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.

Sonja Vordermaier, born 1973 in Munich, lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. In 2002 she got her master in fine arts at the Art Academy in Hamburg and had numerous shows in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. She won prizes and scholarships, like the Hector Art-prize in Mannheim, the MAK Schindler Scholarship in Los Angeles, or the Hamburg Grant.

Andreas Fogarasi uses forms of display that are reminiscent of minimalism and conceptual art to explore questions of space and representation. Being situated between a documentary and a sculptural practice, his works critically analyse the aesthetisation and economisation of urban space and the role of architecture and the cultural field in contemporary society. Incorporating video, sculpture and installation in wide-sweeping discursive webs, Fogarasi confronts the viewer with fault lines in history, image politics and cultural identities.

Wulf Walter Böttger (Dipl. Ing. Architektur) holds the position of Visiting-Professor in Architecture at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) teaching the collaborative Master's program at the department of architecture at the Chinese German Academy of Arts (CDK) in Hangzhou, China. He also teaches interdisciplinary architecture and fine arts classes in the Studium Generale section of UdK Berlin. He has given lectures at the University of California Los Angeles and Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna. Before establishing his own architecture practice in Berlin he worked for internationally renowned architects such as Peter Eisenman in New York and Jun Aoki in Tokyo. With his research project on the relationship between architecture and the human body he received the Rudolph M. Schindler research and residency award from the MAK center for art and architecture in Los Angeles and the Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien. As a curator focused on architecture and urbanism he contributed to major exhibitions at Akademie der Künste Berlin, KW-Kunstwerke Berlin and several galleries in Berlin and LA.

Alfredo Barsuglia, born 1980 in Graz, lives and works in Vienna / Austria. Barsuglia has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Monsignor Otto Mauer Prize (2019), the State Scholarship for Fine Arts (2017), the Art Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna (2015), the Theodor Körner Prize (2013), the Art Promotion Prize of the City of Graz (2007), and the MAK-Schindler Fellowship in Los Angeles (2006).

David Moises studied at the University for Arts and Industrial Design 1995-2002, Linz, Austria and the Humboldt University, Berlin Germany 1998-1999.

Moises’s has exhibited widely in Austria, Germany, Italy and elsewhere including the Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien,Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle, Wien (2004), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Schindler House, Los Angeles (2006), Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2008), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2015).

He lives and works in Vienna.

Elena Kovylina studied at the Academy of Arts in Moscow, at the Art and Media School in Zurich, and at the Moscow Center of Modern Art. Since 1999, she has been a member of the Russian Professional Union of Artists and Graphic Designers.

Kovylina has participated in numerous exhibitions and performances, including The Babel Tower (performance, Art Museum, Samara, 2001), Partnership of Art (APT, Moscow, 2001), The Moment of Glory (Et setera Theater, Moscow, 2000), Freedom for the Butterflies (Contemporary Art Institute, Moscow, 2000), and Social Machine – Money (Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, 1999). She has also been published in numerous Russian and international art magazines.

Robert Huebser was born in Ingolstadt, Germany. He is an architect who studied at the Technical University of Munich and the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin.

Benjamin Haupt was born in Eichstätt, Germany. He is an architect who studied at BTU Cottbus and the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin.

David Emmer leads the design department at Sweco Architects Germany. He and his team are focusing on the development of sustainable solutions for every project and the promotion of digital design tools in the creative process.

Before joining Sweco Architects, David gained over 15 years of professional experience in Asia and the Middle East, where he oversaw the design and delivery of several award-winning projects.

From 1991–1996 Hans Schabus studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, since 2014 he is professor of sculpture and spatial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Hans Schabus’ works are immediately related to a spatial thinking and experience; his sculptures and interventions often refer directly to the artist’s mental and physical surroundings, especially to his atelier and the material to be processed there. The place where art is created is investigated in terms of its analogy potential with respect to life. The works can be read as a meditation on the creative act, its aspirations, but also on the difference from everyday activity. The film works that deal with traveling, speed and non-goal-oriented movement refer to the significance of an interdisciplinary reflection for art.

Milica Topalovic is Associate Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the ETH Department of Architecture. From 2011-15 she held research professorship at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, studying the relationship between a city and its hinterland. In 2006 she joined the ETH as head of research at Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute and the professorial chairs held by Diener and Meili, where she taught research studios on cities and on territories such as Hong Kong and the Nile Valley. Milica graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and received Master’s degree from the Dutch Berlage Institute for her thesis on Belgrade’s post-socialist urban transformation. Since 2000, she worked on projects in different spatial scales and visual media. With Studio Basel she authored and edited Belgrade. Formal / Informal: A Research on Urban Transformation, and The Inevitable Specificity of Cities. She contributes essays on urbanism, architecture and art to various magazines and publications.

Bas Princen trained as an industrial designer and architect before earning an international reputation for his photographic work, particularly for reflecting the transformation of urban space. In his projects, he focuses on the frictions between designed surfaces of cities and a “natural” landscape.

Christoph Kaltenbrunner has been head of the Department of Design, Architecture and Environment (DAE) of the Institute of Art Sciences and Art Education at University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2014. He studied mechanical engineering, techni- cal physics, product design and architecture. He received several scholarships to study in Japan, England and the USA. In 1994 he co-founded the internationally known award-winning architecture studio propeller z in Vienna, which he left in 2013 to fully concentrate on research and education. Besides numerous teaching activities including exhibitions, workshops and lecture events, he is responsible for the development of the Bachelor- Master curriculum for the teaching professions at the Angewandte. He was project leader of Conceptual Joining.