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burst into the literary limelight in 2003 when she won the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her writing, both fiction and nonfiction, captivates readers with its representation of African life in resonant and complex ways. She harnesses the lyrical power of storytelling through a poetic language that doesn’t just reflect reality but also sees into the deep dark undercurrents of violence in history and collective life. Whether in a novel like Dust (2014), set against the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya or in a short story like “Weight of Whispers,” which explores the Rwandan genocide, Owuor invites readers to participate in a shared experience of trauma as a private experience and a collective reckoning. Her most recent work of fiction, The Dragonfly Sea (2019), is a coming-of-age story that explores aspects of an East African sea imagination in a time of China’s return to its milieu. Yvonne is also active in the environmental and conservation sector. She was a 2020 CAD+SR Faculty Fellow and is currently an advisor. [bio edited 2023]

is a Palestinian architect living in New York. She is an assistant professor of architecture at The Cooper Union. She focuses on architecture’s entanglements in processes of erasure and exclusion in settler colonialism. She teaches a series of interdisciplinary courses on borders and on archives, in collaboration with researchers, artists, and human rights advocates. Prior to joining The Cooper Union, Nora taught at Columbia GSAPP where she was the director of Studio-X Amman. She is co-founder of the interdisciplinary research and design studio Interim Projects. [bio edited 2021]

who has a master’s degree from Sámi allaskuvla, works in Kautokeino today. In her duodji work, she uses materials like textiles and hides. [bio edited 2023]

is a curator and educator interested in discursive practices, the social framework, and how we shape and form our experiences in understanding the world. She is inspired by working with artists who disrupt or provoke the social sphere through action, design, dance, and architecture. She is the initiator of Under the Mango Tree: Sites of Learning in cooperation with ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Stuttgart. Through notions of unlearning and indigenous knowledge, artist-led project spaces, libraries, and schools interested in unfolding discourses, artists, education practitioners and programmers gather to discuss and build radical education practices that destabilize the European canon. Previously, Sepake Angiama was Head of Education for Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017; Director of Education for Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, 2014; and Curator of Public Programmes at Turner Contemporary, Margate. Sepake Angiama has created education programs for several institutions, including Tate Modern, London, and Hayward Gallery, London. Sepake Angiama lives and works in transition. Sepake Angiama is a Co-Curator of the upcoming Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2019. [bio edited 2019]

is an architect and researcher. Her research focuses on the intersection of geopolitics and space, including questions related to diasporas, migration and border regimes. She is interested in modes of spatial representation, particularly in relation to the digital and the limits of witnessing as a form of ethical engagement with distant places. Currently, she leads the ERC funded project Topological Atlas which aims to produce visual counter-geographies of the fragile movements of migrants as they encounter the security apparatus of the border. She is Senior Research Fellow at the Borders & Territories group at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. In 2015 she was an Independent Social Research Foundation early career fellow working on the project, Edges of Europe, exploring European belonging through migrant experience. Her book, Diasporic Agencies (Routledge, 2016) addressed the subject of how architecture and urbanism can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. She has also addressed alternative modes of architectural production in the co-authored book Spatial Agency (Routledge, 2011) and the co-edited book Trans-Local-Act (aaa-peprav, 2011). [bio edited 2021]

is a member of raumlaborberlin, that was founded in 1999 as a commons of spatial practice. Including also Andrea Hofmann, Jan Liesegang, Christof Mayer and Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Matthias Rick († 2012), Francesco Apuzzo, Axel Timm, Frauke Gerstenberg, Florian Stirnemann, it has currently 9 members. Through its practice, raumlabor has developed and explored an extended concept of architecture and space beyond the built object. raumlaborberlin was honoured with the Berlin Award 2015 – Heimat in der Fremde, the Core77 Design Awards 2017 – Built Environment, the Curry Stone Design Prize 2017 – Social Design Circle and the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2018 – Architecture as an agent of civic empowerment. Markus Bader studied Architecture in Berlin and London. He graduated in 1996 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. Markus Bader’s academic activities include Guest professorships in Düsseldorf, Kassel and Prague, complemented by many workshops and lectures held internationally. Since 2016 he is professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of the Arts, Berlin. [bio edited 2018]

are artists and researchers living between Helsinki and Boston. Since 2017, they are co-founders of the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, a poly-centric laboratory for research and practice focused on emancipatory and decolonial pedagogies. With partners in Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, and the UK; and a group of Senior Researchers and Research Fellows, they have co-organized research convenings, exhibitions, workshops, and publications. Benfield works on decolonial aesthetics and has an MFA in moving image practices from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies with Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, University of California-Berkeley. Bratton is an artist, filmmaker, and education activist. [bio edited 2023]

is a Brazilian, independent researcher and practitioner, mediator and writer, currently Project Manager at IASPIS. Her language combines the triad architecture, visual arts and crafts, with a poetic, literary, philosophical, autoethnographic and decolonial grounds, acknowledging object, word, subject and surroundings as expanded bodies that interact. Since 2015, Roberta´s practice is embedded in the historic colonial Sobrado house, southern Brazil, developing the re-assimilation of its heritage onto contemporaneity. Her research-practice engages heritage via notions of atmosphere, ownership, private and public, vernacular and contemporary, emancipation and meaningfulness, where a theory and practice of uses is central. She is concurrently active in the fields of visual arts, architecture and crafts through different positions, constellations and learning environments which include: Research tutor, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; Project manager, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international programme for Visual and Applied Artists; ACHS Futures 2020 5^th Biennial, University College London; Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience, Newcastle University; Lecturer, ResearchLab Konstfack, Stockholm; Mediator, Galleri Platina, Stockholm. Since 2021 Roberta is a Urgent Pedagogies team member. [bio edited 2021]

is a professor of Pedagogy and Social Work at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin. She holds a double degree in Psychology and Pedagogy and a Ph.D. in Political Science. Her research interests besides Postcolonial Theory lies in Queer Studies, Critical Migration Studies, Critical (Adult-)Education, Conspiracy theories, and Trauma Studies. In 2014 she was a visiting fellow of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities in Melbourne, Australia, in 2015/16 a senior fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna and will be the Ustinov-Guest-Professor at the University of Vienna in winter 2021/22. María do Mar Castro Varela is the chair of the Berlin Institute for Contrapunctual Social Analysis (BIKA) and the founder of the bildungsLab* in Berlin. [bio edited 2021]

