Joar Nango is an artist and architect. He was trained at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU in Trondheim, Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) in Bergen and Weissensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin. He co-founded the architectural collective Felleskapsprosjektet å Fortette Byen (FFB), together with Eystein Talleraas and Håvard Arnhoff, in 2010. FFB was nominated by Norsk Form as Young Architects of the Year in 2012. Nango has exhibited extensively internationally, including at Documenta14 and Sakahan. He was the Festival Artist at Bergen Kunsthall in 2020. Nango lives and works in Tromsø.

An Fonteyne (1971) is an architect and professor of architectural design. She grew up in Ostend (Belgium) and graduated as an architect at Ghent University in 1994. She worked at DKV architecten in Rotterdam and David Chipperfield architects in London.

In 1999 she founded noAarchitecten together with Jitse van den Berg and Philippe Viérin. Their work is based on a strong confidence in the future of urban society. They do not see architecture as a discipline that is practised in isolation, but as a continuous conversation that they like to have with other critical thinkers from various disciplines. As a team of about twenty five people, noAarchitecten is working on an oeuvre of diverse buildings, including public institutions, housing and transformations of historical buildings. Their work arises in a strong connection with the layered history of the practice of building, but at the same time focuses on the contemporary conditions of living together.

Since 2017, An Fonteyne has also been a partner at Atelier Kanal, the architecture collective that was founded between noAarchitecten, EM2N (Zurich) and Sergison Bates (London) for the transformation of the former Citroën garage into Kanal, a museum and workshop for modern and contemporary art, performance and architecture in Brussels.

Since 2019 An Fonteyne is an elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. An Fonteyne is Professor of Affective Architectures at ETH Zurich since 2017. Previously, she was a lecturer at TU Delft and a professor at Hasselt University. An Fonteyne lives and works in Brussels and Zurich and has two children.

Ludwig Engel is a futurologist and spatial researcher. Together with a dense network of collaborators, his post-disciplinary practice spans from teaching, researching, curating, writing and publishing to organizing workshops, conferences, discourse platforms and advising public and private institutions on the impact of futures and utopias for society’s capabilities to create and design better tomorrows. He directs the Studio for Immediate Spaces at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, together with Julian Schubert (Something Fantastic), teaches at STATION+ at the Department of Architecture (DARCH), ETH Zurich, and campaigns for HouseEurope!

Jayden Ali is the Founding Director of the practice JA Projects and oversees all projects. As an Architect, artist and educator, he has been recognised as a key voice in shaping the future of our cities by the Design Museum, Vogue and Wallpaper Magazine, whilst also being included on the Architects’ Journal’s prestigious ‘40 Under 40’ list. He is a Mayor’s Design Advocate, sits on various quality review panels and is a Dean’s Visit Professor at Columbia University, NYC and Politecnico di Milano, Milan. In 2023, Jayden co-curated the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, with the exhibition ‘Dancing Before the Moon’ being awarded a prestigious special mention.

RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across the world, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment.

Much of RESOLVE’s work aims to provide platforms for the production of new knowledge and ideas. An integral part of this way of working means designing with and for young people and under-represented groups in society. Here, ‘design’ encompasses both physical and systemic intervention, exploring ways of using a project’s site as a resource and working with different communities as stakeholders in the short and long-term management of projects. In this way, design carries more than aesthetic value; it is also a mechanism for political and socio-economic change.

Ben Campkin is Professor of Urbanism and Urban History at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Vice-Dean Public and City Engagement for The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. He was formerly Co-Director of UCL Urban Laboratory 2008–2011 and 2018–2023 and was Director from 2011–2018. Ben is the author of Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture (I.B. Tauris, 2013). He was UK principal investigator on the EU-funded project Night-spaces: Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe (2019–23) and is currently completing a project on night work in London in collaboration with the GLA and UCL Social Data Institute.

Léopold Lambert is a trained architect living in Paris. He is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, a print and online magazine dedicated to the politics of space and bodies. He is also the author of four books examining the complicity of architecture with various regimes of oppression. The first one, published in 2012, was entitled Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence. His next book project will follow this trajectory by examining the role of architecture in five various settler colonial contexts (Ireland, South Africa, Palestine, Algeria, and Kanaky).

Sara Greavu is the Director of Fire Station Artists’ Studios and also works independently as a curator, writer and organiser. She was the curator, with Project Arts Centre, of the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2024) with the artist Eimear Walshe. Recent projects include the research exhibition We realised the power of it – produced with artist Ciara Phillips and former members of the Derry Film and Video Workshop – which dealt with intertwined political and cultural initiatives in Derry in the 1980s.