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.

Alexander Schmoeger is an architect and part of the firm schmidt-colinet • schmoeger, which works chiefly on residential and school buildings as well as exhibitions and research projects. He regularly taught at the Vienna University of Technology. Together with Lisa Schmidt-Colinet and Florian Zeyfang he develops projects, exhibitions and films on architecture in Cuba. They published the reader Pabellón Cuba (2008) with Eugenio Valdés Figueroa.

Florian Zeyfang is an artist, filmmaker and author. His recent projects have addressed architecture, film/archive and permanence of images. He has taught as a professor at the art academies in Umeå and Aarhus and publishes studies on experimental film, technology and art. Together with Lisa Schmidt-Colinet and Alexander Schmoeger, Zeyfang develops projects, exhibitions and films on architecture in Cuba. They published the reader Pabellón Cuba (2008) with Eugenio Valdés Figueroa.

Lisa Schmidt-Colinet is an architect and part of the firm schmidt-colinet • schmoeger, which works chiefly on residential and school buildings as well as exhibitions and research projects. She is deputy director of the Institute of Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Together with Alexander Schmoeger and Florian Zeyfang she develops projects, exhibitions and films on architecture in Cuba. They published the reader Pabellón Cuba (2008) with Eugenio Valdés Figueroa.

Siggi Hofer was born on January 21, 1970, in Brunico, Italy. He studied at the Master School of Painting under Prof. Gerhart Lojen in Graz and at the University of Applied Arts under Prof. Mario Terzic in Vienna. He lives and works in Vienna.

Susanne Jirkuff is a visual artist and filmmaker. In her works she depicts urban spaces and the stories and narratives that are embedded in them. The(re)presentation of space via media channels is footage for drawings and is further developed to semi-fictional animated films and installations.