is a Taiwanese-American multidisciplinary designer and artist based in Stockholm. Moving between visual communication, writing, and artistic inquiry, his practice is concerned with circumstances of distance and diaspora, politics of voice and listening, and processes of sense-making. Through visual culture, publication making, language, and collaborative methods of reading, he investigates ways of listening and voicing toward cultivating resilient capacities for sensing, feeling, and being in the present. MFA in Visual Communication from Konstfack 2019, BFA in Graphic Design from Art Center College of Design 2010. Johnny is the designer of the Urgent Pedagogies online platform. [bio edited 2021]

is a curator, educator and researcher who co-founded the free, independent art school and community space Open School East in London, then Margate, where she was a director until 2021. Colin works as a lecturer at the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is completing her Phd on the notion of the alternative in multi-public educational and cultural organizations from the late 19th century to the present, in the UK and further afield, at the University of Nottingham. Alongside her curatorial practice, which straddles the social and the ecological, Anna is currently training in horticulture and garden design. [bio edited 2022]

is concluding her masters studies in Urban Planning for Transition at IUAV. She received the title of Architect and Urbanist from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil (2021), where she engaged in various social projects with marginalized communities. Through NGOs like Engineers without Borders, EMAU Perspectiva and ATHIS/REURB, she led participatory urban interventions. She gained experience in sustainable urban planning through research at GEOTPU.LAB in Portugal (2019) and deepened her theoretical foundations at UNICAMP, UFSC, and USP (2022). Professionally, she has acted mainly in neighbourhood impact studies at Braido Arquitetura (2019-2022). She is currently an intern at the non-profit agency UNLESS addressing climate change from Antarctica’s perspective.

Ph.D., is a visual artist, independent researcher and educator and a member of the Uncertain Archives research collective (University of Copenhagen). Her work explores “reparative critical practices” as collaborative, audio-visual practices that explore the debris of broken histories. Current artistic work and research traverse the entangled colonial archives between the United States Virgin Islands, Ghana, Greenland, India, and Denmark, often presented in video installations, performative presentations, and publications. She was the head of the Institute for Art, Writing and Research at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where she was also a postdoctoral researcher. She is the co-founder of Sorte Firkant bar & cultural venue in Copenhagen and the newly founded artists’ network Reparative Encounters. [bio edited 2023]

is a Product Design Prototyper at Meta developing strategy and exploring interfaces and applications for Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Realtiy (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) headsets. Before that she worked as a Senior Design Researcher in the Office of the CTO at Microsoft helping drive company alignment and evaluating product market fit for VR and AR. She has previously worked as an artist, researcher and professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and the MIT Media Lab and has held residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research and at the Gushul Studio at the University of Lethbridge. [bio edited 2023]

is Head of IASPIS Applied Arts Programme, responsible for the design, crafts and architecture related activities. He has a background as curator, project coordinator and educator working across design, architecture, urbanism and art. Between 2014 and 2018 he developed and managed two experimental postgraduate courses on socially engaged critical practice; Sites and Situations and Organising Discourse, at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. Between 2009 and 2014 Magnus Ericson was a Senior Advisor/Coordinator and Curator for the design related programme at Arkdes, Sweden´s National Center for Architecture and Design, in Stockholm. Between 2007 and 2009 he was assigned as a Project Manager at IASPIS to pursue and develop the activities within the fields of design, crafts and architecture. Together with Ramia Maze he was the author and co-editor of DESIGN ACT Socially and politically engaged design today – critical roles and emerging tactics (Berlin, Sternberg Press 2011). Together with Pelin Tan he is the curator of Urgent Pedagogies. [bio edited 2022]

was an independent writer and grassroots activist. He has been a central figure in a wide range of Mexican, Latin American, and international nongovernmental organizations and solidarity networks, including Universidad de la Tierra en Oaxaca. In 1996, he was an advisor to the Zapatistas in their negotiations with the Mexican government. A prolific writer, he is the author of more than 40 books, published in seven languages. He has also written hundreds of essays.  He is a columnist in Mexico’s leading daily, La Jornada, and writes occasionally for The Guardian. Among his academic honors: an Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa), the National Award for Political Economy, and the National Award for Journalism. has served as president of the Mexican Society of Planning and the 5th World Congress on Rural Sociology and Chairman of the Board for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Gustavo Esteva passed away in March 2022. [bio edited 2022]

is a learning theorists and practitioner based in al-Fuheis, Jordan. He has a long-lasting pedagogical experience on the concept of learning as integral to education, both formal and informal. He studied and taught mathematics for many years; got his doctorate from Harvard in education and worked in Birzeit University. During the first Palestinian intifada in late 1980s, he left academia and established Tamer Institute for Community Education, which revolved around protecting and providing “learning environments”, building on what is beautiful, inspiring, healthy, and abundant in people, communities, and cultures, and making sense of one’s experience. In 1997, he established the Arab Education Forum within Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is the founder of Mujaawarah, a self-organised care initiative focusing on symbiosism with the earth through collective learning. In 2018 he moved to Jordan and have been working with JOHUD’s 52 centers in Jordan. He has a PhD in Education from Harvard University in 1988, MS in Mathematics education from Florida State University in 1966, and a BS in Mathematics from the AUB in 1962. Munir Faseh has published many books and articles in Arabic and English, several of them in the Harvard Educational Review, and participated in numerous conferences as a keynote speaker and/or lecturer. [bio edited 2021]

is an artist working in Kirkenes in Østfinnmark in Northern Norway. Her artistic practice encompasses installation, sculpture, and drawing, and is often determined by the materials she works with. [bio edited 2023]

is a curator and researcher working across the fields of visual arts, design, and architecture. She has until recently been an Associate Curator at Z33 – House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium. She has in different contexts been working with issues of pedagogy and spaces for learning and knowledge production and in her PhD thesis Toward an Ecology of Knowledges: Critical Pedagogy and Epistemic Disobedience in Contemporary Visual Art and Design Practices she explored and discussed in depth historical and contemporary theory and practice in this field. Curatorial projects include: Le Déracinement. On Diasporic Imaginations, Z33, Hasselt (2021); research program The Politics of Affinity. Experiments in Art, Education and the Social Sphere, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (2016–18); participation on the curatorial team of The School of Kyiv—Kyiv Biennial 2015; and the exhibition, symposium, and educational program Global Tools 1973–1975: Towards an Ecology of Design, SALT, Istanbul (2014).

