Nicolas Février studied architecture at the School of Architecture Luminy in Marseille, followed by the School of Architecture Paris-La Seine, Atelier Cornet, from 1996 to 1998. In 1998–1999, he attended the Technical University of Delft, studying under Déborah Hauptmann, where he developed the project Landscape + E together with Hotao Chow. From 1999 to 2000, he continued his studies at the School of Architecture Paris-La Seine under Professor Françoise Fromonot, completing the project Paris IntraMuros in collaboration with Roland Oberhofer.

Christoph a. Kumpusch is a New York City-based architect and the Head of Forward-slash ( / ) Architektur and the Co-Founder of the Mutating-Cities Institute. He teaches design studios and seminars in the Architecture and Real Estate programs at Columbia GSAPP, where he also directs the Extraction Laboratory.

Pia Rönicke was born in 1974 in Roskilde, Denmark. Her works are heterogeneous collages that combine music, photos, comics, magazine clippings, and drawings into investigations of urban planning and Modernist conceptions of the city. Her films are part of an ongoing investigation of the urban landscape and the relationship between architectural utopias and reality. Although her works formally revisit Dadaistic experiments and the critical montage practices of the 1960s and 1970s, they raise contemporary questions about the politics and conventions of familiar environments and their effects on everyday life. She is represented by gb agency in Paris and Andersen’s Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. Pia Rönicke lives and works in Los Angeles and Copenhagen.

Zlatan Vukosavljevic is a sculptor and installation artist. Born in Yugoslavia, he studied architecture in Belgrade. In 2004, he collaborated with Los Angeles artist Jason Rhoades at the Kunsthause, Graz in Austria. Along with artists Franz West and Heimo Zobernig, Vukosavljevic created the installation Studiolo during the Venice Biennale in 2005. Studiolo was part of the New Festival at Georges Pompidou Center in Paris 2009, and will be part of the New Decor exhibition, curated by Ralph Rugoff, at Hayward Gallery London in June 2010.

Una Szeemann’s installations follow material traces and transferences of invisible phenomena. An approach and exploration through the possibilities of parallel thinking and an investigation of unconscious processes.

Solo and group exhibitions include MAN Museo Nuoro, Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunsthalle Winterthur, MASI Lugano, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Belvedere 21 Vienna, Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius and Kunsthalle Vienna. She also exhibited at Manifesta 11, the 5th Busan Biennale in Korea, 3rd Contour Biennale in Belgium, 9th Lyon Biennale and 52nd Venice Biennale.

Antonietta Putzu was born in Zurich and studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She was a researcher and lecturer at the Research Unit of Housing and Design at TU Wien. Currently she investigates on the interior as a space of self-representation and social visibility. In her work she contrasts post-war bourgeois ideals of domesticity in Italian design media with everyday images from marginalized groups. Through this visual dialogue, she explores how domestic space reflects and reinforces power, class, and cultural identity. She is also co-editor and author of the publication The Last Grand Tour: Contemporary Phenomena and Strategies of Living in Italy, published by Park Books in 2023.

Thomas Gombotz was born in 1973 in Austria. In 1997, he studied under Nasrine Seraji at the Master School of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

​​Bernhard Sommer teaches and researches in the field of Energy Design. He established the Energy Design department at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, in cooperation with guest Professor Brian Cody. Since 2016, Bernhard Sommer is visiting Professor for Energy Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts.2013, he was guest Professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck.Before, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Building Construction and Design (Prof. Richter) at the University of Technology in Vienna and a researcher and project manager at Hyperbody (Prof. Oosterhuis), University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands.He is co-founder and principal of EXIKON architecture and energy.He was awarded the Arch -Prize 2000, MAK-Schindlerstipendium in 2002 and the prize for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture 2006.

Karina Nimmerfall is a visual artist whose work interweaves sculptural installation and language with various forms of photographic, computer-generated or moving imagery. Addressing the historicity of buildings and urban structures, as well as their representations within mediated imagery and the archive, she often confronts sections of a historical past with our present, blending documentary and speculative strategies that create various real and imagined time-space constellations. In this process, however, the imaginary is understood not as a contrast to reality, but as something that emerges in the interstices and becomes part of our lived world.

