Contributors

The duo Van Boxel and Koreman and their office ZUS are working on solicited and unsolicited design and research in the field of architecture, urbanism and landscape design. With a strong belief that an architect has to claim a strong position in the public debate on the future of our cities, van Boxel and Koreman […]

Aristide Antonas the Greek architect and writer, currently based in Athens and Berlin, had a PhD in philosophy before being principal in the Antonas office. His literary works are published in Greek. His theater scripts are performed in French and in German.

Nurul Azlan is a PhD Candidate at the Chair of Design as Politics, TU Delft, where she is working on her dissertation; Seditious Spaces: Protest in Postcolonial Kuala Lumpur. Nurul is interested in the power structure that shapes and governs public space in postcolonial societies, and how social media plays a role in redistributing that […]

Yto Barrada was born in Paris in 1971 and grew up in Tangier, Morocco. She studied history and political science at the Sorbonne and photography in New York. Her work — ranging across photographs, films, publications, installations and sculptures — engages with the peculiar situation of her hometown Tangier. Barrada is the founding director of […]

James J. Brown, Jr. is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Digital Studies Center at Rutgers University-Camden. His research focuses on digital rhetoric and software studies. His forthcoming book, ‘Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software’ (University of Michigan Press) examines the ethical and rhetorical underpinnings of networked software environments.

Matthieu Cherubini is currently a PhD candidate at the Design Interactions Department of Royal College of Art. His research by design project examines the moral implications of artificial agents on our everyday lives, both today and in the near future. His work has been exhibited and presented internationally including Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, Resonate, Lift […]

Xavier Delory is a conceptual photographer with a focus on architecture. He studied Interior Architecture, Computer Graphics / 3D and Photography. Currently, his photographic work explores the urban landscape in mutation and the drifts of modern man. He has exhibited his work on numerous occasions throughout Belgium, France, Spain, Turkey and elsewhere.

Fernando P Ferreira is a reseArch(itect), based in Porto (Portugal), whose research is simultaneously practical and theoretical and explores the interaction between art/urban research, media representation and anticipatory design strategies, towards the experimentation of phenomenological ar(t)chitectural practices & tools, focused in learning how to see, interpret, represent and interact with the existing relationships, dynamics and […]

Edwin Gardner is co-founder of Monnik, Office for New Romantic Politics. Together with partner Christiaan Fruneaux he engages artistic, speculative and academic research. They are committed to an inclusive and sustainable future.

Max Haiven is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada. He is author of Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power (2014), The Radical Imagination (with Alex Khasnabish, 2014) and Cultures of Financialization (2014).

Scott Hocking is a site-specific installation artist and photographer based in Detroit. His projects often utilize found materials and abandoned locations, and focus on ideas of transformation, mythology, chance, and nature. His artwork has been exhibited internationally, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, MCA Chicago, Mattress Factory Museum, Van Abbemuseum, Kunst-Werke Institute, and Kunsthalle Wien. […]

Huey Hoong Chan recently graduated from Städelschule academy of fine arts in Frankfurt, Germany, with a Master’s degree in Architecture. His architectural interests stems from a fascination for large buildings along with their associated roles within the city. His work probes the cloak of banality from which capitalism operate to produce strange, new urban types.

Students: Peter Geelmuyden Magnus, Utsav Mathur, Tobias Deeg, Martin Hristov, Rana Abdulmajeed, Nour Mezher, Jean Sebastian Munera, Lili Tayefi Faculty: Edouard Cabay, Rodrigo Aguirre With help from: Angel Muñoz, Pablo Barquin, Carmen Aquilar Wedge, Ramin Shambayati

Dounia is a communications & marketing consultant. A Fulbright graduate from Morocco, her work focuses on creating synergies between public and private sectors. Now based in Amsterdam, she advises nonprofits and international organizations. Previously, she worked with the UN where she documented stories on refugees in Europe. As a writer, she focuses on movement, cultures […]

Rebekka studied art history, economics and modern history. Her works in critical theory, practice and making as critique evolve on the intersections of experimental publishing, socially engaged art, design, and cultural sciences. She has been teaching at several academies/universities – among others Institute Hyperwerk FHNW HGK Basel and SPEAP Science Po Paris – is a […]

Karolina Kowalska (1978) studied Graphic Design at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, and Animation at Hogeschool Gent. She was an Artist-in-residence at Forum Stadtpark Graz, and at Location One in New York City. Since 2009, she has been a participant of Artist Pension Trust/Berlin. Her recent works have focused on photography and installation. Her […]

Christopher Lindinger is director of research and innovations in the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Beside this he also is active as a innovation strategy consultant for companies and governmental organizations, and teaches at several universities.

Ryan Mendoza is an American painter. He works and lives between Naples and Berlin. His work moves between realism and expressionism in the constant retrieval of historical references and depicts scenes that traverse intimate dreads and reveal humanity’s hidden obsessions.