Silvia Franceschini is an editor of The Politics of Affinity. Experiments in Art, Education and the Social Sphere, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, 2018, and a co-author of Global Tools 1973–1975. When Education Coincides With Life, Nero Publishing, 2019. [bio edited 2021]

is an architect who graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (2021) and is now concluding an MSc at the IUAV. Her investigations began when she carried out research with Tipografia Paulistana, underlining the value of graphic design as part of São Paulo’s memory. Through her studies in Heritage at TU Delft (2019) and with the group Demonumenta, which unfolds heritage in Brazil through decoloniality, she seeks to further explore the theme of memory. Moreover, she deepened her knowledge of Urban Studies with the PC3 group, and through methodologies encountered in her studies at ETH Zurich (2020). Her professional experience began in Portugal at Merooficina (2020) and the French studio CoBe Architecture et Paysage (2020-2021). Later, she joined the research team in the Netherlands at Het Nieuwe Instituut (2021), collaborated with the Venice Biennale (2023), and is currently engaged with ECC Italy.

is a New York-based architect and historian. He works as Assistant Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. His scholarship addresses the relationship between architecture, politics, and media, with a particular focus on nationalism, colonialism, and migration as well as questions of diversity and critical access in design practice and education. He has published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, The Journal of Architecture, and Architectural Review among others, and has co-edited the volumes After Belonging (Lars Muller, 2016) and Radical Pedagogies (MIT Press, forthcoming 2022). His work expands the reach of architectural history through diverse media and collaborative platforms, and has resulted in installations at the Venice Biennale 2014 and 2021, the Lisbon Triennale 2013, and the Center for Architecture in New York in addition to co-curating the Oslo Triennale 2016. His work as a designer is part of the permanent collection of the Pompidou Center. [bio edited 2021]

is an architect, curator and writer. Since 2017, he has been the Creative Director of Design Academy Eindhoven. In 2014, he was appointed Artistic Director of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019. He is a founder and partner at Space Caviar, an architecture and research practice operating at the intersection of design, technology, critical theory and the public realm. From 2014 to 2017, Joseph Grima was Director of IdeasCity, an itinerant program of conferences and residencies organized by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, in New York. In 2014, he was appointed Co-Curator of the first Chicago Architecture Biennial, the largest exhibition of contemporary architecture in the history of North America. In 2012, he co-directed the first Istanbul Design Biennial. From 2011 to 2013 he was Editor-in-Chief of Domus and between 2007 and 2010 he was the Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture, an independent gallery in New York City. [bio edited 2018]

is an urbanist and cultural worker based in Cape Town, South Africa. In urban environments, Gumede is interested in the intersection of city-making processes and citizenship, as well as exploring the limits of contemporary urbanism discourse. Gumede holds a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and is currently pursuing an MPhil in Southern Urbanism at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Gumede was the Vice President of the Kwa-Zulu Natal Society of Arts, mainly serving on the curatorial and education committee. He was a 2021 Research Fellow at the Centre for Arts, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR) and a Black Planetary Futures collective member. Gumede also has experience working as a researcher in institutional development projects that involve strategic and operational planning, project management, monitoring and evaluation as well as partnership management for municipalities. [bio edited 2023]

works as a cultural guide and food creator with Jokkmokk as her starting point. In 2010, she was educated in Sámi food under the leadership of Greta Huvva at Sámij åhpadusguovdásj (the Sámi Education Center). Since 2011, Gunnare has run Essence of Lapland. [bio edited 2023]

is a Stockholm-based Artist Filmmaker working with choreographed documentary, film adaptations of stage work and digital content for Art Institutions. [bio edited 2023]

is a professor of doudji at the Sámi allaskuvla/Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino. She does practical duodji work alongside writing about the practice of duodji and its role in Sami society. [bio edited 2023]

is an artist who works in installation, time-based public art, and performance. She co-founded Zaccho Dance Theatre in San Francisco, CA, US, in 1980. Haigood has been creating work that uses natural, architectural, and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative. Her stages have included grain terminals, a clock tower, the pope’s palace, military forts, and a mile of urban neighborhood streets in the South Bronx. Her work has been commissioned by many arts institutions, including Dancing in the Streets, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, McColl Center, Walker Arts Center, the Exploratorium Museum, the National Black Arts Festival, Equal Justice Society, and the Festival d’Avignon. She has also been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the United States Artist Fellowship, and a New York Bessie Award. Haigood is also a recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award and was a CAD+SR Research Fellow, 2020-2022. [bio edited 2023]

is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His work into the fields of anthropology, geography, marxists studies, political-economy, urban studies and cultural studies have made him one of the most influential thinkers alive. Over his lifetime David Harvey has been dedicated to the production and transfer of critical knowledge to academics and the general public alike, his online lectures on Marx’s Capital volume have been downloaded over half a million times with pending translations in over 129 languages, and his co-produced animation on the Crisis of Capitalism has been watched over 3 million times. He has published 26 books, many of them widely influential in the humanities, social sciences as well as the art and design fields. He is the recipient of twelve honorary doctorates. In 2019 he was granted the Leverhulme Gold Medal of the British Academy for Creative Contributions to the Social Sciences. [bio edited 2021]

is an architect, artist and researcher working between Sudan and The Netherlands. She trained her focus on the subtle politics of space—namely, how built spaces react to and reinforces violence from state entities, which in turn, creates a built environment that regulates the lives of those who inhabit it. Her most recent work explores an idea of “space as discourse,” an expanded notion of space that encompasses political and environmental questions. Her work tries to develop a spatial vocabulary that follows how ruptures presented by ‘political events’, make it possible to aspire to new kinds of ecologies. Ola’s development of critical spatial practice is partly informed by her post-academic training;  an ongiong Rijksakademie residency, a BAK fellowship 2017-2018 and teaching in HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and Sandberg Institute amongst others. [bio edited 2022]

explores urban transformation, spatial justice and self-organization, in his artistic practice, writing and research – often through collaborative and collective practice. He is editor of the independent newspaper Stockholmstidningen and member of the collective research projects Mapping the Unjust City and Agentur. Since 2007 he is also active in the self managed cultural space and urban common Cyklopen in Högdalen, Stockholm. [bio edited 2021]

