History and Heritage Preservation at the University of Innsbruck. He publishes the web magazines architecturaltheory.eu, architecturaltheory.txt and architecturaltheory.tv; Dijana Vuinic is currently leading a team developing many emerging projects in architecture and urbanism. She is a commissioner for the Montenegrin pavilion at the XV Venice Architecture Biennale and was a curator for the Montenegrin pavilion at the XIV Venice Biennale. She is also the founder of Kotor APSS - architecture summer academy, a practicing architect, and the founder of the interdisciplinary practice DVARP; Marco Scarpinato is an architect and landscape designer, and member of the ERAMC in the ENAU-Tunis. Lucia Pierro is an architect, PhD at Politecnico di Milano. They are the founders of AutonomeForme, Architettura, an interdisciplinary team based in Palermo aiming at defining urban strategies with an ecological and sustainable approach, based on the relationship between architecture and landscape; Martynas Mankus is an architect and PhD candidate of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University based in Vilnius. He frequently collaborates with national and international architectural magazines and websites; Thomas Cole is a Lecturer in the Interior and Spatial Design program at The University of Technology Sydney. Trained in architecture, he has worked in both Australia and The People’s Republic of China. Currently his work in both research and practice investigates site-specific narratives in public space; Julien Lombardi studied first ethnology. He turned to photography eventually as a means of achieving an artistic investigation. His work is part of collections such as BnF and Chateau d’Eau in particular. He has received several awards including the Bourse du talent, the Marco Pesaresi Award and the Kaunas Photo Star Award; Florence Twu is a Taiwanese-American writer, designer, and artist. She is interested in the role of space in our contemporary political economy and its relationship to power/knowledge. Her recent written work has been published in MAS Context, LOBBY, and Dichotomy. In design practice, she has contributed to projects ranging from multi-media installations to super tall buildings; Suzanne Harris-Brandts is a Canadian architect and PhD student in Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her work examines the politics of architecture, particularly with regards to symbolisms of power and national identity in the post-Soviet South Caucasus; Joseph Godlewski, Ph.D is an architectural theorist, historian, and practitioner. He teaches courses in theory and design at the Syracuse University School of Architecture. His current research focuses on urbanization in developing contexts and the interrelationship between economics and the cultural production of space; Claire Lubell is a Canadian designer, researcher and editor and a graduate from The Berlage Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design. Her work merges critical urban theory, geography, and architecture to relate the production of space in such seemingly unrelated cities as Toronto, Johannesburg, Seoul, and Marseille; Gvido Princis is the Director of the Office of the Riga City Architect – the Riga City Architect. He joined the Riga City Council City Development Department in 2000 and since then his career was initially linked to the Riga City Council. He holds the diploma in architecture issued by Riga Technical University, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning; Sandra Parvu is a faculty member in the School of Architecture Paris-Val de Seine and a research fellow in the Architecture Anthropology Lab (LAA/ LAVUE). Sandra’s research focuses on politics of landscape architecture, large-scale planning, postwar urbanism, and urbanrenewal. She has published Grands ensembles en situation. Journal de bord de quatre chantiers (Metispresses, 2011); Julia Autz graduated with a degree in Photography and Design from the University of Applied Sciences in Damstadt, and has been working as a freelance photographer since. Her collections have been exhibited in Germany, Poland, Georgia and Slovenia. Her work won at the Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, and has been short listed for the Felix Schoeller photo award and the Kolga Tbilisi Photo; Andrés Jaque is a Spanish architect. In 2003 he founded the Office for Political Innovation, a trans-disciplinary agency. He is Advanced Design Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation GSAPP, Columbia University, and Visiting Professor at Princeton University SoA; Sander Hölsgens is a trained photographer and filmmaker from the Netherlands. He’s currently undertaking a PhD in architectural design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; Justinien Tribillon is an urbanist and writer. Born and bred in Paris, he is now based in London. Justinien explores cities with ideas, concepts, images, quantitative and qualitative data. He works with architecture practices, municipalities and research centres in Paris and London. He writes for The Guardian and other publications; CENTRALA undertakes projects that attempt to provoke public debate on the protection and revitalization of modern heritage. Actions, urban interventions, and publications are impulses to re-examine reality, as well as the imagination of the structure of Warsaw; Simone De Iacobis is a member of the design group Centrala. He studied architecture in Rome, where he graduated in 2007 and attended a two-year program of a basic and advanced course of photography. Simone de Iacobis works as a lecturer in many workshops for architectural students and as a blogger; Magorzata Kuciewicz is the co-founder and member of the design group CENTRALA, engaged in an attempt to critically shape the future. Her work focuses on residential experiments, urban activism, the organisation of exhibitions, debates, and education as well as urban, corporate and industrial design; Aleksandra Kedziorek is an art historian and a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Her major interest lies in exploring the intersection of architecture and the visual arts, and experimental approaches to art and architecture pedagogy; Lucía Jalón Oyarzun is an architect by the ETSAM School of Architecture of Madrid where she currently works on her PhD thesis ‘What a body can do: the political as generator of a common spatiality’. Since 2013 she is editor-in-chief of displacements: an x’scape journal and teaches Philosophy and History of Art at SUR Escuela Madrid; Luca Lazzarini studied Urban Planning and Policy Design at Politecnico di Milano. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Urban and Regional Development at the Interuniversity Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning at Politecnico di Torino. His main research interests relates to inter-municipal urban planning and urban projects; åyr is an art collective based in London whose work focuses on contemporary forms of domesticity founded by Fabrizio Ballabio, Alessandro Bava, Luis Ortega Govela and Octave Perrault; Fabrizia Berlingieri is an architect and Post-doc researcher. She is currently Adjunct Professor at Politecnico of Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies and Guest researcher at TU Delft, Department of Architecture. She runs her own architectural office in Cosenza, Italy; Aron Bohmann studied Urban Planning, Urban Design and Social Science in Vienna, Hamburg, Istanbul and London. His focus topics cover housing conditions as well as the interconnections between everyday life and structural attributes. He is working as a researcher at LSE Cities in London; Charlotte Herbst studied Urban Planning and Urban Design at HafenCity University in Hamburg, Germany. Her core themes are housing issues and transformation processes. Currently she works as an urban planner and researcher for bpw| Baumgart+partner in Bremen; Cookies is a collective of four designers based in Rotterdam. Formed by Antonio Barone, Alice Grégoire, Federico Martelli and Clément Périssé in 2015, Cookies works as a production platform and catalyzer for art and architecture, product and exhibition design, curation, and research; Nele Aernouts is an architect and PhD researcher at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Since 2013 she has been conducting research on forms of collective dwelling that addresses the housing needs of underprivileged groups; Sofie Van der Linden is a visual artist. She uses the familiar feel of a home, a trusted environment or a daily routine and elevates them from commonplace surroundings to intriguing architectural drawings; Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller are principals of AGENCY, an interdisciplinary practice engaging contemporary culture through architecture, urbanism, and advocacy. Their projects range from media environments, to guerrilla infrastructures, architecture, and speculative urban research; Ioanna Piniara is a graduate of the “Instead (Parapoesis)” Postgraduate Studies programme in Architectural Design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, Greece (2013-2015) and she has recently been offered a place on the PhD in Architectural Design programme at the Architectural Association, London for the 2016/2017 academic year; Neeraj Bhatia is an architect and urban designer. He is principal of the design practice, The Open Workshop, and an Assistant Professor at the California College of the Arts where he Co-Directs The Urban Works Agency; Christopher A. Roach is a San Francisco based architect, urbanist, and educator. He is founding principal of Studio VARA and Adjunct Professor of architecture at California College of the Arts, where he co-directs CCA’s Urban Works Agency; Casco is an open and public space for artistic research and experiments. Casco considers artistic practice as a way of engaging with the world we live in and as an investigative, imaginative, and inventive practice. Founded in 1990, Casco is located in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands; Jasna Mariotti studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje and TU Delft where she graduated cum laude. In 2014 she received her PhD from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana on the theme of post-socialist cities and their urban transformations. At present she is Unit Tutor at Queen’s University Belfast; STAR strategies + architecture is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam that was founded by Beatriz Ramo in 2006. Currently the office is part of the Scientific Committee of the AIGP-Atelier International du Grand Paris and the architect of an experimental housing project of 330 apartments in the south of Paris; Julia Gatley is Head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has published four books with Auckland University Press. Julia is chair of DOCOMOMO New Zealand; Marco Moro graduated from the University of Architecture of Cagliari, Italy, with a thesis entitled “The Agrarian Project: Incubation forms for rural landscape”, focused on territorial strategies for the Rural District Governance in Sardinia; Simone Ferreli reads architecture in Cagliari, Italy, presenting a thesis on the evolution of the educational system as a complex and fruitful relationship between the University and the City; Herman Hertzberger is a Dutch architect and professor emeritus. Hertzberger may be considered, along with Aldo van Eyck, as the main influence behind the Dutch structuralist movement of the 1960s. He believed that the architect’s role was not to provide a complete solution, but to provide a spatial framework to be eventually filled in by the users; Jeremy Till is an architect, writer and educator. He is head of Central Saint Martins and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Arts, London. Previously, he was Dean of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster, and Professor of Architecture and Head of School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield; Carolyn Sponza is an architect, planner and urbanist who lives and works in Washington, DC. She authored a dissertation on temporary urbanism in 2011, and recently brought her academic interests into reality by helping produce DC’s first semi-permanent pop-up park in two parking spaces in front of her office; Gonzalo J López is a Spanish Architect, with a Masters in Architecture from the Architecture School of Barcelona (ETSAB). Since 2012 he has been editor and writer for the blog OpenSourceUrbanism. Lopez is also co-founder of knitknot architecture, a collective structure experimenting with new ways of addressing professional practice; Verena Lenna is architect and urbanist. She started to investigate the relation between labour, capital and space in New York City, in the framework of a participatory action research at the New School. As a PhD candidate in Urbanism (IUAV, Venice and KU Leuven) she focuses on the relation between welfare (state), the space of the city and urban movements; Moana Heussler studied architecture at the ETH in Zurich and absolved a CAS in „communal, regional and urban development“. She worked at the office of urbanism of the city of Zurich, since 2014 she is a scientific assistant for research at the University of Applied Studies ZHAW in Winterthur; Peter Jenni studied architecture in Biel and absolved the master course in urbanism in Barcelona. From 2006 to 2013 Peter Jenni worked in research and teaching at the ZHAW where he today works as lecturer of architecture and urbanism. He runs his own office for architecture and urbanism www.jenniarchitektur.ch in Zurich; Stefan Kurath studied architecture in Switzerland and the Netherlands. After a MAS at the ETH Zurich in landscape architecture graduated as Dr.