Peder Norrby is a software engineer with an MSc on Computer Science and Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and leader of the Stockholm–based computer technology research and development company Trapcode AB, since 2001. His work spans art and software development.

Irene Pittatore (1979) is an artist and journalist based in Turin (Italy). Her art practice focuses on the social and cultural responsibilities of the artist compared to the context of intervention, investigating the complex relationship between art, gender, economics and the public sphere through photography, performance and relational projects.

Chiara Quinzii (Milan, 1979) graduated from Milan Polytechnic in 2004 with the thesis project ‘Milan Apart’. Before founding Quinzii Terna Architecture in 2012, together with Diego Terna, she worked for Boeri Studio and MVRDV. She teaches at the Milan Polytechnic and collaborates with architectural magazines, online (Arch’it, PressTletter) and printed (C3 Magazine), where she publishes […]

Skid Robot is a guerrilla artist, born and raised in Los Angeles. His Living Art project is an artistic movement that seeks to solve the social issue of homelessness through the power of art and design.

Arthur Röing Baer is a designer and writer. His work includes Commune, a distributed ownership model for urban logistical infrastructures, and Quicksand, a lecture series on the possibility of politicality within contemporary design. He holds a Bachelor in Visual communication from the Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm and a Masters in Design from the […]

Emily Rosamond is a Canadian artist, writer and educator. She completed an Art PhD at Goldsmiths, London, in 2016, where she held a Commonwealth Scholarship. Her doctoral work focused on character as a prominent, speculative, representational logic of personhood in an era of predictive analytics. Rosamond is a lecturer in fine art theory at the […]

Anna Ruminska is a versatile activist, researcher, designer and educator engaged with problems related to public space, anthropology and culinary heritage. She is the founder of the group eMSA Inicjatywa Edukacyjna, a pioneer of architectural education in Poland, a propagator of local edible weeds (Chwastozercy), benchology theory and practise, lobbyist for pedestrian traffic, cultural, spatial, […]

As game designer and artist Schönfelder works on games in both the games industry and independently. Her artistic work often deals with questions surrounding ethics and everyday life challenges and gained international awards and recognition. Schönfelder currently works as game designer for Ustwo Games in London.

Architecture Snob is a collective of curators founded by Tomasz Malkowski and Marcin Szczelina to introduce a critical and substantive discourse into the architectural debate and to promote Polish architecture abroad. They publish their work on contemporary architecture in the magazines Art & Business, Monitor and Domus. In October 2013, they curated Poland’s biggest architecture […]

Elisa Tangheroni is an architect specialized in social sustainability practices and design interventions in the Global South through participative design tools. She researches in the field of human geography to understand local impacts of global phenomena, which have repercussions on contemporary societies and urban settlements. She reports her research through different media such as visual […]

Cassie Thornton works under the title of the Feminist Economics Department (the FED), She uses dance, writing, visual art, hypnosis, experimental research, tours and radio to protect the unknown and reveal debt as a source of solidarity. Her work investigates and reveals the impact of governmental and economic systems on public affect, behavior, and the […]

Alberto Vanolo, PhD in Spatial Planning and Local Development, is professor of Politico-Economic Geography at the University of Turin, Italy, where he teaches Cities and Globalisation and Geographies of Development. His main research interests include urban geography, globalisation studies, cultural geography. He is co-author, with Ugo Rossi, of Urban Political Geography. A Global Perspective (Sage, […]

Maaike Schravesande werkt als ontwikkelaar bij Heijmans, waar ze de werkwijze en maatschappelijke agenda ‘Heijmans&Co’ verwoordde. Als sociaal geograaf is ze altijd bezig met de wisselwerking tussen ruimtelijke inrichting en de mensen die er wonen, werken, leven.

Schrijft essays en boeken op het snijvlak van filosofie en architectuur; in 2014 verscheen “Kleine filosofie van het rijtjeshuis”, in 2019 “Thuis. Filosofische verkenningen van het alledaagse”, volgend jaar verschijnt “Kleine filosofie van het ommetje. Verkenningen van de buurt”.

Architect, medeoprichter van Broedplaats De Ceuvel en woonwij Schoonschip – projecten met een ambitieuze duurzaamheidsvisie die bijdragen aan een rechtvaardigere, inclusievere wereld. Ze combineert kennis op management- en sociaal gebied met ervaring in bottom-up ontwikkelingen bij Common City Development.

Associate professor in environmental planning, institutions and politics. His main theme of research is degrowth and urbanization. He studies the relation between institutions, urban commons and the metabolism of cities. He is the founder and coordinator of the Postgrowth Cities Coalition.

Founder of STUDIO MAKS, an architecture studio where she works primarily on public buildings and housing. She studied at MIT and TU Delft, where she graduated cum laude. Since 2021, she has been a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Leibniz University Hannover, where she conducts research on affordable housing.