endeavors to bring research on architecture and cities to bear on struggles for rights, justice, and democracy across a range of global sites. He is co-founding member of a series of militant research collaboratives including the We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective, Detroit Resists, and the Settler Colonial City Project; he is also co-founder of the Decolonizing Pedagogies Workshop at the University of Michigan, where he teaches.  Among his books are Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (Stanford University Press, 2010), The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit (University of Michigan Press, 2012), Displacements: Architecture and Refugee (Sternberg Press, 2017), and The Global Shelter Imaginary: Ikea Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief, co-authored with Daniel Bertrand Monk (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming). [bio edited 2021]

is an architect and researcher, currently based in Stockholm. She was the Head of the Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Program in the West Bank at UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) from 2008 to 2014. In 2007, together with Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman, she founded DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency) in Beit Sahour, Palestine. DAAR was awarded the Claus Prize for Architecture, the Foundation for Arts Initiative Grant, shortlisted for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize, and showed in various biennales and museums around the world (www.decolonizing.ps). Together with Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal founded Campus in Camps, an experimental educational program hosted in Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem (www.campusincamps.ps). Together with Alessandro Petti she co-authored the book Architecture after Revolution (Sternberg, Berlin 2014), an invitation to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonization. [bio edited 2019]

works as an independent scholar and curator. He authored and co-authored various books and organized exhibitions—most recently, Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930 (with Anselm Franke), and Education Shock. Learning, Politics and Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s, both at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. In 2015 he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. Recent book publications include Knowledge Beside Itself. Contemporary Art’s Epistemic Politics Sternberg Press, 2020) and Politics of Learning, Politics of Space. Architecture and the Education Shock of the 1960s and 1970s (De Gruyter, 2021). [bio edited 2021]

is an artist, craft practitioner and pedagogue. Their practice is based on Norrbotten and queer perspectives and seeks to explore various aspects of belonging by means of a union of weaving, learning, and collaborative creation. Ida Isak Westerberg’s was trained in weaving and artistic embroidery at Friends of Handicraft in Stockholm and has been living and working in Älvsbyn in Norrbotten since the fall of 2018. [bio edited 2023]

is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourses of field recording, noise, and sound art. His work posits expanded listening cultures of sonic thought and sound practices; propositions to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms through compositions, installations, and performances. He has earned international acclaim for his ‘ambient’ recordings, including his album Peel, released on Editions Mego, sweeping 2020 end year lists from Pitchfork, RA, DJ Mag, Bandcamp to Boomkat, and many more. He has also earned international acclaim for his performances in far-flung locales as well as his most recent release, Temporary Stored. KMRU presents a monthly show on Internet Public Radio, guests on NTS and Rinse FM, organizes workshops for the Nairobi Ableton User group, is a core member of Black Bandcamp. He was a CAD+SR Research Fellow, 2020-2022. [bio edited 2023]

is an architect and educator, currently lecturing at Umeå University School of Architecture since 2015, where she has held the positions of Deputy Head and Program Director [2016-2020] responsible for the development and implementation of innovative pedagogical structures and approaches in education. During the past years, in collaboration with Prof. Robert Mull and within the context of UMA and the Global Free Unit she has carried out a number of summer courses and live workshops both in Izmir-Turkey and Lesvos-Greece working closely with local communities and different actors to address the topic of displacement. In recent years and working together with Sangram Shirke this has led to the establishment of the socially embedded live project studio: Architecture for Displaced Populations in Greece and Turkey. In 2007 she co-founded the i.architects design studio in Athens and in 2011, she was part of the team to start up the AMC School of Architecture in Athens-Greece in close collaboration with the University of East London. Amalia Katopodis completed her postgraduate studies at the University of East London in 2004, with focus on social sustainability in architecture and urban design and has practiced architecture in various large-scale offices. [bio edited 2022]

is an artist and painting teacher in middle school. Her research is focusing on the extracted geographies of Southeast Anatolia. In her practice and artistic research, she deals with spatial production, temporality, memory, and belonging. Ecological Mourning is the main theme in her practice and research, with her field research centred in Ilısu Waterdam and the Tigris Valley. She researches dispossessed lands, cultural heritage, agro-ecological practice as resistance, and rights of rivers. She is completing her masters degree on the topic of Ecological Mourning and Hasankeyf in the Visual Communication Design program at Mardin Artuklu University in 2022. In the meanwhile, she conducts pedagogical studies on Visual Arts and Drama for children in the age group seven and sixteen. [bio edited 2023]

PhD is an artist, writer, educator, playground maker, and necromancer. His research-based practice includes films, installations, and archival studies. His works investigate histories from The Global South, labour and the means of production, and histories of political relationships that have existed as a counter narration to the east-west, North-South dichotomy. By bringing multiple subjects into his study, he explores possible correspondences seen through the lenses of contemporary art practice, proletarianism, subalternity, and the technology of image production. His works emphasise films and historical materials to bring questions such as what happens when the narration crosses the border and what the future of our collective past is. In his practice, he reflects upon the marginalia of artistic explorations in relation to art, the history of transnationalism, and global politics. Khosravi Noori is a member of the editorial board of VIS Journal for Nordic Artistic Research and co-founder of Sarazad.art.

takes a variety of approaches to duodji. Her explorative and experimental work happens at House of Duodji, which is based in Jokkmokk. [bio edited 2023]

is Professor of Design Interventions at HDK Academy of Art & Design at the University of Gothenburg. His research is disseminated internationally through exhibitions, education and publications. From 2008-2015, Onkar led the postgraduate design programme Platform 13 at the Royal College of Art, London, an interdisciplinary platform that explored the role of design within political and economic systems, culture and society. His work is in the collection of the CNAP, France, and the Crafts Council, UK. He has guest-curated exhibitions for The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, Karachi, and the Crafts Council, UK. Between 2014 and 2016 he was a Stanley Picker Fellow at Kingston University, UK and he is the co-organizer of the educational framework Night School on Anarres. In 2017 he was the artistic director of the first Gothenburg Design Festival, Open Week. Onkar Kular is currently developing the public usership model and residency programme  Allmänningen (The Common Room) at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing arts, University of Gothenburg and together with Henric Benesch is the organiser of the practice-based platform The Right to design. [bio edited 2021]