-Ing. specialising in urban planning in Hamburg. Besides different teaching activities he runs his own office www.urbanplus.ch. Since 2014 Stefan Kurath works as co-director of the Institut Urban Landscape; Uta Gelbke is a freelance writer, publicist and lecturer in architecture and urban planning. In 2015, she completed her PhD in urban studies. Her research focuses on the design, perception and appropriation of public space following formal political change. It also examines informal political movements and alternative models of urban design and life; Nina Gribat is a senior researcher at the Habitat Unit, Department for International Urbanism and Design (TU Berlin). The current focus of her research is on perspectives of planners on urban conflicts and on urban decline. Nina studied Architecture and Urban Planning at several Universities in Germany and the UK; Hannes Langguth is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Habitat Unit, Department for International Urbanism and Design (TU Berlin), where he also teaches. Hannes studied Architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; Mario Schulze is a Post-Doc researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung”, Humboldt University Berlin. He recently handed in his PhD-thesis at the Institute of Cultural Analysis, University of Zurich. Mario taught at Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Zurich, Goethe University of Frankfurt/ Main and the University of Leipzig; Damon Rich is a designer, urban planner, and visual artist, based in Newark, New Jersey. In 1997, Rich founded the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a New York City-based nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to improve civic engagement. He now is principal with Jae Shin of planning and design firm Hector Design Service; Stefan Gruber is an architect and founder of STUDIOGRUBER working at the intersection of architectural design and urbanism, with a particular interest in the negotiation of bottom-up transformations and top-down planning. He is the co-initiator of “Spaces of Commoning”, an ongoing interdisciplinary research project funded by the WWTF for two years; Nele Aernouts is an architect, urban designer and PhD researcher of the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Thomas Decreus is a researcher, writer and journalist. He holds a PhD degree in political philosophy and currently teaches neo-marxist theory in the University of Leuven. His work focuses on hegemony, democracy and political representation; Andrea Spreafico is a performance director based in Bergen (Norway). Andrea studied Ethics and Aesthetics in Bologna and Reims (PhD in 2006) and Art and Public Space in Nuremberg (Postgraduate Diploma in 2008). He is currently a teacher of participatory approaches to urbanism at the Bergen School of Architecture; Marina Abramovic is a Serbian performance artist based in New York. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on “confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body.”; Tom Marble is an American architect, who graduated from UC Berkeley and Yale. He worked for firms as diverse as SOM and Morphosis, Chermayeff & Geismar and The Irvine Company. Since 2001, his practice, Marbletecture, has divided its time between designing buildings, writing about cities, and teaching, which he has done at USC, Woodbury University, Colorado College, and SCI-Arc; [SIC] is a professional architecture office that focuses on architecture, the city and the territory from a multidisciplinary, proactive and committed point of view; [VIC] is an open-source platform and a collaborative project that has been initiated to promote, spread, analyze and support citizen initiatives in a proactive way and throughout all the layers of society; Luis Eduardo González is a Chilean architect with a Master’s degree in Residential Habitat. He is a co-researcher at the Reconstruction Observatory, University of Chile. He was also the Coordinator of “Sustainable development in emergency context” session in Encuentros ChileGlobal 2015, The Netherlands. From 2009 to 2014, he worked for the Chilean government; Serafina Amoroso is currently working as a lecturer under contract in an Architectural Design Studio at the School of Architecture of Florence and as a secondary school teacher. She holds a PhD degree in Architectural and Urban Design and got a Master degree in Advanced Architectural Design from the ETSAM; Sheryl-Ann Simpson is an Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design Program at the University of California, Davis, US. She holds a PhD in city planning, and studies the production of place and the relationships between states and communities through lens of immigration, health and housing; Jaffer Kolb is a New York-based designer and lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. His work is dedicated to finding new sites for architecture in political and material economies through experiments in preservation and form; and has been shown and published internationally. Previously he was a curator and critic working between London and Los Angeles; Anya Sirota is principal of the Detroit-based studio Akoaki and an assistant professor in architecture at the University of Michigan. Her work at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and art explores innovative socio-spatial strategies for urban activation. She received her masters of architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design; Cathy Smith is an architect, interior designer and academic. In her current role as Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Newcastle, Cathy teaches contemporary history and theory, and architectural design. Her research concentrates on the theories and practices of DIY (Do It Yourself) in architecture and urbanism; Jean-Louis Missika is a French sociologist. He is a member of the Council of Paris and assistant Mayor of Paris in charge of urban planning, architecture, projects of Greater Paris, economic development, and attractiveness. He is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and the University Panthéon-Sorbonne in economic sciences and philosophy; Merve Bedir graduated from Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture in Ankara, Turkey in 2003. Having practiced in different design and construction projects in Turkey, Egypt and Georgia until 2008, she moved to Rotterdam for her PhD in Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture; Antonio Petrov is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Texas San Antonio. In the past two years he has been appointed as co-program director of the Expander at Archeworks in Chicago, and Caudill Visiting Critic at the Rice University. Antonio received his doctoral degree in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism, and cultural studies from Harvard University; Maier Yagod is a licensed architect, an independent researcher and a correspondent for playscapes.com. He holds a Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto and a Bachelors degree in History and Ancient Near East Studies from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the founder of “Matters - Jerusalem” and the “Jerusalem Playground and Open Spaces Design and Research Group”; Kolar Aparna is currently working as a researcher at the Nijmegen Center for Border Research, Radboud University. Her current project investigates the contestations of borders of hospitality/hostility of EUrope towards and by ‘asylum-seekers’ and ‘undocumented migrants’ in the production of urban space; Justin Hui is an American architect currently based in Hong Kong. His work focuses on architecture and urbanism in relation to globalization and the collective memory of cities. He has worked on institutional projects for Herzog & de Meuron, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and Kennedy & Violich Architecture; Laura M. Henneke graduated in Urban Design and Architecture from TU Berlin and Tongji University Shanghai. Her thesis ‘Arab Migrants in the City of Yiwu – A Case Study of the Impact of ‘The New Silk Road’ on Chinese Urban Development’ has triggered her enthusiasm for research in the urban context with a focus on transnational migration flows and their impact on socio-spatiality; Malte Wandel is a photographer and filmmaker from Munich, Germany. He studied photography and media arts in Dortmund, Zurich and Cologne. Since 2007, he has frequently travelled to South Africa and Mozambique working on different topics. In 2011, Malte Wandel moved to West Africa for almost one year; Bernd Upmeyer is a Rotterdam-based architect and urbanist. He is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel (Germany); Pepijn Bakker is an architect who researches, teaches, and organises debates about spatial planning in the Netherlands. Pepijn studied Architecture and Planning at Eindhoven University of Technology and graduated with honors in 2009. He worked at MVRDV office in Rotterdam and Koen van Velsen architects in Hilversum; Rutger Huiberts is a New York based architect with a background in urban planning. Rutger has worked on mixed-use architectural and urban design projects in the practices of KPF in New York and London and MVRDV in Rotterdam. In 2011 he obtained an MSc from Delft University of Technology with cum laude distinction; Thomas Mical is Associate Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of South Australia School of Art, Architecture, and Design. He completed his M.Arch. At Harvard GSD with a thesis on Blade Runner Urbanism, and his Ph.D. At Georgia Tech. His current research examines the hypermodern condition, transparency and invisibility, and spatial alterity; Dalal Musaed Alsayer is a Kuwaiti architect, urban designer and researcher interested in the architecture, urbanism and landscapes of the Arabian Gulf cities within the larger context of the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently pursuing a Master in Design Studies [MDes] with a concentration in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; Yehre Suh is the Principal of the Office of Urban Terrains and is a licensed architect in the State of New York and New Jersey, USA and is LEED AP BD+C accredited. She is currently the Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Seoul National University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Director of Urban Terrains Lab and the Curator of Asian Urbanism at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, Korea; Agatino Rizzo, Ph.D., works as a senior lecturer of urban planning and design in the Architecture Research Group at Lulea University of Technology (Sweden). Between 2010 and 2013, dr. Rizzo worked as an assistant professor at Qatar University and senior lecturer at University Technology Malaysia; Kyle Hovenkotter is a designer, researcher and educator in Brooklyn, New York. He has been working professionally as an architectural, graphic, experience designer and strategist for 7 years in New York City, Brooklyn and Seattle. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute; Trevor Lamphier is an architectural designer in New York City working with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, contributing to both their art and architecture practices. His work co opts the familiar and redeploys it as an instrument of both design and critique. He graduated with a Masters in Architecture from Columbia University; Zoé Renaud completed her Master of Architecture at the University of Toronto. Her thesis project: “The Way We Work: Towards a Typology of Spaces of Work for the City”, partially published here, is part of her ongoing interest in the socio-political interactions within architecture and the city. As an architect, she trained at Lateral Office in Toronto, MVRDV in Rotterdam and Topotek1 in Berlin; Ulf Hannerz is a Swedish emeritus professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University. His research includes urban societies, local media cultures, transnational cultural processes, and globalization. He received his Ph.D. at Stockholm University in 1969 and has also taught at several American, European, Asian, and Australian universities; Paul Currion is a writer and consultant working at the intersection of humanitarianism, urbanism and culture. He previously worked in post-disaster countries including Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and has recently written a guide to humanitarian needs assessment in urban areas. He has an MSc in Architecture, specialising in Environmental and Energy Studies, and lives in Belgrade, where he is a member of Ko Gradi Grad and other urban initiatives; Giovanni Matteo Cudin graduated at the IUAV of Venice on City Planning, Territory and Environment and the University of Padua in History and Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Since 2014 he collaborates with the IUAV University making research about new ways for urban planning and urban renewal; Matilde Igual Capdevila studied architecture at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and at the ENSA Paris-Val de Seine. After graduating, she worked as an architect in small architecture offices. Since 2012 she lives in Vienna, where she studies at the Art & Science department at the Universität für angewandte Kunst; Jonathan A. Scelsa is an Architect + Urbanist in New York and is currently a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Jonathan received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University and his Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University; Amin Alsaden is an architect, critic, and historian. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His design experience involves a wide variety of projects, produced at a number of offices, most recently OMA and MVRDV in the Netherlands; Colleen Tuite is a designer, writer, and co-director of GRNASFCK, an experimental landscape studio. She is editor-in-chief of The Erratic and a regular contributor to MANIFEST: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism. She lives in New York; Brendan Cormier is a Canadian writer, editor, and urban designer, based in Holland. He is currently the managing editor of Volume. He regularly writes for Volume and various publications. He teaches at the Berlage and has taught in the past at Bruce Mau's Institute Without Boundaries in Toronto; Dalal Musaed Alsayer is a Kuwaiti architect, urban designer and researcher interested in architecture, urbanism and landscapes of the Arabian Gulf cities. She is currently pursuing a Master of Design Studies with a concentration in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; Mireille Roddier and Keith Mitnick are Associate Professors of Architecture at the University of Michigan. Their design work and writings has been published widely and won numerous awards and design competitions, including Architectural Record's annual Design Vanguard; Winy Maas is aDutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist. Maas is one of the co-founding directors of the globally operating architecture and urban planning firm MVRDV, based in Rotterdam. He is the director of The Why Factory, a research institute for the future city, he founded in 2008 at TU Delft; Beatriz Ramo is an architect and urbanist living and working in Rotterdam where she opened her own architecture firm STAR strategies + architecture in 2006. She studied at ETSAV at the Polytechnic school in Valencia and at the TU - Technical University in Eindhoven; Bernd Upmeyer is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel (Germany); Jesse Vogler is an artist and architect whose work investigates the intersection of landscape and law. In addition to his art and research practice, Jesse is a land surveyor, co-director of the Institute of Marking and Measuring, and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis; Michael Piper studies the form and organization of contemporary metropolitan regions. Piper is an Assistant Professor on the Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto and a principal at dub Studios - an architecture and urban design practice in New York and Los Angeles; James Khamsi is the founder of FIRM. James' work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia and has held positions at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, and Harvard; Candida Höfer is a German photographer known for her large-format images of architectural interiors. She has held numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States, and her work has been included in several group shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne; Shriya Malhotra is an urbanist and artist whose work considers alternative forms of city-making. Her research explores topics like participation, urban social movements, self-organization, and the role of art to transform public spaces in cities. She is a member of Partizaning, a Moscow-based urban art and activism collective; Serafina Amoroso is an Italian architect. After graduating in 2001 in Florence, where she began to develop her first professional contacts, in 2006 she got a PhD degree in Architectural and Urban Project in Reggio Calabria. She has been recently invited as Visiting Teacher to the Architectural Association in London; Christiane Lange is an Assistant Lecturer at The University of Hong Kong. She teaches in the Bachelor and MArch Program Architecture, Urban Design, as well as Visual Communication. Her research interest addresses the urbanization process of developing countries with the focus on China and Hong Kong; Susanne Trumpf is an architect and designer based in Hong Kong. With degrees from TU Delft and TU Berlin, she is currently working on various projects in Southeast Asia. In her research, she investigates the role of urbanism in society and its relation with political and cultural forces, particularly in Hong Kong; Michelle Xiaohong Ling is a Hong Kong and China-based architect. She got her Master of Architecture and Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong in 2000 and in 2008. Her design works "Campus in Weaving" and "Urban Housing Plus" have won several international awards; Inge Goudsmit was born in the Netherlands and studied architecture at Delft University of Technology and ETH Zurich. In 2005 she joined OMA in Rotterdam. In 2007 she moved to Beijing and two years later to Hong Kong to join OMA Asia, where she is a Project Architect; Adrienne Simons is a Dutch graphic designer and journalist, who lives and works in Hong Kong. She holds a Master in Arts (Utrecht University) and runs Studio Refill, a design studio, serving clients in both Europe and Asia. Before that she worked as a teacher and developer of educational materials; Petra Blaisse is a Dutch designer, who works in a multitude of creative areas, including textile, landscape and exhibition design. In 1991 she founded her own office "Inside Outside" in Amsterdam. Blaisse has lectured and taught extensively in Europe, Asia and the United States; Judith K. De Jong is an architect, urbanist, and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, whose research explores the opportunities for design innovation in architectures and urbanisms of mass culture. Her book, New SubUrbanisms (2013), is available from Routledge; David Karle is currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism; Kyle Reynolds is a co-founder of is-office and an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Reynolds was previously the Willard A. Oberdick Fellow at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Jordan Hicks works for Studio Gang Architects. Previously, he has worked for studioAPT, Milligram Office, and Master of None. He is a 2013 graduate of the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design, where he received a Masters of Architecture; Nikos Katsikis is an architect and urbanist and Doctoral Candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. At Harvard GSD he is research associate at New Geographies lab and Urban Theory lab since their foundation; Rania Ghosn is an architect, geographer and partner of Design Earth. She is currently assistant professor at the University of Michigan. Her work critically frames the urban condition at the intersection of politics, aesthetics and technological systems - be they energy, trash, or farming; El Hadi Jazairy is an architect and partner of Design Earth. He is currently assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, where he teaches courses in the architecture and urban design programs. His research investigates spaces of exception; Michaël Oliveira is an architect. He holds a MS from the Faculty of Architecture University of Porto, FAUP, and was Researcher at UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design. He has worked at Columbia University GSAPP´s Global Studio-X Rio, and at Álvaro Leite Siza Vieira Architect; David Morison is an urban designer with the City of Yarra in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked on architecture, masterplanning and urban design projects in Melbourne, Rotterdam and London. David has taught design studios at RMIT, Swinburne University and Deakin University; Bernardo Secchi is an Italian, internationally renowned, teacher, practitioner, and theoretician of urban planning. He has taught architecture and urbanism in many universities: Milan, Venice, Geneva, Leuven, Zurich, and Rennes. In Venice, he is professor emeritus of urbanism at the Venice School of Architecture; Bernd Upmeyer is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). He holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel; Jessica Bridger is a Berlin-based urbanist, journalist and consultant for projects related to the built environment. Her editorial, research and journalistic work is published internationally in books and magazines. She has a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University GSD; Neyran Turan is an architect, and currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University School of Architecture. She has received her doctoral degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), holds a masters degree from Yale University School of Architecture; Felipe