Thomas Paltiel graduated with a Masters of Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. He worked independently before founding studio nāv in 2013. In April 2018 he assisted Anne Holtrop for a short period at his studio in Bahrain. He teaches at the Department of Design, Interior Architecture & Visual Communication at Konstfack, and intermittently at at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.

Carl Fransson (*Stockholm, 1984) graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Belleville and Edinburgh College of Art. He has also undertaken an MA in Aesthetic Theory at The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Before founding studio nāv in 2013, he worked with Charles Pictet Architects, Switzerland and as an independent artist with exhibitions in UK, Sweden and Germany. He teaches at KTH School of Architecture and intermittently at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.

Julia Hohenwarter’s installations, displays, and sculptures have been exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthalle Vienna, MAK Schindler House Los Angeles, Austrian Cultural Forum Tokio, The Tip Bangkok, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, 21er Haus Belvedere and Arcadia Missa London.

Julian Marcel Feritsch (born in Heidelberg, Germany) lives and works in Vienna. He graduated from the University of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied at the textual sculpture department with Heimo Zobernig.

Daniel Springer is an architect, educator, and artistic researcher based in Berlin. His studio practice is called Fragmentographic Studio, through which he pursues a transdisciplinary and pluriversal approach to designing, making, and thinking due to rapidly changing working environments. In his spatial and artistic practice, he explores the terrain of architecture and the arts through processual aesthetics, ad hoc appropriations of the pre-existing, and conceptual interpretations of the meaning of sculpture. Following his studies in architecture at the University of Technology Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart, he has collaborated on numerous projects with a variety of architecture and artist studios, as well as cultural institutions in Germany and abroad. He has received various scholarships for residency and research (e.g., MAK Schindler Scholarship, Bauhaus LAB Fellowship, DAAD), and his work has been published in several magazines (e.g., Bauhaus Taschenbuch, Horizonte Magazine, PLAT Journal). In addition to his professional experience, he has also worked as an assistant professor at two architecture faculties in Germany, the Leibniz University Hannover and the HafenCity University Hamburg, where he taught at the intersection of architecture and the arts. In 2025, he completed his Ph.D. in architecture and the arts, contributing to the field with a study on the aesthetics and epistemologies of fragments in artistic research.

Arnold Estefan and Anca Benera have collaborated as an artist duo since 2012, working between Vienna and Bucharest. Their practice spans multimedia installation, sculpture, and drawing, exploring how the military imagination shapes landscapes, climates, and communities, including its ties to extractive industries.

Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan have collaborated as an artist duo since 2012, working between Vienna and Bucharest. Their practice spans multimedia installation, sculpture, and drawing, exploring how the military imagination shapes landscapes, climates, and communities, including its ties to extractive industries.

Robert Schwarz incorporates a background including computer music, sound studies and architecture into his installations, live performances and recorded music. With over 20 years of working in the field of sound, the Vienna-based sound artist approaches acoustic phenomena with an ear attuned to the inner systems of his subject, uncovering details normally hidden from perception. Crafting abstract structures through the interplay of field recordings and sound synthesis, his compositions suggest profound, dissociative states of listening and encourage a critical examination of our established listening practices.

Andreas Bauer (born 16 June 1981, Böblingen) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart and the Stuttgart Academy for Communication Design and Multimedia. He has exhibited his work throughout Europe and the United States. His work is in the collections of the Beth deWoody Collection, New York, as well as private collections in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and the United States. Bauer has received the prestigious Karin-Abt-Straubinger Stiftung award.

Lukas Stopczynski is an architect and artist based in Stuttgart and Berlin. He was trained at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He has exhibited at venues such as Kronika Center for Contemporary Art (Bytom), ASK 2016 (Katowice), and Photosummer Stuttgart.

Evelyn Temmel works in the fields of architecture and urban design. She studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology and the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Vallès in Barcelona. She has gained broad professional experience in several architecture offices in Graz and Vienna, as well as at OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen in Brussels.