is a Berlin based artist who brings together architectural, artistic, and spatial practices to discuss social and political issues. His work is centred around landforms, technology, critical approaches to environment and communities, urban surveillance methodologies, data mapping systems, architectural technologies, oral and cinematographic storytelling, and the questioning of representation techniques. He is a co-founder of Herkes İçin Mimarlık (Architecture for All), a non-profit organisation devoted to offering approaches to social problems in Turkey from an architectural perspective. Yelta Köm is currently working as a research associate and teaching at the Practices and Politics of Representation chair of Bauhaus Universität Weimar Faculty of Architecture. [bio edited 2023]

is Professor in Architectural Theory and History at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, where he conducts post-graduate and pre-doctorate research courses in architecture, design and multimedia communications. Peter Lang works on the history and theory of post-war Italian architecture and design, with a focus on sixties Italian experimental design, media and environments. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Rome-based urban arts research group Stalker. Peter Lang has written and curated a number of projects on the Italian Radical Design and Architecture movement, most recently in 2016 The Mondial Festival in Mashup: the Birth of Modern Culture at Vancouver Art Gallery Museum, and in 2013, at the Graham Foundation Chicago, Lang co-curated, together with Luca Molinari and Mark Wasiuta, the fourth edition of Environments and Counter Environment: Italy the New Domestic Landscape. [bio edited 2018]

is an artist/designer, researcher and visiting lecturer. He was born in London and moved to Hong Kong eleven years ago to complete a Masters in Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His projects range from collective agriculture projects such as The HK FARMers’ Almanac 2014-2015 to Pangkerchief, produced by Pang Jai fabric market in Sham Shui Po. 

Michael is a visiting lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University where he teaches social practice (MA). He is currently doing his PhD at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Insurrectionary Agricultural Milieux, rhizomatic forms of agriculture that exist in local response to global conditions of biopolitics and neoliberalism. [bio edited 2021]

is an architect and a historian of objects, buildings, and landscapes. Her work studies how spatial practices of power and resistance shape the modernity of the Americas. León teaches at the University of Michigan and is co-founder of several collaborations laboring to broaden the reach of architectural history including the Decolonizing Pedagogies Workshop, Nuestro Norte es el Sur, and the Settler Colonial City Project. She has co-organized several teacher-to-teacher workshops exploring architectural history’s relationship to intersectional feminism, the global, the South, decolonization, and antiracism. Her book, Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires, was recently published by the University of Texas Press. [bio edited 2021]

is a Stockholm based architect and Senior Lecturer at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, and former Associate Professor at the KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm. In 2004 he co-founded International Festival, a practice working on context-specific projects spanning from buildings, publications, films, installations, public interventions and situations. In 2010 he initiated Economy together with Art Director Jessica Watson-Galbraith. Within the research project Space, Power and Ideology he did research on the recent history of alternative practices in the field of architecture and design. As an associate professor at KTH (2008-2018) he was responsible for a studio focused on developing design methods linked to social and political dimensions of architecture in various local context. The courses focused on Million Homes Program neighbourhoods such as Tensta, Rinkeby and Northern Botkyrka, in the greater Stockholm. The work was always long-term and in close collaboration with different local organizations and individuals. [bio edited 2018]

is an artist, teacher and researcher. Graduated in Geography at the University of São Paulo and Master in Clinical Psychology / Subjectivity Studies at PUC-SP (2017) with the dissertation “Beijo de línguas” (Tongue Kiss – when the deaf poet and the hearing poet meet) under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Suely Rolnik. Founding member of the art-politics-education collective Grupo Contrafilé and the performance study group Slam do Corpo, which since 2012 has been developing the 1st poetry battle in Brazil with deaf and hearing poets. Since 2000, she has worked training teachers and educators in cultural shows and exhibitions. Cibele develops and participates in projects as an illustrator, working mainly with drawing and embroidery. One of her main quests is to strengthen networks and radical methodologies for meeting, listening and creating. [bio edited 2021]

are architects working and living between Belgrade and Rotterdam. In 2000 they founded STEALTH.unlimited. Although initially trained as architects, for over 15 years their work is equally based in the context of contemporary art and culture. Through intensive collaboration with individuals, organisations and institutions, STEALTH connect urban research, visual arts, spatial interventions and cultural activism. Ana Džokić was trained as an architect at the University of Belgrade and completed a two-year postgraduate program at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. In May 2017 she received PhD at the Royal Institute of Art (KKH) in Stockholm, with a practice based research titled Upscaling, Training, Commoning. Marc Neelen received his degree in architecture at the Delft University of Technology in Delft, and from 2012-2017 held the position of a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield, School of Architecture. [bio edited 2021]

is an artist and educator currently teaching visual culture at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon in France. She has taught at the Parsons School of Art in Paris, the San Francisco Art Institute and in several non-academic contexts; with feminists associations, and other cultural and social venues, in France and abroad. Since 2018, she focuses on developing critical pedagogies in art schools. She co-organized in 2020, the “Teaching to Transgress Toolbox,” a European research program for artists, researchers, students, and educators to develop tools to foster inclusive pedagogies in art institutions. She is currently on the CAD+SR Advisory Board. [bio edited 2023]

is a curator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Victoria worked for over three years as a visual arts producer and education coordinator at the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires, the largest cultural centre in Latin America. In 2021, she relocated to Sweden in pursuit of an International Masters in Curating Art at Stockholm University. In Stockholm, she co-curated and project-managed Tunnel Vision for Nobel Week Lights Festival 2021; co-curated the newly commissioned performance piece How to Draw a Voice for Accelerator; and coordinated the IASPIS Open Studios Autumn 2022, IASPIS’ signature open house event for artists in residence. Victoria’s curatorial research explores the intersection between lithium extraction and contemporary art, exploring artworks that critically engage with the myth of the ‘green’ transition. [bio edited 2023]

is a curator, writer, editor and researcher. A research fellow with the Center for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, they have previously held fellowships with the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Center for Arts, Design + Social Research (CADSR), and 32° Degrees East | Ugandan Arts Trust. They were also the Managing Editor of Writivism, a pan-African literary initiative and have their writing published in Artforum, African Arguments, Africa is a Country, Johannesburg Review of Books, Literary Hub, and others. Mirembe is also currently researching the ARAK Art Collection. [bio edited 2023]