Orensanz is co-founder of Zooburbia, an architecture and urbanism collective whose work spans a wide variety of fields including design, research and development of editorial projects; Roger Hubeli is an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University. He received his degree as an Architect from the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland. From 2008 to 2012, Roger was an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois School of Architecture at Urbana-Champaign; Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer. His work is included in the collections of over 65 major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California; Thomas Kohlwein is a writer and editor specializing in the relationship between literature and the built environment. As a passionate traveller, he explores places by reading them both through their architecture and literature. His work includes short stories, articles and web projects mapping the literature of New York and Sydney; Kees Lokman is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Washington University's Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts in St. Louis. He holds a Master of Science in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from Wageningen University and a Master of Design Studies from Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Ryan Dewey works on embodied cognition and visual attention, focusing on finding new ways to experience the world. He is a member of the Center for Cognition and Culture at Case Western Reserve University, and founder of Geologic Cognition Society (GeoCog.org); Lucas Correa-Sevilla is a licensed architect born and raised in Quito, Ecuador. He graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006 and received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2012; Pablo Pérez Ramos is an architect, landscape architect and researcher currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pablo is currently a Doctor of Design candidate at the GSD. He is also a Research Fellow at the New Geographies Lab and editor of the New Geographies journal at the GSD; Maider Uriarte Idiazabal is an architect and PhD candidate at the Department of Architecture at the University of the Basque Country and a guest doctorate student at the Landscape Architecture and Regional Open Space chair of the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Munich; Sean Burkholder holds a degree in Architecture from Miami University and a Masters degree of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is the assistant professor of landscape and urban design at the University of Buffalo; Bradford Watson is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at Montana State University. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from Pennsylvania State University and a Post-Professional Masters of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art; Christopher de Vries is the founder of the European Infrastructure Lab and Principal at CDVA. Christopher obtained a Masters Degree from MIT, a bachelor from TU Delft, and was part of the New Geographic research group at Harvard GSD; Clare Lyster is an architect, educator and writer in Chicago, where she runs CLUAA, a design and research based practice operating at the intersection of architecture, landscape and planning. She is an Associate Professor at the UIC School of Architecture; Bart Lootsma is a historian, theoretician, critic and curator in the fields of architecture, design and the visual arts. He is a Professor for Architectural Theory and Head of the Institute for Architectural Theory, History and Heritage Preservation at the University of Innsbruck; Antoine Grumbach is an architect, urbanist and professor at l'École d'architecture de Paris-Belleville. He graduated in architecture from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. In 1992 he won the Grand Prix National d'Urbanisme et d'Art Urbain; Beatriz Ramo is an architect and urbanist living and working in Rotterdam where she opened her own architecture firm STAR strategies + architecture in 2006. She studied at ETSAV at the Polytechnic school in Valencia and at the TU - Technical University in Eindhoven; Bernd Upmeyer is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD); Anton Ivanov is an architect currently based in Moscow, Russia. Ivanov graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute State Academy (MARCHI) in 2010. In 2012 he participated in the competition for the Expansion of the Moscow Agglomeration at OMA; Fabrizia Berlingieri graduated in 2003 in Architecture at the University of Reggio Calabria where she received in 2007 a PhD in Architecture and Urban Design; Manuela Triggianese graduated in Architecture at the University of Naples in 2010. She is a PhD candidate at TU Delft. Her field of research is complex projects related to the renewal of infrastructural areas; Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) is an international architectural practice based in London. Over three decades, RSHP has attracted critical acclaim and awards with built projects across Europe, North America and Asia; Calvin Chua is a London-based architectural designer and urbanist trained at the Architectural Association. Calvin has won several awards for his works, most recently the Wilmotte Foundation Prix W and has been a juror and tutor on urbanism; McLain Clutter is an architect, writer and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Clutter has lectured and exhibited his design work internationally; Malgorzata Kuciewicz is a cofounder and member of the design group Centrala. She studied architecture in Warsaw, Montpelier and Tampere, and gained experience at the Berlage institute in Amsterdam and at EASA workshops; Simone De Iacobis is a member of the design group Centrala. He studied architecture and photography in Rome and participated in several exhibitions including the "Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma"; Tom Marble is an architect, who studied at UC Berkeley and Yale. Marble worked for firms as diverse as SOM and Morphosis, Chermayeff & Geismar and The Irvine Company; OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA sustains an international practice with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, and Hong Kong; Clément Blanchet is a French architect, teacher and critic, actively practicing in the fields of architectural theory, urbanism, and cultural investigations. He is an Associate of OMA and director of OMA's French projects; Rob Holmes is currently the Trott Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Ohio State University. He also teaches and practices landscape architecture in Virginia, at Virginia Tech and with Michael Vergason Landscape Architects; Christopher Marcinkoski is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a MArch from Yale University and a BArch from The Pennsylvania State University; Hannah Hunt Moeller is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She holds a B.S.Arch and a Master of Science in Architecture, specializing in cultural heritage conservation; Ognen Marina, PhD, is a practicing architect and Assistant Professor at Faculty of Architecture, University "St. Cyril and Methodius" in Skopje. His main field of interest is in research of dynamic 3D city models and novel structures in architecture; James Khamsi received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, and his Masters of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has taught at Cornell, University of Toronto, Parsons and Harvard; Emily A. Goldman is currently working on a PhD in City & Regional Planning at Cornell University; her track is Historic Preservation Planning. She went on major in History at Harvard College, with a concentration in International Relations; Panos Dragonas is an architect based in Athens. He is an Associate Professor of architecture and urban design at the University of Patras and Joint Commissioner & Curator of the Greek participation at la Biennale di Venezia "Made in Athens" (2012); Petros Phokaides is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece and a Researcher at Mesarch Lab, in University of Cyprus. He received his Masters in Science and Diploma in Architecture from NTUA; Iris Polyzos is a doctoral candidate in thesis co-supervision between the National Technical University of Athens and the University of Poitiers. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Crete and an M.A. at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Loukas Triantis is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece and an urban planner in Thymio Papayannis & Associates, Inc. in Athens; Julie Bogdanowicz works in architecture and urbanism. She is also an instructor of architecture at the University of Toronto. She has published essays, drawings and photographs in Domus, the Canadian Architect and Volume; Jennifer W. Leung is a faculty member at the Yale School of Architecture. She worked in the offices of Stan Allen Architect, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture; Rikhard Manninen is the head of the Strategic Planning Division in the City Planning Department of Helsinki. Before his present position he worked as an urban planner and as a researcher in the field of urban sociology; Flavien Menu is an architect and town planner. His interest for the metropolis began when he worked on the Grand Paris project with l'AUC; Martin Abbott is a Master of Architecture graduate from the University Technology Sydney who lives currently in Berlin. Martin has worked on a number of diverse projects encompassing multiple scales, type and areas of interest; Rainer Langhans is a German author and filmmaker. He is known most of all for his membership of the legendary "Kommune I" which was established in Berlin in 1967 and through which he gained popstar-status in the Germany of the 1960s and 1970s; Bernd Upmeyer is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU Magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD); Lisa Hirmer is an artist and writer based in Guelph, Ontario. She is also a photographer producing work that emerges from and reflects her background in architecture, a discipline in which she holds two degrees from the University of Waterloo; Travis K. Bost is a designer at Höweler + Yoon Architecture and an independent urban researcher of architecture, infrastructure, ecology and capital, holding degrees from Harvard and Tulane Universities; Eric Höweler is a registered architect, architectural writer, and co-founder of Höweler + Yoon Architecture. He is an assistant professor in architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Alfredo Andia is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami and founder of the Internet Studio architectural collaborative network and the "Possible Futures" competition at the Architecture Biennale Miami + Beach; Yasmine Abbas is a French certified architect. She holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a strategic design consultant and Professeur Associé at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris; Lara Jaillon is a visiting assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong since 2011. She worked and lived in Hong Kong since 1997, and joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2000 where she obtained her PhD; Thomas Watkin is an assistant professor of urban theory and urban planning at the Tec de Monterrey (ITESM) in Guadalajara since 2006 and a PhD candidate at the School of High Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris; Onnis Luque is a photographer and architect (UNAM). He has developed architectural and urban projects for several architectural agencies in México City. His work has been exhibited, in solo and group shows in México, The Netherlands, Belgium and Spai; Matas Šiupšinskas holds a BA degree in architecture and a MA in architectural history and theory from the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Lithuania. He