Celedon, Alejandra: - Alejandra Celedon is an architect who graduated from the Universidad de
Chile in 2003. She earned her MSc Advanced Architectural Studies from The
Bartlett, University College London in 2007 and her PhD from the Architectural
Association, London, in 2014. She was the curator of the Stadium, Chilean
Pavilion, at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) and the co-curator of
The Plot: Miracle and Mirage at the 3rd Chicago Architecture
Biennial (2019). Her recent publications include the book Stadium: A Building That Renders the
Image of a City (Park
Books, 2018) and the essays "The Chilean School: A Room for Upbringing and Uprising"
(AA Files, 2020) and "The Plot: Miracle and
Mirage" (Revista 180, 2021). She is the head master of
the architecture program at the School of Architecture, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile.
Chahin Werneck, Clara: - Clara Chahin Werneck is a twenty-five-year-old architect and urban planner
with a degree from the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de
São Paulo (FAU-USP) in 2020, having done an exchange program at Accademia di
Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland. During her studies, she received a scholarship
to conduct undergraduate research on the topics of spatial perception and
phenomenology in architecture. Chahin Werneck has worked in architectural firms
in São Paulo such as Studio MK27 and Nitsche Arquitetos. She is interested in
exploring the combination of practice and theoretical knowledge by engaging in
projects on different scales and contexts, with a respectful consideration for the
use of resources and materiality.
Efrussi, Tatiana: - Tatiana Efrussi is an artist and art historian currently based in
Paris. In 2011, she graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a
paper on Soviet connections to the Bauhaus. On the basis of this research, in
2012 she curated the exhibition Bauhaus
in Moscow at
Moscow's VKhUTEMAS gallery and graduated with a PhD from Kassel Universiät with
a dissertation entitled "Hannes Meyer: A Soviet Architect." Her artistic
work combines archival research and research into the archaeology of spaces
with images and fiction. Recent exhibitions include Escapism: Training Program (Fabrika CCA, Moscow) and Eccentric Values after Eisenstein (with Elena Vogman, Diaphanes
space, Berlin, 2018). An interest in the contemporary conditions of cultural
labor inspired her to cofound the collective Flying Cooperation in 2015.
Esnaola Cano, Maria: - Maria Esnaola Cano is an architectural designer and educator based in Los
Angeles. She is a registered architect in Spain and a Fulbright Scholar holding
a Master's of Science in Advanced Architectural Design and a Master's of Science
in Advanced Architectural Research from the Columbia Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. Through her diverse
affiliations with Los Angeles city institutions and as a member of the board of
directors of the LAForum for Architecture and Urban Design, she seeks to engage
in current debates over the future of urban landscapes by studying the city as
a physical phenomenon and as a cultural artifact. Esnaola Cano is a professor
at the USC School of Architecture and is currently a visiting professor at ETH
Zurich.
Frehse, Fraya: - Fraya Frehse is a professor of sociology at the Universidade de São
Paulo, where she coordinates the Center for Studies and Research on the
Sociology of Space and Time (NEPSESTE) and acts as a lead partner of the Global
Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS, Technische
Universität Berlin). She is an alumna of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
a research fellow of the Brazilian National Research Council, and life member
of Clare Hall College (University of Cambridge). Her research focuses mainly on
urban theory; space, everyday life, and history; space and time in sociology;
body, public space, and urbanization (in Brazil); urban mobility; urban
inequality/poverty; cultural heritage; urban visual culture; and sociology of
everyday knowledge.
Froimovich, Jocelyn: - Jocelyn Froimovich is an architect licensed in Chile and New York State.
As an independent practitioner, her work ranges in focus and scale, from
collaborative residential projects in New York State to installations such as
MoMA's Young Architects Program COSMO exhibited in 2015 at MoMA PS1.
Current collaborative projects include the new Biblioteca Lorenteggio in Milan
to be built by 2022. She has taught at Columbia University, the Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Chile, at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and the
University of Liverpool. Froimovich's approach has a strong collaborative emphasis,
believing that successful designs depend upon the close integration of multiple
disciplines and a thorough understanding of the various aspects that constitute
the built environment.
Lepik, Andres: - Andres Lepik is the director of the Architekturmuseum at the Technische
Universität München (TU Munich) and a professor of history of architecture and
curatorial practice at the TU Munich. He studied art history, graduating with a
PhD on Architectural Models in the Renaissance. From 1994 he worked as a curator
at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, where he presented the exhibitions Renzo Piano (2000) and Content: Rem Koolhaas and AMO/OMA (2003). From 2007 to 2011 he was a
curator in the Architecture and Design Department at The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, presenting the exhibition Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement (2010). In 2011-12, Lepik was a Loeb
Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Maceda, Aya: - Aya Maceda, a Filipino-Australian architect and professor at Parsons
School of Design in New York, cofounded ALAO, a practice that bridges design,
research, and social advocacy. A registered architect in Connecticut and
Australia, she has worked with prestigious practices in Australia, Singapore,
and the Philippines on the design of award-winning residential and
institutional projects that enhance the public domain. Maceda received her M.S.
Advanced Architectural Design and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). A mother and a board
member of Westbeth Artists Housing and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, she is
dedicated to her advocacies. She has published her writing and built work in
publications globally.
Madden, David: - David Madden is an associate professor of sociology and the director
of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. Madden holds a PhD
from Columbia University. He researches housing, urban theory, and urban
politics, with a particular focus on New York City and London. He is the author,
with Peter Marcuse, of In
Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis, which has been translated into six languages. His
writing has also appeared in The
Washington Post, The Guardian, and Jacobin. He can be found on Twitter as @davidjmadden.