is a researcher, visual artist, and post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP). He holds a Ph.D. of Arts at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), with an exchange at the University of Arts of Helsinki (Kuva Art Academy). He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR) and member of the Decay without mourning project: future thinking heritage practices. [bio edited 2023]

is a New York based architect writer, podcaster, and strategist focusing on urban planning and architecture. She is the editor of a book series on social justice, Taking Freedom, which will be published through a collaboration between the Service Employees International Union, Sage Publications, and the Community Innovators Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her podcast Here There Be Dragons takes an in-depth look at the intersection of identity politics and security policy in public space through the eyes of city residents. In the past, she has worked in diverse roles – archivist, researcher, analyst – in both New York and Paris, and within cultural practices that include Bernard Tschumi Architects. Jess Myers was recently a IASPIS grantholder in Stockholm. [bio edited 2019]

is an artist and an architect based in Norway. He is a founding member of the architectural collective FFB which works with temporary architecture in urban contexts. His works explore the boundary between architecture, design and visual art. Joar Nango relates to questions of indigenous identity, often through investigating the oppositions and contradictions in contemporary architecture. He has worked on the theme The Modern Sámi Space through, amongst other things, a self-published zine series entitled Sámi Huksendáidda: the Fanzine, design project Sámi Shelters and the mixtape/clothing project Land & Language. His projects have taken him to different places in the Sápmi where he made detailed studies of Sámi architecture. Joar Nango is currently an Iaspis grantholder in Stockholm. [bio edited 2019]

works as a Craft and Design Consultant in Region Norrbotten with the mission to promote crafts in the area. She creates activities aimed at a broad variety of target groups, including children and youths, hobby practitioners, as well as professional crafters. An important part of her job is to make craft available and inclusive to people who usually do not participate in the practice. [bio edited 2023]

is an artist, film maker, curator, writer, publisher and activist based in Jingzhou, China. He is the director of the documentaries San Yuan Li (2003) and Meishi Street (2006); chief curator of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (2009); jury member of 8th Benesse Prize at 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); member of the Asian Art Council at the Guggenheim Museum (2011); founding chief editor of the literary journal Chutzpah!(2010-2014); founder of the Bishan Project (2011-2016); a visiting professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (2016-2017); and a senior research fellow of the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research in Boston (2019-2021). His collected writings Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction is just published by Palgrave Macmillan (2020). [bio edited 2021]

Dr., is an award-winning medical anthropologist with specialization in sexual and reproductive health, sexual rights, and human sexualities in Uganda and The Gambia. She self-identifies as a radical queer feminist scholar, social justice activist, human rights defender, non-violent protester, poet, Facebooker, opposition politician belonging to the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), former aspirant for Kampala Woman Member of Parliament (2020–21), an ex-prisoner from Luzira Women’s Maximum-Security Prison, and mother of three teenagers. Her first poetry anthology, No Roses From My Mouth: Poems From Prison, was written while imprisoned in Uganda before she was acquitted after 15 months. She is a 2022 recipient of the Writers-in-Exile Programme of the German PEN Center, and a 2022 CAD+SR Faculty Fellow. [bio edited 2023]

is a composer, organist and musician based in Kiruna, Sweden. [bio edited 2023]

is a Curator and Director of Programs at RAW Material Company where she has organized exhibitions and related discursive programs including the participation of RAW to “We face forward: Art from West Africa Today” Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; ICI Curatorial Hub at TEMP, New York; The 9^th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai; MARKER Art Dubai (2013). She co-curated Scattered Seeds in Cali-Colombia (2015-2017) and curated Battling to normalize freedom at Clarkhouse Initiative in Mumbai, India (2017). Pereira was a co-curator of Canine Wisdom for the Barking Dog – The Dog Done Gone Deaf. Exploring The Sonic Cosmologies of Halim El-Dabh with Dr Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung at the 13th edition of Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African art (2018). In 2021 she was selected as one of the recipients of the ICI Curatorial Research Fellowship – a Marian Goodman Gallery initiative conceived by artist Steve McQueen – in honor of the late Okwui Enwezor. Pereira is a member of Kader Attia’s curatorial team for the 12^th Berlin Biennale in June 2022. [bio edited 2022]

is a Professor of Architecture and Social Justice at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and co-director of DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency), an architectural studio and residency program centre around the relation of politics and architecture. In 2012 with Sandi Hilal he founded Campus in Camps, an experimental educational program in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem. His lasted publication, Permanent Temporariness (Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm 2019), is a book, a catalogue, and an archive that accounts for fifteen years of research, experimentation, and creation against and within the condition of permanent temporariness. [bio edited 2020]

 is a journalist and podcast producer based in Paris. She produced and hosted Emotions – a 50-minute bi-monthly show exploring why we feel what we feel and what our feelings tell us about us as human beings and about the world we live in— for Louie Media, a French podcast production company. She graduated from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 2015, which she attended thanks to a Fulbright scholarship. During her career, Adélie has worked in Jerusalem, in Naples, Florida for the Naples Daily News and as a reporter in Santiago, Chile, for a local news radio station. She also covered the Paris terror attacks in November 2015 as a special correspondent. While working on season 2 of Here There Be Dragons in 2016 – 2017, she worked as an editor at BuzzFeed France. [bio edited 2019]

is a Canarian architect living in New York. He is a full-time lecturer at The University of Pennsylvania’s school of design, where he is also a Senior Fellow at PennPraxis. He teaches history and theory courses and architectural design studios, paying particular attention to architecture’s capacity to translate, operate in, and contribute to insurgent social and political movements. His research and pedagogical project “Architectures of Refusal” focuses on architecture and social mobilization for solidarity economies and decolonial practices. He is co-founder of the interdisciplinary research and design studio Interim Projects. [bio edited 2021]

is an architect, lecturer and researcher at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Since 2018 she has been teaching the course Decolonizing Architecture. Her current research explores invisibility as a critical strategy, subjectivity and spatial category in the ongoing research project: Hyper-visible Invisibility: Tracing the Politics, Poetics and Affects of the Unseen, published in The Field Journal: Becoming a Feminist Architect (2017). And in the collaborative artistic research project Spaces of Care Disobedience and Desire: Tactics of Minority Space-Making, initiated together with Rado Ištok and Natalia Rebelo at the Royal Academy of Art. [bio edited 2020]

