From 1991–1996 Hans Schabus studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, since 2014 he is professor of sculpture and spatial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Hans Schabus’ works are immediately related to a spatial thinking and experience; his sculptures and interventions often refer directly to the artist’s mental and physical surroundings, especially to his atelier and the material to be processed there. The place where art is created is investigated in terms of its analogy potential with respect to life. The works can be read as a meditation on the creative act, its aspirations, but also on the difference from everyday activity. The film works that deal with traveling, speed and non-goal-oriented movement refer to the significance of an interdisciplinary reflection for art.

Milica Topalovic is Associate Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the ETH Department of Architecture. From 2011-15 she held research professorship at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, studying the relationship between a city and its hinterland. In 2006 she joined the ETH as head of research at Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute and the professorial chairs held by Diener and Meili, where she taught research studios on cities and on territories such as Hong Kong and the Nile Valley. Milica graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and received Master’s degree from the Dutch Berlage Institute for her thesis on Belgrade’s post-socialist urban transformation. Since 2000, she worked on projects in different spatial scales and visual media. With Studio Basel she authored and edited Belgrade. Formal / Informal: A Research on Urban Transformation, and The Inevitable Specificity of Cities. She contributes essays on urbanism, architecture and art to various magazines and publications.

Bas Princen trained as an industrial designer and architect before earning an international reputation for his photographic work, particularly for reflecting the transformation of urban space. In his projects, he focuses on the frictions between designed surfaces of cities and a “natural” landscape.

Christoph Kaltenbrunner has been head of the Department of Design, Architecture and Environment (DAE) of the Institute of Art Sciences and Art Education at University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2014. He studied mechanical engineering, techni- cal physics, product design and architecture. He received several scholarships to study in Japan, England and the USA. In 1994 he co-founded the internationally known award-winning architecture studio propeller z in Vienna, which he left in 2013 to fully concentrate on research and education. Besides numerous teaching activities including exhibitions, workshops and lecture events, he is responsible for the development of the Bachelor- Master curriculum for the teaching professions at the Angewandte. He was project leader of Conceptual Joining.

In recent years, the artistic work of Songül Boyraz has focused on her own hair in order to explore the experiences of women in public and everyday life (family, religion, hierarchical and social constraints etc.), whose lives are rejected, questioned, and forced to exist within the boundaries set by others in positions of authority. These experiences consist of examples that fundamentally harm human life through physical and psychological violence. The artist’s work, therefore, aims to reflect the destruction and consequences of both psychological and physical bullying from her own perspective.