Bernhard Luthringshausen works in the fields of architecture and urbanism.

As a MAK-Schindler Fellow, he collaborated with Evelyn Temmel on the project “Artifacts of a Parallel Ecology,” which examined the systematics of private backyards in Los Angeles. Artifacts of a Parallel Ecology, in which they analysed the urban morphology and domestic practices of backyard spaces.

In 2021, he founded the office BELT Architektur Buero together with Evelyn Temmel in Vienna. Their work range from urban planning and architectural design to interventions in and with existing structures. Their theoretical focus lies in the interplay between social transformation and the influence of socio-political frameworks on the built environment, as well as the evolution and adaptation of architectural typologies.

Josef Schroeck graduated from University of Innsbruck in 2010. He received a Master in Architecture with Disctinction. His Diploma Project “The Darwinian Monastery” was made under the supervision of Prof. Colin Fournier, UCL the Bartlett. He was awarded the “START Scholarship” (2013 with Elisabeth Haid) and the “Tische Scholarship” (2011) by the Austrian Ministry for Culture and Education, shortlisted for the Austrian Architectural “outstanding Artist Award 2012.” His work was exhibited at numerous locations like AFO Upper Austria and HDA Graz.

Elisabeth Haid studied art history and architecture in Innsbruck and Madrid. She works on architectural, curatorial and interdisciplinary artistic projects and is a research associate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her work combines theoretical and practical approaches, exploring speculative ideas and tackling socio-cultural and environmental issues in the realms of architecture, urban studies and art. She has participated in exhibitions internationally and published various texts regarding architecture, contemporary art and urban studies. Her work has been recognized by multiple awards and scholarships. In 2015 she co-founded Kunstverein EXTRA.

Peter Jellitsch was born in Austria in 1982. After completing an apprenticeship as carpenter, he studied art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, from where he graduated in 2010. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and can be found in collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten (MMKK), the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, and the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Pradeep Devadass is an architect and roboteer. He specialises in bridging the gap between architectural design and robotic construction. He is a Lecturer in Design for Manufacture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he has played a proactive role in advancing research in robotics and automation within architecture and construction. He also leads the B-made (Bartlett Manufacturing and Design Exchange) Robotics Lab overseeing strategic robotic infrastructure, teaching innovative robotic workflows in architecture, and driving collaborative research in advanced automation. He has led numerous successful research projects as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I), securing funding from various competitive grants. His work has focused on sustainable materials and innovative robotic processes, including autonomous manufacturing of low-carbon materials like earth, stone, and timber.

Sushant Verma (M.Arch. Em.Tech. – AA London, B.Arch. SSAA New Delhi, MCoA India) is a Design Entrepreneur, Architect, Computational Designer & Educator, currently leading rat[LAB] Studio (Research in Architecture and Technology) that investigates intersections of design, art & technology through architecture, interior design and art installations.

Michael Hieslmair, born 1974 in Linz lives and works in Vienna. He studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology and Delft University of Technology. He was fellow at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck and architect in residence at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles, taught at various universities, e.g. University for Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle an der Saale, Innsbruck University, Graz and Vienna Technical University. He collaborated on the research project "Crossing Munich, Places, Representations and Debates on Migration in Munich" (with Sabine Hess) which culminated in an exhibition at the Rathausgalerie. From 2014 to 2016 he was research associate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and co-head of research of "Stop and Go: Nodes of Transformation and Transition" investigating the production of space along pan-European Traffic Corridors in East Europe.

Johannes Zotter (*1980) is an Austrian-born architect and designer. Johannes Zotter studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. During his studies he took part at several design/building projects, such as the "Orangefarm" project in Johannesburg which received the Austrian Building Award in 2006. After graduation he worked for various architects in Austria and Switzerland.

Deniz Sözen is of mixed Turkish-Austrian heritage and grew up between Turkey and Austria. She studied Fine Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at Goldsmiths, University of London and completed her practice-based PhD at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), the University of Westminster (2019).