is an urbanist with expertise in the design and analysis of complex urban systems and urban political-ecology. He is an associate professor of urbanism and director of the graduate urban programs at The New School / Parsons School of Design in New York City. He is a founding member of Urban Front, a transnational consultancy focused on helping progressive public and social sectors address critical urban issues including housing rights, environmental justice, public health, cultural action, sustainable infrastructure and political strategy. He is also co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), a globally recognized nonprofit cooperative for socio-spatial design and development based in New York City and Rotterdam. The work of Robles-Durán has been exhibited in numerous venues around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), MAK Museum Vienna, La Biennale di Venezia, the Istanbul Design Biennial, the Shenzhen Biennial, Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Rotterdam Biennial and the Lisbon Architecture Triennial. [bio edited 2021]

is an artist living and working in Berlin, teaching, writing and exhibiting internationally. Her main artistic interests are around the processes through which images, languages and spaces become institutionalised and appear as naturalised, and how these processes influences our way of inhabiting and understanding the world. Katya Sander is Professor at Nordlands Kunst og Filmskole in Kabelvåg, Lofoten, where she is in charge of developing structures and frameworks for teaching, learning and researching artistically for the school at large; i.e. for students as well as for academic staff. Together with Professor Pelin Tan she initiated the research hub Resilient Infrastructures as an example of a framework for content- and interest-driven research in an art- and film-school. [bio edited 2021]

is an architect, researcher, writer, curator and educator based in New York. She’s the founding director of the architectural think-tank FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory. FAST uses research, advocacy, and design to investigate the relationships between architecture, urban planning, and human rights. Its cross-disciplinary and multi-scalar work explores the mechanisms behind, and the impact of systemic and spatial violence on people’s living environments and livelihood. FAST develops collaborative initiatives and designs to promote spatial and social justice. She is currently Area Head of the Art, Design, and the Public Domain Master in Design Studies at Harvard GSD and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. She’s the author of numerous books and publications including Atlas of Conflict: Israel-Palestine (Uitgeverij 2010, 2010), Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism (NAiM, 2012), Drone. UNMANNED. Architecture and Security Series (DPR-Barcelona, 2016-2018), Retreat. UNMANNED. Architecture and Security Series (DPR-Barcelona, 2020) and the co-author of the book Village. One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise (Damiani Editore, 2014). In 2016 Malkit Shoshan was the curator of the Dutch Pavilion for The Venice Architecture Biennale with the exhibition BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions, which examines the spatiality and legacy of UN Peace Operations in conflict-affected urban environments. In 2021, she won The Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for her collaborative project Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip: Watermelon, Sardines, Crabs, Sand, and Sediment. [bio edited 2021]

is a postdoctoral research associate at the Faculty of Education at Bielefeld University. Her research focuses on racism and critical education as well as questions of difference and hegemony. One of the main concerns in her research is the analysis of educational institutions regarding their power structure and exclusionary practices. She also works on postcolonial perspectives and knowledge production. Saphira has been a member of the bildungsLab* since 2017. [bio edited 2021]

is a writer, curator and researcher based in New York. She is a research assistant at the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. She received her MA in curatorial studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. [bio edited 2021]

(1952-2020) was a philosopher and director of IRI at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmith College in London, and a Professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, where he taught philosophy. Before taking up the post at the Pompidou Center, he was Program Director at the International College of Philosophy, Deputy Director General of the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, then Director General at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM). Stiegler published widely on philosophy, technology, digitization, capitalism, and consumer culture. Among his writings, his three volumes of  La Technique et Le Temps (English Translation: Technics and Time), Acting Out, translated by David Barison, Daniel Ross, and Patrick Crogan (Stanford University Press, 2009), two volumes of De La Misère Symbolique, three volumes of Mécréance et Discrédit  and two volumes of  Constituer l’Europe  are particularly well known. He was a CAD+SR Faculty Fellow in 2019. [bio edited 2023]

is a Ph.D. architect, urbanist, and activist for the urban commons, Associate Professor, at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus. His research focuses on the political agencies of architecture and urban design. He studies the strategic value of urban design, as well as the social dimensions of architecture plus the ways they both transform into critical urban practices. Socrates oscillates between reflective practice and practice-based research, thanks to entanglements between teaching, practicing, curating, and writing. He enriches his research by operating in a highly contested territory, such as the Cypriot one, plus by having an active contribution to the becoming of young European urban design practices through his scientific position in EUROPAN Europe. He’s one of the main founders of the critical urban practice agency AA & U, Cyprus. Soctates’ curatorial and activist work involves the Cyprus participation in the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture, as well as the “Hands-on Famagusta” project and he was the editor of the book “Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces”, jovis. 2016. [bio edited 2020]

is a collective that consists of journalists Astrid Fadnes, Ingrid Fadnes, Eva Maria Fjellheim, and Susanne Normann. They have collaborated on various projects in South America, Norway, and Sápmi in which they have addressed issues like feminism, extractivism, and the autonomy and territorial struggles of indigenous peoples. [bio edited 2023]

is an urban planner; completed her thesis Spaces of Commons of Dispossessed Women: Women’s Laundry House of Benusen Neighborhood/ Diyarbakır and The Women’s Center/ The Square at the Fawwar Camp/West Bank (Palestine) under the Supervisor of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pelin Tan (Mardin Artuklu University – Architecture Faculty). Yildiz’s research trajectory is about ecological feminist approaches on architecture, urbanism and spatial practices. Between 2013 and 2017, she worked at the Urban Planning Department of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality and, among many other positions and commissions, she has been a delegate of Diyarbakır Branch of the Chamber of City Planners TMMOB (Union Of Chambers Of Turkish Engineers And Architects). [bio edited 2023]

