Julia Wieger works in art and architecture. Her work is concerned with queer feminist productions of space, archive politics, and history writing, as well as collective approaches to research, knowledge production, and design. From 2015-18, she worked as senior scientist at the Institute for Art and Architecture and from 2014-16 for the transdisciplinary research project “Spaces of Commoning” at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 2012-17 she was a member of the board of VBKÖ – an artist run queer feminist art space in Vienna. Together with Nina Höchtl, she founded the working group Secretariat for Ghosts Archival Politics and Gaps in 2012.

Anton Savov is an architect and postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich. His work focuses on developing architectural machine intelligence to enhance our creative capacities for designing and constructing the built environment.

Kostis Velonis lives and works in Athens/Greece. He holds an MRes in humanities and cultural studies from the London Consortium (Birkbeck College, ICA, AA), London/Great Britain. Furthermore, he studied Esthétiques et Technologies des Arts at Université Paris 8 (D.E.A), Paris/France, and earned his PhD from the Department of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens.

Mechthild Weber studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She received the MAK-Schindler scholarship and gained experience in stage design and architectural practices. Since 2010 she has been working with Querkraft architects in Vienna on a wide range of projects in multiple scales throughout all planning phases. She was part of the research team at Conceptual Joining.

Moritz Heimrath studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2010. He is currently a partner at Bollinger+Grohmann ZT GmbH and part of the developer team of Karamba3D, an inter- active parametric finite-element plugin for Grasshopper.

Lukas Allner is an architect and researcher. Since 2020, he has been co-directing Circular Strategies together with Prof. Karin Raith, a field in teaching and research at the IoA that addresses the future-oriented use of resources in architecture.

Christoph Eppacher is a London based architect and researcher and principal of CEPP studio. His work combines an interest in digital design techniques together with event driven architectural scenarios. He was working for architectural practices in Berlin, Paris and London, including J Mayer H, Francois Roche – R&Sie(n), Plasma Studio and Zaha Hadid Architects. For many years he collaborated with Architect Alex Graef on various international competitions.

Shima Roshanzamir is an architect and urban designer whose work spans both academic and professional spheres. She earned her Ph.D. in architecture in 2015, focusing on "subjective deterritorialization," under the mentorship of Wolf Prix and Sanford Kwinter. She also holds a Master of Urban Design from the Applied Art University of Vienna and a Master of Sustainable Architecture from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST).

Morteza Farhdian Dehkordi holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Art University of Isfahan and a master’s degree in urban design from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, which he completed with distinction. He has received several awards, including a selected project at the Architecture Biennale in Beijing in 2010 and the MAK-Schindler Scholarship in 2011.

Jae Rhim Lee is a visual artist, designer, and researcher whose work proposes unorthodox relationships between the mind/body/self and the built and natural environment. Jae Rhim’s work follows a research methodology which includes self-examination, transdisciplinary immersion and dialogue, and diy design, ultimately taking the form of living units, furniture, wearables, recycling systems, and personal and social interventions.

Florian Schafschetzy is a registered architect and a member of IG Architektur. He studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and completed his graduate studies under the tutelage of Wolf D. Prix. He has worked as project architect and design architect for Franz Sam, Vienna. He also worked for Coop Himmelb(l)au, Delugan & Meissl AA and Wolfgang Tschapeller. He was awarded a merit prize for Experimental Tendencies in 2004 and works he collaborated on were exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennial 2006. Florian was selected for the MAK Los Angeles Schindler residency 2011. In 2018, Florian co-founded Magazin, an exhibition space for contemporary architecture in Vienna.

Gregor Holzinger, born 1981, lives and works in Vienna, Austria; graduated in Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, studied Scenic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and was visiting student within a collaboration project at Institute of Applied Theatre Studies, University of Gießen, Germany. Several international cooperations, e. g. with Peter Sellars (Los Angeles), Lebbeus Woods (New York) and Lead Pencil Studio – Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo (Seattle, WA and Portland, OR).

Eva Sommeregger is a Vienna-based architectural researcher employing both arts-based and theoretical methods. Through writing, curating and the development of experimental digital spaces, her practice explores under-examined spatial aspects of media culture, examining entangled power relations and bodily forms of resistance.

Ivan Niedermair was born in 1983 in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy. In 2003, he began his studies in architecture at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, spending semesters in Vienna and at the IUAV in Venice. He has worked in Rome, Graz, and Johannesburg. In 2008, he won First Prize at the Bombay Sapphire Designer Class Competition Austria. His exhibitions include DMY Berlin (2009), the London Design Festival (2008), Galerie Museum Bozen (2008), and Architekturzentrum Wien (2006). From 2010 to 2011, he was awarded the MAK-Schindler Scholarship for the Artists and Architects in Residence Program in Los Angeles.

Adam Vukmanov is an award-winning, creative architect and designer with over 15 years of experience in building construction, interior architecture, and production design. Since 2018, as a core member of Studio Taktonika, his focus has mainly been on developing innovative spaces in the workplace, healthcare, and residential design. After graduating from dieAngewandte, Adam has worked for Span-Arch in Vienna, completing the Austrian pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, and later joined Acme in London, where he realized several large-scale projects in the UK and the Middle East. His interdisciplinary approach to design, focus on high-end craft, and advanced fabrication brought him into the set design and concept art environment in the film and advertising industry, where he was nominated for the 18th USA Art Directors Guild Award in the category of production design. His clients include Renault, Nissan, Genesis, and PlayStation, among others. Adam has taught architectural design at UMPRUM and ARCHIP in Prague, Lund School of Architecture, CITA Kadk in Copenhagen, and Architectural Association Global School in Paris. His research work and the work with his students have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, as well as many galleries and conferences across Europe and the US. Influenced by his stay at the MAK Schindler Artist and Architect in residency program, Adam pursued a passion for photography and works as a professional photographer specializing in landscape photography, fashion, and architecture. Adam is currently based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Julia Koerner is an award-winning Austrian designer working at the convergence of architecture, product and fashion design, specialized in 3D-printing. She is the founder of JK Design GmbH /JK3D and a professor at UCLA. Her recent collaborations include 3D-Printed Haute Couture and costumes for Marvel’s Hollywood blockbuster ‘Black Panther’ earning two Academy Awards.

Markus Zeber (*1979 in Carinthia, Austria) completed his studies of architecture at the Technical University Vienna in 2005 and then obtained his diploma in Sculpture at the University of Applied Art in 2011. He then spent time abroad, had exhibitions in Los Angeles (MAK-Schindler Scholarship), in Paris and Vienna, as well as teaching assignments at the Technical University of Vienna, the Art University of Linz and the University of Applied Art.

A practicing architect in Bombay, India, Zameer Basrai has been an associate to TheBusride Design studio since 2006 working on a wide range of institutional, commercial and residential projects. He has also been pursuing his diverse interests in research ranging from contemporary marginalization and conservation practices to domesticity and urban living. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture degree from CEPT, Ahmedabad, India in 2005 and graduated with a SMArchS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 2009.

Edmund Kwong is a Project Architect at Morphosis Architects with broad experience in the design and construction of a range of project types including academic, cultural, high-rise, and commercial buildings.

Through his studies in both Architecture and Fine Arts, Tobias Klauser (1981) has always worked at the intersection of the two fields. Since 2013, together with Carlo Lienhard, he has run a design studio in Zurich. With their own label, Maybesoon, they explore the possibilities of local and sustainable production, creating sculptural works that are also marketable.