is the author of several articles in popular and scientific magazines; Jason Reblando is a photographer and artist based in Chicago and Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. He received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Sociology from Boston College; Ernst Gruber studied architecture in Canterbury, Weimar and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he received an M.Arch. degree in 2008. He has been a member of the Board of the 'Initiative for Community Architecture and Housing' in Vienna since 2009; Sylvain De Bleeckere teaches cultural sciences at the Faculty of Architecture and Art at Hasselt University (B). He directs the master seminar on architecture and democracy and is a staff member of the research group ArcK; Sebastiaan Gerards holds a Master's degree in Architecture and Cultural Management. He is a PhD student at Hasselt University working on a phenomenological, comparative and architectural study of the multigenerational house as a new housing concept for Flanders; Maier Yagod is an architect and artist. He holds a Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto and a Bachelors degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has worked for Zvi Hecker architect in Amsterdam, Bruce Mau in Toronto, and Sauerbruch Hutton in Berlin; Freddy Kahana is an architect and researcher. He holds an architecture diploma from the School of Architecture at the London Polytechnic. Kahana has worked as the chief architect and also as the head of research and development at the Kibbutz Planning Office; Atelier 5 is a Swiss, Bern-based architecture firm founded by the five architects Fritz Erwin, Samuel Gerber, Rolf Hesterberg, Hans Hostettler and Alfredo Pini in 1955; Heinz Müller is a Swiss architect and currently one of the senior partners in Atelier 5. After having worked for 17 years at Atelier 5, from 1968-1985, he became one of its partners in 1986; STAR strategies + architecture is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam that was founded by Beatriz Ramo in 2006. STAR is interested in all topics directly or indirectly related to architecture, and works on projects and research of any scale in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and landscape design; BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design) is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam that was founded in 2005 by Bernd Upmeyer. The office is active in many fields: as an architecture and urban design practice, as a research board and as a platform for comparative analysis on urban issues through its bi-annual journal MONU - Magazine on Urbanism; Ling Fan is an architect and spatial artist. He is an assistant professor at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Fan holds an M.Arch from the Princeton University School of Architecture. He is a doctor of design candidate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design; John Joseph Burns is currently a practising architect in Glasgow, Scotland working mainly on residential and education projects. He studied at The University of Strathclyde and the Bauhaus Univeristat-Weimar; Adam Holland is a designer from London. He studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London where he was awarded a Masters degree and BSc in Architecture. Adam works for the London based Architecture Practice, Architecture Initiative; Michaël Oliveira holds a Master from the Faculty of Architecture University of Porto, FAUP, was recently visiting Student researcher at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, CED, and is currently working at the GSAPP´s Global Studio-X Rio; Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett is probably best known for his studies of social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world; Joel Garreau is an American journalist, scholar and author of Radical Evolution, Edge City and The Nine Nations of North America. In 2010, Garreau became the Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. She is the recipient of diverse awards and mentions, ranging from multiple doctor honoris causa to named lectures and being selected as one of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2011 by Foreign Policy Magazine; Hajir Alttahir is graduate student of architecture and urbanism at the Manchester School of Architecture. She is a previous winner of the Berkeley Prize and Travel Fellow, and recently was shortlisted for Arup's Resilient Cities; Kai van Hasselt studied economics and urban planning at the University of Amsterdam. He regularly lectures for companies, groups and organizations in the Netherlands and abroad. He teaches a class on philosophy for retail designers yearly at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam; Martin Abbott is a recent Master of Architecture graduate from the University Technology Sydney and currently lives and works in Berlin. He has worked on a number of diverse projects encompassing multiple scales, type and areas of interest; Mathieu Mercuriali is a French architect and a PhD Student at EPFL, Switzerland. He is also a teaching assistant at EPFL, Switzerland and has been a design manager for Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti in Paris for seven years; Federica Vazzana graduated from the Architecture Faculty in Pescara in 2006. She collaborated with architecture offices in Rome, Florence and Rotterdam and worked as contributor for national and international magazines; Domenico Paparelli graduated in Architecture at Roma Tre University. His interest focuses on use of digital media and photography as expressive and interpretative instruments for projects; Studio Lunik is based in Rome. Its work focuses on design, research and information, in the field of architecture, urbanism and landscape design with special interest in informal uses of space, spontaneous elements and their social and urban involvement; Paola Favoino graduated in sociology from La Sapienza University in Rome. She studied photography at "Scuola Romana di Fotografia"; Manuel Alvarez Diestro is a visual artist from Spain currently living in London. For the previous two decades he lived in Algiers, Beirut, Casablanca, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Madrid and most recently in Cairo; Adam Bobbette is a landscape architect based in Hong Kong with training in philosophy and cultural studies. Prior to teaching at the University of Hong Kong, he taught the history and theory of architecture at the University of Toronto, and worked at the Canadian Centre for Architecture as a curator and researcher; Meredith Miller is an Assistant Professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the University of Michigan where she teaches design and leads the Architecture + Adaptation research initiative; Etienne Turpin is a writer, teacher, and curator who works with designers and architects to address issues of climate change and political economic inequality through design research, theoretical inquiry, and hybrid forms of tendentious practice; Ali Fard is a designer and a doctoral student at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He holds an M.Arch degree from University of Toronto, and has worked with Lateral Office and KPMB Architects in Toronto, and Saucier + Perrotte Architects in Montreal; Ghazal Jafari is a designer and researcher whose current work is concerned with the activation of landscapes of urban infrastructure as productive public spaces, design for temporality, Urbanism in volatile economic and political contexts and design for extreme geographical and climatic condition; Kathrin Golda-Pongratz is an architect, urban researcher and photographer based in Barcelona. She is professor of urbanism at Universitat Ramón Llull and lecturer in the Metropolis Masters Program in Architecture and Urban Culture in Barcelona and in the Masters Program Urban Agglomerations at University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main; Brian Lee completed an undergraduate degree in political science at Utah State University in 2008 and recently (spring 2012) completed a master's degree in architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas; Nida Rehman is a Pakistani architect, urban designer and researcher currently based in Boston. Starting in the fall of 2012, she will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Stuckeman School, Department of Architecture at Pennsylvania State University; Kathleen Cayetano holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto. She works at OMA Hong Kong and is concurrently conducting independent research on Filipino diaspora; Onur Ekmekci, born in Istanbul, is an architect and urban designer. He studied architecture at the City University of New York and worked at architectural offices in New York City; Hyeri Park, born in Seoul, studied at ETHZ (CH) for MAS in Urban Design, TU Delft (NL) where she graduated as urban planner and at Soongsil University(KR) for architecture studies. Currently she joined KCAP in Rotterdam as an urban designer since 2010; Paolo Patelli is a PhD candidate at the Department of Architecture and Planning at the Politecnico di Milano. His work has been exhibited in places such as theVenice XIII Architecture Biennale and MOMA in New York; Kunlé Adeyemi is a Nigerian-born architect, urbanist and creative researcher. He is founder and principal of NLÉ, an architecture, design and urbanism practice, based in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Before starting his own office in the Netherlands and now Nigeria, he worked nearly a decade at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA); Aram Tanis was born in Seoul, South-Korea, but lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and finished his two years at De Ateliers in 2006. Among others he has had exhibitions at Kunstverein Dusseldorf, FOAM Amsterdam, and Gallery Korea New York; Kees Christiaanse is founding partner of KCAP Architects & Planners, in Rotterdam; chair of architecture and urbanism in the Institute for Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich; and a visiting professor at the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics; Beatriz Ramo founded STAR strategies + architecture in 2006 in Rotterdam. STAR is a practice dealing with architecture in all its forms. The projects and essays of STAR have been published worldwide. The office has won several prizes in architecture and urban development competitions in China, Lebanon, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Spain; Bernd Upmeyer is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). From 2004 until 2008 he taught and did research as Assistant Professor at the department for Urban and Architectural Studies at the University of Kassel; Hester van Gent is an urban planner and independent writer. She studied Urbanism at the Delft Technical University and did a post-academic course in Scientific Journalism at the Hogeschool Utrecht. Currently, she works as an urban development advisor in the city of Utrecht; Edward William Soja is a political geographer and urban planner at the UCLA, where he is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and the London School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University; Jessica Bridger is a designer, writer and editor based in Germany and the United States. Her work is centered on the relationship of culture and economics to the built environment and landscape. She is the 2011/2012 Bakema Fellow through the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI); Brian Gaberman is an international photographer based in Northern California. Brian has spent the last 14 years traveling the world with camera, producing countless editorial pieces and ad campaigns. The youngest photographer to ever be featured in B&W Magazine, Brian took a detour from his art and dove head first into skateboard photography; Oswald Devisch is a civil-engineer architect and urban designer. He studied at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, U.K. He obtained a doctoral degree at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on spatial simulation models; After earning architecture degrees from UC Berkeley and Yale, Tom Marble worked for firms as diverse as SOM and Morphosis, Chermayeff & Geismar and The Irvine Company. Since 2001 his practice, Marbletecture, has divided its time between designing buildings, writing stories, and teaching, which he has done at USC, Cal Poly Pomona, and SCI-Arc; Mike Crang is a reader in cultural geography at Durham University in the UK. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in geography and gained a PhD from the University of Bristol. Crang's main research areas within human geography involve those relating to social identity, theories on space and human perception of space as well as critical theories; Stephen Graham is an academic and author who researches cities and urban life. He is Professor of Cities and Society at the Global Urban Research Unit and is based in Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Graham has a background in Geography, Planning and the Sociology of Technology; Domenico Di Siena is an architect, consultant and investigator focused on Network Thinking. Currently he is an Associate professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Zaragoza and the Universidad San Jorge; Manon Bublot is an architect of the absurd and investigator in the framework of public space and commons. Rather than considering architecture as a spatial challenge, time is the key word of her reflection in designing processes of sustainable value and unpredictable evolution; Clark Thenhaus is founder and principal of Endemic, and is currently an Associate Professor at RMIT Landscape Department. Since founding Endemic, Clark has lectured in the U.S. and abroad and his work has been exhibited widely. He has previously taught at the University of Colorado-Denver and the Otis College of Art and Design; Eduard Sancho Pou is an architect and researcher of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia (Barcelona Tech). Recently he has earned a Graham Grant 2011 and a Mention in the 2011 FAD Architecture Awards of Theory and Criticism; Sabine Höpfner was trained as a photographer and studied Fine Arts, Film, and German Philology at University of Siegen, University of Hamburg, and University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. She works freelance as a motion graphics designer and produces and exhibits her own projects; Stefan Canham studied Film at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, and has been working freelance on documentary photo and television projects since 1995. He has collaborated with Rufina Wu on "Portraits from Above - Hong Kong's Informal Rooftop Communities", winning the 5th International Bauhaus Award 2008; Scott Herring is an Associate Professor at the Department of English at Indiana University. He specializes in modern American literature and gender and sexuality studies. While he spends the majority of his time on sexual and social modernity, much of his current efforts also hover around urbanism, non-urbanism, and concepts of social and material disorder; Benjamin Beller started his architectural education in Strasbourg EAS before moving to London in 2004 and obtaining RIBA part1 degree in Architectural Association School. He then attended Paris La Villette School of Architecture, from which he graduated with the highest honors in 2007; Ilya F. Maharika is a senior lecturer at the Department of Architecture Universitas Islam Indonesia, founder of the Center for Socius Design (www.csd.uii.ac.id) and currently researching variety of scapes of kampung and desakota as the site for architectural interventions; Gayuh Winisudaningtyas is a student at the Department of Architecture Universitas Islam Indonesia working in desakota for her scientific paper; Agatino Rizzo is assistant professor of urban planning and design in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the College of Engineering at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. Prior to his appointment in Qatar, Agatino Rizzo has worked as an academic and professional urban planner in Malaysia (University Technology Malaysia), Germany (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation), and Finland (Alvar Aalto University); David Karle is an assistant professor of Architecture at the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where he teaches courses in urbanism and design studies. Prior to joining the faculty at Nebraska, David taught undergraduate and graduate level courses at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan; Wouter Vanstiphout is part of Crimson Architectural Historians. He is professor of Design and Politics at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft Technical University. From 2000 to 2007 he and Crimson directed the urban transformation project of the Dutch New Town of Hoogvliet. Beatriz Ramo is an architect and urban planner from Spain. She lives in Rotterdam where she founded STAR strategies + architecture in 2006. She holds teaching positions with several institutions in the Netherlands and has lectured internationally about architecture in general and the work of STAR in particular. Bernd Upmeyer is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). Patty Heyda is Assistant Professor of urban design and architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Portions of her project "Roman Operating System_2000,"conducted with Rem Koolhaas were published in Mutations (Actar, 2001). Thomas Ruff is an internationally renowned German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf. Ruff has exhibited widely since his first gallery show at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, in 1981. His work has appeared in Documenta 9 (1992), the Venice Biennale (1995 and 2005), the Biennale of Sydney (1996), and the Bienal de São Paulo (2002). Samir El Kordy is a Cairo-based architect. He graduated from the Architectural Department in Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, 1997. He has worked for OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, and Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. Ying Zhou is an architect and urbanist with the Future Cities Laboratory of the ETH Center in Singapore. She was a researcher and lecturer ETH Studio Basel 2007-2011 with Professors Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Brendan M. Lee is an architectural designer and principal of ProjectBureaux, a creative agency for design, research and product development. He lives in New York City and is an adjunct faculty member at Parsons, The New School for Design. Adrià Carbonell is an architect currently working and living in Doha, Qatar. In 2009 he established COLLECTIVAA, a studio that works collaboratively in Architecture and Urban Design fields, as well as academia and research projects. Fredrik Torisson is an architect, who has been practising architecture in Sweden, the UK and Germany since 2006.He graduated from Lunds Tekniska Högskola (LTH) and is a member of the Swedish Association of Architects. His published works include the books Embryos and Berlin- Matter of Memory. He is currently living in Berlin. DoUC (Department of Unusual Certainties) is a Toronto-based research and design collective working at the interstices of urban design, planning, public art, spatial research and mapping. Brendan Cormier is an urban designer with an M.Sc from the Bauhaus Universität-Weimar. In the last few years he has spent time living in Germany, Holland, Jamaica, and Canada, working on various urban design and research projects. Christopher Pandolfi is an urban designer with an MA from Domus Academy (Milano, Italy) and has worked on a wide variety of projects in North America, Europe and Asia. Simon Rabyniuk is a Toronto-based visual artist working in sculpture, video, and performance. He has presented work across Canada including. Nathalie Frankowski is a French Architect who graduated in 2008 in the department of Architecture, Art and Philosophy at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette. In 2008 she co-founded WAI Architecture Think Tank. Cruz García is a Puerto Rican Architect who graduated in 2008 from the Universidad de Puerto Rico. In 2008 he co-founded WAI Architecture Think Tank. WAI (What About It?) Think Tank is a workshop for architecture intelligentsia. Currently based in Beijing, WAI oscillates between Asia, Europe and America. Michael Hirschbichler, born in Graz, Austria was educated in architecture and philosophy. He received a Master's Degree in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich). He is currently heading the Bachelor-/Master-studio in architecture and urban design at the chair of Prof. Dr. Marc M. Angélil at ETH Zürich. Robin van den Akker is a cultural philosopher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and a researcher at TNO Information and Communication Technology. He has written and spoken extensively on everyday life and digital culture, social space and social time, contemporary art and architecture, and the work of Henri Lefebvre. Timotheus Vermeulen is lecturer in Cultural Studies and Theory at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His research interests include contemporary aesthetics, inter- and transmediality, art, cinema, television, the aesthetics and poetics of space, and the work of Jacques Rancière. Gale Fulton is assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught landscape architecture and urbanism at Adelaide University in Adelaide, South Australia and Penn State University. His current research focuses on the demise of the North American small park and the social potentials of monstrous landscapes. Stewart Hicks is currently living and working in Champaign, IL. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois and co-founder of Design With Company. He has a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and was a principal and co-founder of Mitnick Roddier Hicks in Ann Arbor. Mika Savela is an architect and designer, living and working in Helsinki. His special interests lie in contemporary urbanism and the history of modernity. He holds a Master's degree in Architecture from Aalto University in Finland and has written for several independent publications. Wes Wilson received both an Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies and a Masters of Architecture from of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Ontario, Canada, and was recently invited as a sessional lecturer to the University of Waterloo's Architecture Rome Programme in Trastevere, Rome, Italy. Geoffrey Thün is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan and a partner in the research-based practice rvtr. Kathy Velikov is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, a licensed architect in Ontario, Canada, and a partner in the research-based practice rvtr. Colin Ripley is Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Architecture Program at Ryerson University in Toronto and a partner in the research- based practice rvtr. RVTR is an award-winning design research practice based whose work ranges across scales, from product and building design to the visualization and planning of evolving ecosystems and economies. In 2009, RVTR was the recipient of the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts. Melissa Dittmer is a design architect and associate at Hamilton Anderson Associates (HAA) a multidisciplinary design firm based in Detroit. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology and her Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University. James Witherspoon is a designer at Hamilton Anderson Associates in downtown Detroit. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan and his bachelor degree in Architectural History and Philosophy from Connecticut College. Noah Resnick currently teaches and practices architecture and urbanism in the city of Detroit, Michigan. He is the director of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Detroit Mercy, and is a founding principal of uRbanDetail, an architecture and urban design studio. UNION3 is a collective of the three Rotterdam based architecture offices SVESMI, MAKS, and IND that focuses on the problems of renewal projects in European cities. Felix Madrazo is co-founder of Supersudaca and IND [Inter National Design]. He worked from 2004-2006 as an architect, editor and researcher at OMA. He is currently a lecturer and researcher at TU Delft / The Why Factory. Alexander Sverdlov founder of the design practice SVESMI. From 2002 to 2007 he worked as an architect and project architect of large-scale projects at Neutelings Riedijk, West 8, Architecten Cie, and OMA/ AMO. Marieke Kums is an architect and founder of MAKS. From 2003 to 2005 she collaborated with OMA/ Rem Koolhaas and since 2006 she worked with SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa in Tokyo. Arman Akdogan studied architecture at University of Mimar Sinan (Istanbul) and at the Berlage Institute (Rotterdam). After Berlage Institute he worked three years at West 8 and OMA. Rotterdam 2005. He started his own practice IND [Inter National Design] in 2007. Anastassia Smirnova is a Rotterdam based author and researcher. She is also co-teaching with Rem Koolhaas (topic of "Preservation") at STRELKA, school for architecture, design and media in Moscow. In 2007 she established her own design practice SVESMI in Rotterdam. Henk Ovink is the Director of National Spatial Planning for the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. He is also the co-curator for the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2012 "Making City". Simone Pizzagalli is an architect living in Rotterdam. He studied at Politecnico of Milan and the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft. Currently he is working at Menabó Architecture. OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA sustains an international practice with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, and Hong Kong. Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. He heads the work of both OMA and AMO, the research branch of OMA, operating in areas beyond the realm of architecture such as media, politics, renewable energy and fashion. Ippolito Pestellini is an Italian architect. Since 2007 he works as an architect and project leader at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Recently he has been in charge for OMA's exhibition entitled Cronocaos at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010. Beatriz Ramo directs STAR strategies + architecture in Rotterdam. STAR is interested in all relevant fields related to architecture. Before founding STAR, Beatriz worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam. Lucas Dean graduated Landscape Architecture from RMIT University Australia in 2010. He received the award for best project voted by the student body 2010 for the project Apoptotic Woomera 2035. Jarrik Ouburg runs the architectural practice Office Jarrik Ouburg in Amsterdam and is partner of CoOB Architects. Sara Hendren is an artist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her projects engage cultural ideas about disability and normativity, the medical humanities, and art-science innovation. Sean Burkholder is an Urban Landscape Designer and Assistant Professor of Landscape architecture at the Pennsylvania State University. Adolfo Natalini was one of the founders of the legendary 60ies architecture firm Superstudio. In 1991 Natalini founded the Florence based office Natalini Architetti. Bernd Upmeyer is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). STAR strategies + architecture is a practice of architecture and urban design based in Rotterdam since 2006. STAR analyzes the relations of architecture and urbanism with their social, political, and cultural contexts. Marinke Steenhuis is chairman of the committee for architecture and building environment for the city of Rotterdam and Quality team Beemster, member of the national H-team [National counsel for conversion issues]. Paul Meurs holds the Restoration and transformation chair at TU Delft. Jan Bovelet studied architecture and Philosophy at Kassel, Cologne, and at the Technical University, Berlin. He worked as scientific contributor for the ShrinkingCities project and at the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. Miodrag Kuc is an interdisciplinary artist and urban theorist trained as architect/urban planner in various cultural settings. Currently he is doing his PhD at Bauhaus University Weimar. Ephraim Joris is partner of the office Architecture Project. Much of his work currently forms part of a PhD research within the invitational program at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. Michiel van Iersel is an urbanist, curator and co-founder of Non-fiction, an office for cultural, urban and technological innovation, developing cutting-edge ideas and activities. Juha van 't Zelfde is co-founder of Non-fiction, Office for Cultural Innovation, a vehicle for experiments in art, technology and urban culture. Ben Cerveny oversees research projects at the intersection of game design, urban planning, and participatory culture. Gijs Hoofs is an independent thinker. He also worked for the Delft University of Technology as an assistant-professor. Michiel Daalmans is a consultant at De Wijde Blik, a communications consultancy specialized in Urban Development. Brian Davis is a graduate student at the University of Virginia. He writes the landscape blog faslanyc. Rob Holmes lives and practices as a landscape architect in Virginia. He is co-founder of mammoth, an architectural research and design collaborative. Brett Milligan is the founder of Free Association Design (F.A.D.), which investigates space, place and systems through a range of writings, experiences and design research methods. He is a landscape architect based in Portland, Oregon. Patrizia Di Monte is an architect. She studied architecture at the IUAV in Venice and holds a master and PhD in large scale architecture. In 1998 she founded the Zaragoza based office Grávalos-Di Monte Architects. Floris Alkemade is a Dutch architect, urban designer, and was one of the directors/partners of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Rotterdam. In 2008 he founded his own office Floris Alkemade Architect (FAA). Adriaan Geuze was one of the founders of West 8 urban design & landscape architecture b.v., a leading urban design practice in Europe. Jaap van den Bout set up "Palmboom & van den Bout, urban designers" together with Frits Palmboom in 1994. He teaches at various universities and academies. Since 2000 he has been a visiting professor at the Delft Technical University. Piet Vollaard is an architect and architectural author/critic. He is the director and initiator of ArchiNed, the architecture site of the Netherlands and teaches at several architecture schools in the Netherlands. Mika Savela is an architect and designer, currently living and working in Helsinki. He is a graduate of the Aalto University in Finland. Melissa Dittmer is a registered architect at the Detroit based design firm, Hamilton Anderson Associates. Amy Bos is a licensed Interior Designer and Graphic Designer based out of Detroit, Michigan. Bobby Shen is currently studying architecture at the University of Auckland. He delves into art, social media, psychology, fashion and writing. Luciano G. Alfaya is a PhD Candidate at the ETSA in Madrid. He completed his training as an architect at the University of Edinburgh and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. In 2004 he founded together with Patricia Muñiz his own studio called MMASA. Patricia Muñiz holds an MArch in Urban Culture from the UPC in Barcelona. Together with Luciano G. Alfaya she is currently teaching at the University of Coruña. Karin Aue is the Creative Director of arthesia, an applied creative think tank that is based in Zürich, where she is working at the cross-line between scenario thinking, urban development and creative strategies for both public and corporate clients. Jef Koh is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Mixed Reality Lab / Keio-NUS Cute Center at the National University of Singapore and is a multi-talented, trans-disciplinary new media installation artist and designer. Human Wu is a Chinese architect currently working in New York. He was educated as an architect and urban designer at South China University of Technology and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Bas van der Horst, Hans Larsson and Michiel van Loon are currently completing their studies in Architecture at the TU Delft. Ruraigh Purcell is a Business Development Coordinator at ECA International and currently based in San Francisco. Ruraigh spent three years running an analytical team producing city ranking lists concerned with the issue of 'quality of life'. Bernd Upmeyer is the editor-in-chief and founder of MONU magazine. He is also the founder of the Rotterdam based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD). Currently he is teaching as Adjunct Professor at the department of Urban Design at the HafenCity University Hamburg and is working on his PhD on Transnational Urbanism. Klaas Kresse is an Architect based in the Netherlands. He is one of the founders of the Rotterdam based architecture and research office 'sprikk'. He worked with Bothe, Richter, Teherani in Hamburg and Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture' in Rotterdam. Matthew Johnson is an assistant professor at the Gerald Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston. He has worked for Steven Holl and Allied Works Architecture. He graduated from Stanford University with Honors, and from the Yale University School of Architecture. Hans Frei is an architect based in Zürich. His activities are focused on theoretical issues. From 1997 till 2003 he was a professor for Architectural Theory and Design at the University of Kassel. His doctoral thesis was about Max Bill as an architect. John Southern is the director of Urban Operations, a research and design studio based in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake. He teaches architectural theory as well as design studio at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, California. Jürgen Krusche has studied music, philosophy and design and art theory in Augsburg, Munich and Zurich. Since 2007 he has headed the research project 'Taking to the Streets', which was initiated by the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich. Lukas Pauer is studying architecture and urbanism at ETH Zürich and is scholarship recipient of the Erich-Degen and the IKEA foundation. He has participated in research projects at ETH Zürich and Columbia University. Jennifer W. Leung is an architect, critic, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to joining the faculty at the Yale School of Architecture, she previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and the GSAPP at Columbia University. Karl Beelen is an urban designer. His interests range from mapping and cartography to South Asian urbanism. Roos Gerritsen is an anthropologist from Leiden University working on visual culture and street culture in Chennai. A. Srivathsan is a journalist and adjunct University Faculty member in Chennai. DoUC (Department of Unusual Certainties) is a Toronto-based research and design collective working at the interstices of urban design, planning, public art, spatial research and mapping. Brendan Cormier is an urban designer with an M.Sc from the Bauhaus Universität-Weimar. In the last few years he has spent time living in Germany, Holland, Jamaica, and Canada, working on various urban design and research projects. Christopher Pandolfi is an urban designer with an MA from Domus Academy (Milano, Italy) and has worked on a wide variety of projects in