is the 6th recipient of the Keith Haring Art and Activism and fellow of Bard College of the Human Rights Program and Center for Curatorial Studies, NY, 2019-2020. She is a sociologist, art historian and currently Professor, Fine Arts Faculty, Batman University, Turkey. Tan is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, Boston; and researcher at the Architecture Faculty, University of Thessaly, Volos (2020-2025). She is the co-curator of the Cosmological Gardens project by CAD+SR and she was the curator of the Gardentopia project of Matera ECC 2019. Tan, was a Postdoctoral fellow on Artistic Research at ACT Program, MIT 2011; and a Phd scholar of DAAD Art History, at Humboldt Berlin University, 2006. Her field research was supported by The Japan Foundation, 2011; Hong Kong Design Trust, 2016, CAD+SR 2019. She was a guest professor at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut 2021; Visiting Professor at School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2016 and at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, 2018. Between 2013 and 2017 she was an Associate Professor of the Architecture Faculty at Mardin Artuklu University. She is a member of Imece refugee Solidarity Association and co-founder of Imece Academy; advisor of The Silent University and the pedagogical consortium of Dheisheh Palestinian Refugee Camp, Palestine. In 2008 she was an IASPIS grantholder. Together with Magnus Ericson she is the curator of Urgent Pedagogies. [bio edited 2021]

is a Lebanese curator and the founding director of Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts. Since its founding in 1993, Ashkal Alwan has been committed to contemporary artistic practice, research, and education. In 2016–18, Christine Tohmé curated Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj. Tohmé is also on the boards of Marsa, a sexual health centre for at-risk youth and marginalised communities in Beirut; Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry; Haven for Artists, a Beirut-based artist collective; and the International Biennial Association, a platform for contemporary art institutional knowledge production and exchange. [bio edited 2022]

is a textile designer and PhD researcher who works in the intersection of craft and design. She often creates physical spaces around the practice of handweaving, using craft as a catalyst for physical, social, and creative interactions. [bio edited 2023]

are architects working and living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both studied architecture and urbanism at the FADU-UBA (Argentina) in the late eighties. From 1999 till 2004 they were founders and members of “m777”, an architect’s collective working on the fringes of the professional field. In 2005 they founded m7red. [bio edited 2021]

are artists, educators, and co-founders of the Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research practice that facilitates exchange amongst diverse nodes of knowledge production and artistic practice in pursuit of projects that transform civic spaces and collective imaginaries. Urbonas have exhibited internationally including the São Paulo, Berlin, Moscow, Lyon, Gwangju, Busan, Taipei Biennales, Folkestone Triennial, Manifesta and Documenta exhibitions, including a solo show at the Venice Biennale and MACBA in Barcelona. Urbonas curated the Swamp School at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale 2018. The book Swamps and the New Imagination: On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy is forthcoming in 2021 (Sternberg, MIT Press). Gediminas is Associate Professor at MIT‘s Program in Art, Culture and Technology, and Nomeda is research affiliate at MIT. [bio edited 2021]

is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP. He served as Dean from 2004 to 2014. Wigley has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture and is the author of Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire (1998); White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (1995); and The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt (1993). He co-edited The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationalist Architectures from Constant’s New Babylon to Beyond (2001). In 2005 he co-founded Volume magazine with Rem Koolhaas and Ole Bouman as a collaborative project by Archis (Amsterdam), AMO (Rotterdam), and C-lab (Columbia University). Wigley curated the exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture at The Museum of Modern Art, and others at The Drawing Center, New York; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam. Mark Wigley was awarded the Resident Fellowship, Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism (1989), International Committee of Architectural Critics (C.I.C.A.) Triennial Award for Architectural Criticism (1990) and a Graham Foundation Gran (1997). He received both his Bachelor of Architecture (1979) and his Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. [bio edited 2018]

who was born in Kiruna in 1930, is a weaver and educator. She trained at Friends of Handicraft, and spent many years working as a weaving teacher in Kiruna. She has published four books about her own weaves and historical weaving. Outside of Norrbotten, her work has reached an international audience, partly as a result of one of her books being translated to English. [bio edited 2023]

works as a researcher, artist and educator. Graduated in Social Sciences and Journalism, she has been investigating the relationships between culture, body and urban space in different ways for more than twenty years. In 2012, she defended her Master’s dissertation Space as Work – Actions, Artistic Collectives and City at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo. In 2017, a book with the same title was edited by Annablume with support from Fapesp. This same year, as a Fapesp fellow, Joana defended her doctoral thesis Arte em Fuga (Art in Escape), with focus on the points of convergence between art and social movements today. She founded the artistic collective Contrafilé Group. Since 2000 Joana works as a teacher and coordinator of cultural projects focused on contemporary art education for young people and teachers, from a political and critical perspective, in partnership with different institutions in São Paulo and Brazil. [bio edited 2021]

is a practitioner-researcher specialising in collaborative media production, participatory audiovisual research methodologies, audiovisual heritage of social movements, and media historiography. She has been involved in projects that foster collective filmmaking, visual ethnography of local and urban transformation, political conflicts in border zones, and autonomous trans-media. She is co-founder of the digital media archive of social movements bak.ma that emerged in the Gezi Park protests (2013). She is co-editor of the books; Surplus of Istanbul (2014, free pub.) and ‘Autonomous Archiving’ (dpr-barcelona 2016, 2020), and she has contributed to publications on film, video, activism, and archiving. [bio edited 2023]

is an urban planner. Her research focuses on the geography of trash/waste, Z. Bauman and biopolitics, and the anthropocene. She completed her master degree in Politics and the Geography of Trash/Waste at the Master Program of Architecture at Mardin Artuklu University under the Supervisor of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pelin Tan. She is a grants manager of International Medical Corps Turkey, an international humanitarian aid organisation for Refugees in Turkey that provides medical and outreach support to cross-border. She is responsible for conducting projects on the field, coordinating with local NGOs. She was the Project Coordinator of Mardin WasteWater Treatment Plant Project on behalf of Mardin Metropolitan Municipality for two years and she is a member of the Chamber of City Planner and Association of Human Rights in Diyarbakır. [bio edited 2023]

is an architect and activist based in Istanbul. She is trained in architecture but holds also a Master of Science degree with a thesis on alternative process-based approaches to Architecture. She is continuing her PhD studies at İstanbul Technical University and, since 2011, she conducts projects at Herkes İçin Mimarlık Derneği (Architecture for All Association – HIM). This is a non-profit organization devoted to offering architectural solutions to social problems faced today in Turkey and beyond, and promoting participatory design process in architectural education. Merve Gül Özokcu has worked for over 4 years as an instructor at several universities. She became a part of Abdullah Gül University’s Campus Project, Greyder Shoe Factory with Cirakoglu Architects. She has earned several awards such as Archiprix Graduation Project in Architecture. Her articles, interviews and selected projects have been published and exhibited in various media. [bio edited 2018]