Anke Freimund, born in 1970 in Steyr, Austria, lives in Vienna. She received an education as a handicraft painter and restorer before beginning her studies in architecture at the Technical University of Vienna in 1991. From 1991 to 1997, she worked in various architectural studios in Vienna and was a member of the Students Department from 1995 to 1997. In 2005, she received her diploma from the Department for Art and Design at the Technical University of Vienna. Since 2006, she has worked at the studio of Roger Karré in Vienna.

Alexander Dworschak, born in 1968 in Baden, Austria, lives in Vienna. He received an education as a handicraft painter and restorer and began working at Oskar Putz Farbkonzepte in 1990. In 1991, he began studying architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. From 1991 to 1997, he worked in various architectural studios in Vienna and was a member of the Students Department from 1995 to 1997.

Julien Diehn, born in 1975 in Berlin, Germany, lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He studied Stage Design at the Institute for Media Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2004, and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, in 2002.

Dr. Sandra Manninger is an architect, researcher, and educator. Born and educated in Austria, she co-founded SPAN Architecture with Matias del Campo in 2003. Her award-winning projects have been published and exhibited internationally, including at La Biennale di Venezia, MAK, and Autodesk Pier 1, and have been included in the permanent collections of the FRAC, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, and the Albertina in Vienna. Sandra Manninger has taught internationally at the TU Vienna, University for Applied Arts, DIA Bauhaus in Dessau, UPenn, Tongji and Tsinghua Universities, the University of Michigan, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Architecture. Currently, she serves as Associate Professor at the architecture department of NYIT.

Matias del Campo is an architect, designer, and theorist, currently serving as director of the MS ACT program (Architecture, Computational Technology) and as associate professor at New York Institute of Technology. He co-founded SPAN in Vienna in 2003 with Sandra Manninger, establishing a practice renowned for its integration of contemporary technologies in architectural production. SPAN's award-winning designs are shaped by the intersection of computational methodologies and philosophical interrogations, a conceptual framework they describe as "design ecology." del Campo's innovative contributions have been recognized through prestigious awards, including the Accelerate@CERN fellowship and the AIA Studio Prize. His pioneering work in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in architecture design has yielded multiple accolades, including the ACADIA Innovative Research Award of Excellence. His work is part of the permanent collections of notable institutions such as the FRAC Orleans, the MAK in Vienna, the Luciano Benetton Collection in Treviso, the Pinakothek Munich, the Albertina, and multiple private collections. He has authored several books on AI and architecture such as "Neural Architecture" (ORO), "Diffusions" (Wiley), "Machine Hallucinations" (Wiley) and "Artificial Intelligence and Architecture" (Wiley).

Nine Budde finished her MFA for public art and new artistic strategies at Bauhaus University Weimar and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Since the end of the 90’s she produces social- and site-specific photographies, videos, performances and installations. The artist won numerous resdincies and art prices, such as MAK-Schindler Residency in Los Angeles and Villa Romana Price in Florence. Her work is nationally and internationally shown.

Nine Budde lives and works in Berlin.