North America, Europe and Asia. Stefan Gruber is principal of STUDIOGRUBER, a Vienna-based design practice for architecture, urban strategies and research. He is a professor of Architecture and Urbanism and the Deputy Head of the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Jason Lee is an architect and urbanist of Canadian extraction who has been practicing in Holland and China for the last 5 years. Doreen Jakob studied Politics and Sociology at the city University of New York Graduate center; Geography, Sociology, and Economics at Humboldt University Berlin. Currently she is Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina. Mammoth is Stephen Becker and Rob Holmes. They write mammoth, a blog on landscape, architecture, and urbanism. Stephen Becker designs the performance and financing of energy efficient building projects throughout the Northeast. Rob Holmes lives and works as a landscape architect in Washington. Karl Johann Hakken lectures in Sociology and Architecture at Harrington College of Design. Maximilian Mendel is an urban planner, currently living in Warsaw, Poland, where he works as a real estate consultant, chiefly advising residential developers, investors, banks and local government authorities. Dongwoo Yim received his Master of Architecture in Urban Design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and currently practicing as a designer in Machado & Silvetti Associates in Boston. Rustam Mehta and Thomas Moran are graduates of the Yale School of Architecture, practicing in New Haven and Ann Arbor. Carol Moukheiber is Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. McLain Clutter is an architect, writer and an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Randall Teal is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Idaho. Margriet Smit is a real estate developer in Rotterdam. Joyce Hwang is an architect and Assistant Professor of Architecture at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect. He heads the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group which he founded in 2006. Beatriz Ramo graduated in the ETSA of Valencia, Spain. In 2006, she founded STAR strategies + architecture in Rotterdam. Since 2007 Beatriz runs a research studio on the theme "Architecture and Market" at the AAS in Tilburg. Simone De Iacobis was born in Rome and studied there until his architecture diploma. Simone achieved prizes both in architectural and photographic competitions. Arjan Harbers is an urban planner and researcher. In addition to Topotronic, he works for The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). Topotronic is a Rotterdam based office for urban planning, urban design und urban research. Daan Roggeveen is a freelance architect who previously worked for MADA spam, NL Architects and IPMMC Concepts. Michiel Hulshof is China correspondent for Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland, press agency ANP and Dutch talk-television. Bas Princen lives and works in Rotterdam as an independent photographer focussing on the transformations of the urban landscape. Marta Relats holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She studied Architecture at the UPC Barcelona and is currently finishing her Masters at the TU Delft under The Why Factory program. ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] is a Rotterdam based office operating in the urban field producing research, unsolicited architecture, manifests, exhibitions and books. Andre Kempe is an architect, who studied architecture and urban design in Dresden, Paris and Tokyo. He is one of the principals of the Rotterdam based Atelier Kempe Thill. MVRDV was set up in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV produces designs and studies in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape design. Samo Pedersen is an architect, currently living and working in Berlin. He has a MSc in urban design from Bauhaus University, Weimar, and Tongji University, Shanghai. Matteo Muggianu graduated in Architectural Enginering from the Facoltà di Ingegneria di Cagliari, Italy. After that he followed a master degree in Urban Management and Architectural Design at Domus Academy in Milan, where he lives and works at the moment. Nikonus Pappas is graduated from the Architecture University of Adelaide, South Australia 2008. He has also studied at La Sapienza University, Rome. Jacob Boswell holds masters degrees in both City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio as well as an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology. Gerd Hauser is the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics in Germany that deals with research, development, testing, demonstration and consulting in the fields of building physics and holder of the Chair of Building Physics at the Technical University of Munich. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerd Hauser is one of the leading researchers for the implementation of the EU Directive on “Energy Performance of Buildings”. Nathalie Frankowski is a French architect graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette (ENSAPLV) and Co-Founder of WAI (What About It?) A Contemporary Think Tank for Architecture and the City Cruz García is a Puerto Rican architect graduated from the Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Puerto Rico and Co-Founder of WAI. WAI (What About It?) is a Contemporary Think Tank for Architecture and the City based in Amsterdam. John Southern is the director of Urban Operations, a research and design studio based in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake. He teaches architectural theory as well as design studio at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, California. Tomorrow’sThoughtsToday is a London-based think tank exploring the consequences of fantastic, perverse and underrated urbanisms. Darryl Chen is an architect, critic and practitioner on urbanism for a range of publications, schools and private practices. Liam Young currently lives and works in London. After working for Zaha Hadid Architects and LAB Architecture Studio he is now an independent designer and critic. Lee Altman is an architect and urban designer based in NYC. She attended the Israel Institute of Technology, the Politecnico di Milano and Columbia University GSAPP where she received her Masters of Science in Architecture and Urban Design. Greg Keeffe is Downing Professor of Sustainable Architecture, Leeds School of Architecture, Leeds. He is originally trained as an engineer and has 25 years experience in sustainability, energy use and its impact on the design of built form and urban space. develops a model of a new city, as an econose, of mutually compatible functional elements. Simon Swietochowski is a Research Student at Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester UK. OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) is a Rotterdam based leading international partnership practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. Felipe Correa is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is an architect and founder of Somatic Collaborative, a research based design practice, which focuses on a speculative approach to architecture and urbanism, and engages a wide host of material geographies and design procedures. Claudio Astudillo Barra is a Chilean architect who studied at the Santa María University’s School of Architecture in the city of Valparaiso, Chile. He is editor of Criptonita team and member of Bangs! Aleksander Tokarz graduated with a Bachelors of Architecture from California College of the Arts. Currently he is working as a project manager at an architectural firm in Stuttgart, Germany. Amanda Webb is an environmental designer in the San Francisco office of Atelier Ten, an environmental design, mechanical engineering and lighting design firm. She received her degree in architecture and philosophy from Yale University. Rogier van den Berg is founding partner of Zandbelt&vandenBerg, office for architecture and urban design in Rotterdam and head of the Department of Urbanism at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Bryan Norwood is a recent graduate of Mississippi State University and currently a graduate student in the philosophy Ph.D. program at Boston University. His current research at the Jackson Community Design Center is on the intersection of poststructuralism and urbanism, and in particular its connection to mid-size metropolitan areas. The Jackson Community Design Center is an urban think tank based out of the Mississippi State University College of Architecture, Art, and Design. Daniel Hadley graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 2008 with a Masters in Theological Studies, and is currently working on a Masters in Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Brian A Shabaglian is an artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Colin Davies is a writer and the founder and co-editor of the website Limited Language that uses the web as a platform for generating writing about visual communication. NL Architects is an Amsterdam based office. The principals, Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk and Kamiel Klaasse, officially opened practice in January 1997, but had shared workspace already since the early nineties. Peter Dorsey practices and teaches architecture in New York and Bahrain. Ray Lucas has a PhD in Social Anthropology and has conducted research in the fields of architecture, representation, sensory perception, sound design, cinema, and is currently working at the Departments of Architecture and Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Speedism is the duo Julian Friedauer, Germany, and Pieterjan Ginckels, Belgium. They work in the fields of architecture, architectural theory, visual arts, visual theory, urban tactics, imagineering, visual arts and scriptwriting. Emeka Udemba is an artist from Nigeria. He is also involved in curatorial practices. He lives and works presently in Germany. Kees Christiaanse is an architect and urban planner. In 1989 he founded KCAP Architects&Planners, which holds offices in Rotterdam and Zurich. From 1996 to 2003 he was a professor of architecture and urban planning at the Technical University of Berlin, and since 2003 he is the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at the ETH in Zürich. Elliott Malkin is an artist, filmmaker, and information architect in New York City. He is the inventor of the laser eruv. Jesse LeCavalier holds degrees from Brown University and from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich where he is also involved in teaching and research activities. Maurizio Scarciglia is an architect and the founder of NAUTA, a Rotterdam based office that focuses on architecture and urban planning. Before opening his own office, he worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Since 2006 he is teaching and researching at Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft. Edward Richardson is a native of New Orleans and has practiced architecture in Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico and Texas. He studied architecture at both Yale University, and has taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas and University of New Mexico. Carolyn Sponza is an architect practicing in New York City. Abha Mahajan is a practicing architect based in India, with varied interests including painting and writing. She has been involved in research projects and is an urban Designer from S. P.A., New Delhi. Karen Crequer lives and works in Paris. She examines themes surrounding psychoanalysis and architecture. She has worked on a diversity of projects in some leading international firms such as the Serpentine Pavillon of Rem Koolhaas. Matilde Cassani lives and works between Milano and Barcelona. She has a degree in architecture at Politecinco di Milano and a post graduation degree at UPC in Barcelona. She currently works as an architect and researcher in Milano with Boeri studio