Philipp Fleischmann works as an artist and filmmaker in Vienna, Austria. Since 2014, he has been the artistic director of the School Friedl Kubelka for Independent Film, where he himself studied in 2006. Further studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Dorit Margreiter Choy and at the Royal Danish Art Academy with Gerard Byrne.

Simona Ferrari is an architect working across different scales and formats. Practicing both independently and collaboratively, her work explores architecture and the built environment through building, photography, drawing, and writing. Simona studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and the Technical University of Vienna and received her Master’s degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Monbukagakusho fellow. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. Alongside her practice, between 2017-2023, Simona taught and conducted research at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, where she co-authored the book “Swiss Window Journeys: Architectural Field Notes” (gta Verlag, 2023). She was assistant curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). Previously, she worked with Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo, leading several international projects, including the Search Library in Muharraq, Bahrain, installations and exhibitions at the Cultural Center of Chicago, Harvard GSD, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Triennale di Milano. Her project “Landscape In-Between,” for the former industrial site of Acetati in Verbania, Italy, carried out together with Metaxia Markaki, was awarded in the 15th edition of the Europan architectural competition and subsequently developed as an urban plan commissioned by the municipality and involving the local community. Simona was an architect-in-residence at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and at the Charles Moore Foundation in Santa Monica to conduct a research on gardens.

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