Karina Nimmerfall studied Visual Arts at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg and Art History at the University of Vienna. She is a recipient of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach-Foundation Contemporary German Photography Grant (2018), and was awarded several fellowships such as at the Tokyo and London Studio of the Federal Ministry for Arts Austria (2023 and 2015), the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2007) and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (2002), amongst others. She has exhibited internationally including at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Camera Austria, Graz; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Kunsthaus Graz; Kunsthalle Mainz; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; Kasseler Kunstverein; AR/GE Kunst, Bolzano; Göteborgs Konsthall and Landesgalerie Linz (now Francisco Carolinum). Her work was also included in the Bucharest Biennale 3 (2008) and the 8th Havana Biennial (2003).

Lorenzo Rocha Cito is a Mexican architect whose work focuses on the experimental use of space. He incorporates interdisciplinary practices into his work, allowing him to explore the impact of design and intervention in the spaces he produces. The reactivation of spaces through social use is a recurring theme in the work of architects of his generation. Since 2005, he has been the director of [ESPACIO] contemporary art magazine and a regular contributor to Milenio newspaper. In 2012, he founded Oficina de Arte, an artist residency in downtown Mexico City. He currently teaches at the Architecture Faculty of UNAM.

Luisa Lambri is an artist working with photography and film. She was born in Como, Italy, in 1969. Lambri currently lives in Milan. Her work has been exhibited at the Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (2018), the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017), the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art (2010) and the Venice Biennial (Architecture 2010 and 2004; Art 2003 and 1999).

Kobe Matthys (23 November 1970, Ghent – 18 May 2023, Tollembeek) was an artist. In 1992, he founded Agency, an agency for quasi-creations. He conducted long-term research on the practices of reappropriation and the public domain. He lived in Brussels.

Kobe Matthys regularly contributed to a community farming project in Brussels and was one of the driving forces behind State of the Arts, an action group that opposed culture cuts in Belgium in 2019. In 2021, Agency received the Flanders’ Ultima Awards for Visual Arts.

Richard Hoeck is a Vienna-based multimedia artist working in installation, sculpture, performance, photography and video. Hoeck's work explores worldviews, social conditions, and the possibilities of perception. In recent years, Hoeck has increasingly devoted his attention to the changing relationship between haptics and optics, between body and image. Together with his long-time collaborator John Miller, they use the inherent materiality of mannequins to explore bodies, surfaces, and transformation as displacement grows due to more of our life happening in the digital space.

Mauricio Duk is an architect, having graduated from Universidad La Salle in 1995. He holds distinctions in local and international competitions, including representing Mexico at the Abacus and City Workshop in Madrid, Spain, in 1998. He has collaborated with renowned architects in Mexico, such as Alberto Kalach and Becker Arquitectos. He combines architectural practice, both in Mexico and the United States, with theoretical discussion through lectures, essays, and installations.

José Pérez de Lama Halcón Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture and professor of Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla. In 2009 he founded the FabLab Sevilla at the universidad de la ciudad andaluza, which remains being the director. For ten years, with Sergio Moreno and Pablo de Soto, he participated in the hackitectura.net group, undertaking projects in which free technologies, social networks and urban territories were related. His works have been exhibited, among other places, in the ZKM in Karlsruhe and LABoral of Gijón. His latest book is titled Yes, We Are Open! Fabricación digital, tecnologías y cultura libres( (RUBooks, 2014).

Michael Wildmann was born in 1966 in Linz. He received his high school diploma in 1987 from HTBLA (Higher Technical University of Applied Sciences) for Structural Engineering, Goethestrasse, Linz. From 1987 to 1998, he studied architecture at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) and McGill University in Montreal. In 1998, he received his diploma from TU Wien under Prof. Alsop. In 2001, he was awarded the Schindler Fellowship through the MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program in Los Angeles. Since 2004, he has been a state-certified and sworn civil engineer and a board member of IG-Architektur.

Florian Pumhösl was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1971. From 1989 to 1997 he attended the Höhere Grafische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna, and from 1989 to 1996 he studied graphic design at the University (then College) of Applied Arts in Vienna, from which he graduated with a diploma. In 2000, he was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize. In 2002 he was awarded the CENTRAL Prize of the Cologne Art Association and in 2006 the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts. In 2012, he received the Teresa Bulgarini Prize.

Dorit Margreiter Choy (*1967, Vienna) is a photographer, video and installation artist. From 1988 to 1992 she studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Barbara Kaucky is an Austrian architect based in London. She studied architecture in Vienna and Berlin before co-founding the practice Erect Architecture (formerly Root and Erect) in 2003 with Susanne Tutsch. The studio works across scales with a focus on community projects, public space, and education.