Mitchell, Don: - Don Mitchell is a professor of human geography in the Department of
Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala Universitet and Distinguished
Professor of Geography Emeritus at Syracuse University. His work focuses on
historical and contemporary struggles over the urban public, homelessness, the
relationship between capital and labor in making the geographical landscape,
and historical-geographical materialist theories of culture. His most recent
book is Mean Streets: Homelessness,
Public Space, and the Limits of Capital (2020).
Przybylinski, Stephen: - Stephen Przybylinski is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of
Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala Universitet. His current research
concerns justice theorizing in geography. His ongoing research focuses on
property, political rights, houselessness, and the justification for liberal democracy.
Renwick, Trude: - Trude Renwick is a scholar of architecture and urbanism in Thailand
whose research examines the intersection of the built environment,
globalization, and spirituality. Her dissertation is an ethnographic study of
the intersection of commercial and spiritual space in Bangkok. She graduated
from the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD in Architecture and
currently holds a position at Hong Kong University in the Society of Fellows in
the Humanities.
Rozas-Krause, Valentina: - Valentina Rozas-Krause is a postdoctoral LSA Collegiate Fellow in the History
of Art Department at the University of Michigan. She is both a professional
architect and a historian of the built environment with a focus on global
cultural practices across the Americas and Europe. Rozas-Krause holds a PhD in
Architectural History from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master's
Degree in Urban Planning, and a B.Arch, both from the Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile. She has published two books: Ni Tan Elefante, Ni Tan Blanco (Ril, 2014) and the coedited volume Disputar la Ciudad (Bifurcaciones, 2018).
Sawant, Aditya: - Aditya Sawant is an architect and urban designer and practices as a
researcher and academic in Mumbai. He is particularly interested in issues
related to housing for low-income groups in urban India and was the research director
for the State of Housing India exhibition held in Mumbai in 2018.
He completed his Bachelor's in Architecture from the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi
Institute of Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai University, and his Master's in
Architecture and Urban Design from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard
University. He currently works on research projects about housing with the
Architecture Foundation India and is an assistant professor of urban design at
KRVIA.
Schneider, Luisa: - Luisa Schneider is an assistant professor in anthropology at Vrije
Universiteit and a research partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology in the Law & Anthropology Department. She holds a DPhil in
Anthropology from Oxford University and is working on the anthropology of
violence, intimacy, and law. Since 2018 she has been conducting research with
rough sleepers on how they can live privacy and intimacy if these rights and
protections are tacitly tied to housing.
Stutzin, Nicolas: - Nicolas Stutzin is an architect who graduated from the Universidad de
Chile in 2006. He holds a MSc Advanced Architectural Design and Diploma in
Advanced Architectural Research from the Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University (2011). He was the co-curator
of The Plot: Miracle and Mirage at the 3rd Chicago Architecture
Biennial (2019). His publications include More Permanent than Snow: The Photographing of Aldo van Eyck's
Playgrounds (AA Files,
2014), Cerro Sombrero: Mirages of
Modernity (Andinas, 2017),
Ahead of Their Time (ARQ, 2018) and The Plot: Miracle and Mirage (Revista 180, 2021). Stutzin
is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, Universidad Diego
Portales, and an assistant professor at the School of Architecture, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile.
Talesnik, Daniel: - Daniel Talesnik is a curator at the Architekturmuseum of the Technische
Universität München (TU Munich), where in 2019 he curated Access for All: São Paulo's Architectural
Infrastructures, which was
later shown in 2020 at the Center for Architecture in New York City and in 2021
at the Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum (S AM) in Basel. He is an
architect who studied at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2006) and
earned a PhD from Columbia University (2016) with the dissertation "The
Itinerant Red Bauhaus, or the Third Emigration." He teaches at the TU Munich
and has also taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile, Columbia
University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Vogman, Elena: - Elena Vogman is a scholar of comparative literature and media. She
is the principal investigator of the research project "Madness, Media, Milieus:
Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe" at the Bauhaus Universität
Weimar. She is the author of Sinnliches
Denken: Eisensteins exzentrische Methode (diaphanes, 2018) and Dance of Values: Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project (diaphanes, 2019). Vogman was a visiting
assistant professor of history at New York University Shanghai and held postdoctoral
research positions in the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) project "Rhythm
and Projection" at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Internationales
Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Weimar. Together with
Marie Rebecchi and Till Gathmann she curated the exhibitions Sergei Eisenstein: The Anthropology of
Rhythm at Nomas
Foundation, Rome (2017), and Eccentric
Values after Eisenstein at espace
diaphanes, Berlin (2018).
Xiang, Zairong: - Zairong Xiang is an assistant professor of comparative literature and
the associate director of art at Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou, China. He
is the author of Queer
Ancient Ways: A Decolonial Exploration (punctum books, 2018). He was the chief curator of the
"minor cosmopolitan weekend" at the HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2018), and the
editor of its catalogue minor
cosmopolitan: Thinking Art, Politics, and the Universe Together Otherwise (Diaphanes, 2020). As a member of
the Hyperimage Group, he has co-curated the 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial. He
is working on two projects, both dealing with the concepts of "transdualism"
and "counterfeit" in the Global South, especially Latin America and China. He
was a fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (2014-16) and a postdoctoral
fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Training Group
called "Minor Cosmopolitanisms" at the Universität Potsdam (2016-20).
