Hank Schmidt in der Beek was born in 1978 in Munich, Germany. He lives and works as an artist in Berlin, where he has been based since 2006.

From 1999 to 2005, he studied Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main and, in 2003–2004, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium.

He has received several awards and scholarships, including the Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles (2008–2009), the Szpilman Award for Ephemeral Art (2009), and the Villa Waldberta Scholarship in Feldafing (2016).

Johann Neumeister, born on August 16, 1976, in Vienna, studied Sculpture and New Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Electroacoustic Composition and Computer Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts.

Andreas Quednau is a German architect, educator, and founding partner of SMAQ, a studio for architecture, urbanism, and research based in Berlin, which he co-directs with Sabine Müller.

SMAQ is a collaborative studio that operates in the field of architecture, urbanism and research. SMAQ was founded by the architects Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau and is based in Berlin and Rotterdam. Both partners hold a Master’s Degree from Columbia

Sabine Müller is a founding partner of SMAQ, a studio for architecture, urbanism, and research based in Berlin, which she co-directs with Andreas Quednau.

SMAQ is a collaborative studio that operates in the field of architecture, urbanism and research.

Theresa Krenn studied Architecture at the TU Wien and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna between 1999 and 2005 (Diploma: Studio Eyal Weizman). She was a founding member of the architecture firm studio uek and currently works at the architecture firm studio ederkrenn in Vienna. Her team projects have won numerous awards: her winning entry for the architectural design competition Europan 9, Oase 22 [Oasis 22], was realized in 2013, and in 2015, was both nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award and won the Bauwelt Award „First Works“. The residential construction project Kohlenrutsche [Coal chutes], on the site of the Viennese Nordbahnhof [Northern Train Station], is a communal living project conceived in dialogue with residents and completed in 2019. Together with Benni Eder, Krenn received numerous scholarships and grants, such as the Artists and Architects in Residence Program scholarship of the MAK Center in Los Angeles in 2007, the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Scholarship in 2007 and, together with Lorenzo De Chiffre and Benni Eder, the Hans Hollein Scholarship in 2019. Between 2010 and 2014, Theresa Krenn taught Urban Design at the TU Wien, and she has worked as a University Assistant in the Research Unit Building Construction and Design there since 2014.

Between 1996 and 2004, Bernhard Eder studied at the TU Innsbruck, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Prof. Nasrine Seraji, and the PUC Santiago de Chile. From 2009 to 2019, he worked as an assistant in the Research Department of Urban Planning and Design at the TU Vienna. Since 2019, he has held various teaching positions at the Institute of Urban Planning at the TU Vienna.