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Daniel Talesnik is a curator at the Architekturmuseum of the TechnischeUniversitat Mu nchen (TU Munich), where in 2019 he curated Access for All: Sao Paulo's ArchitecturalInfrastructures, which waslater shown in 2020 at the Center for Architecture in New York City and in 2021at the Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum (S AM) in Basel. He is anarchitect who studied at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (2006) andearned a PhD from Columbia University (2016) with the dissertation "TheItinerant Red Bauhaus, or the Third Emigration." He teaches at the TU Munichand has also taught at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Chile, ColumbiaUniversity, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.Andres Lepik is the director of the Architekturmuseum at the TechnischeUniversitat Mu nchen (TU Munich) and a professor of history of architecture andcuratorial practice at the TU Munich. He studied art history, graduating with aPhD on Architectural Models in the Renaissance. From 1994 he worked as a curatorat 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 acurator 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 LoebFellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.Leilani Farha is the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right toHousing and the Global Director of The Shift. Her work is animated by theprinciple that housing is a social good, not a commodity. Leilani has helpeddevelop global human rights standards on the right to housing, includingthrough her topical reports on homelessness, the financialization of housing, informal settlements, rights-based housing strategies, and the first UNGuidelines for the implementation of the right to housing. She is the centralcharacter in the documentary PUSH regarding the financialization of housing, whichhas been screening around the world. Leilani launched The Shift in 2017 withthe UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the organization UnitedCities and Local Government. Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writeron business and economics for the editorial board of The New York Times. Before joiningthe board in 2019, he was a longtime economic policy correspondent for the Times, based in Washington, DC. He writesregularly about housing issues, including the critical shortage of affordablehousing in the United States and the growing number of Americans who areexperiencing homelessness as a consequence. He is the author of The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society, published in German translation in2020 by S. Fischer Verlage as Die Stunde der OEkonomen. Juliane Bischoffworks as a curator at the NS Dokumentationzentrum Munchen at the interfacebetween exhibition and digital mediation. Together with Nicolaus Schafhausenand Mirjam Zadoff, she co-curated the exhibition Tell me about yesterday tomorrow (2019-20). From2016 to 2019, she worked at Kunsthalle Wien, where she curated, among others, the exhibition Kate Newby: I can't nail thedays down (2018) and also co-curated and organized groupexhibitions and discursive programs. Previously, she has worked at institutionslike Kunsthalle Basel (2012) and Ludlow 38 at Goethe-Institut New York (2015).She is the editor of the publications Kate Newby: I can't nail the days down(Sternberg Press, 2019) and InekeHans: Was ist Loos? (Sternberg Press, 2017) and is a regular contributorto publications in the fields of art, culture, and society. Joao Bittar Fiammenghi is an architect and urban planner based in Sao Paulowith a degree from the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade deSao Paulo (FAU-USP) in 2020, where he is conducting research for his master'sdegree in the field of architectural history (advisor: professor Jose Lira). Asa researcher, Bittar Fiammenghi is affiliated with a joint Brazil/UK project called"Translating Ferro / Transforming Knowledges of Architecture, Design and Labourfor the New Field of Production Studies," funded by the AHRC and FAPESP, informed by the work of the Brazilian architect and theorist Sergio Ferro. Inthis context, he is also a technical trainee with the FAPESP scholarshipprogram.Giovanna Borasi is an architect, editor, and curator. She joined theCanadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in 2005 and has been the director of theCCA since January 2020. Borasi's work explores alternative ways of practicingand evaluating architecture, considering the impact of contemporaryenvironmental, political, and social issues on urbanism and the builtenvironment. She studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, worked asan editor of Lotus International (1998-2005) and Lotus Navigator (2000-04) and was the deputy editorin chief of Abitare (2011-13). One of Borasi's latest curatorialprojects is a three-part documentary film series that reconsidersarchitecture's relationship to and understanding of home and homelessness, living alone, and the elderly. The first film What It Takes to Make a Home (2019) screened at film festivals and institutionsworldwide.Helena Capkova is a researcher, curator, and associate professor of thehistory of art at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. She has written extensively ontransnational visual culture and architecture in Japan and Europe. In 2017-19, she worked as a curatorial researcher for the bauhaus imaginista project andpublished an article called "Framing Renshichiro Kawakita's TransculturalLegacy and His Pedagogy" in the 2019 exhibition catalogue bauhaus imaginista: A School in theWorld, edited byMarion von Osten and Grant Watson. In 2021, she curated a project to mark ahundred years of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Czech Republic, investigating architectural parallels: "1920-2020 PRAGUE-TOKYO / EXCHANGES, PARALLELS, COMMON VISIONS."James Carse is a cofounder of ALAO with extensive experienceleading award-winning projects around the world. Carse is a registeredarchitect, certified urban planner, and accredited LEED Professional. He hasserved as an adviser for the American Planning Association's InternationalOutreach Program and collaborated with public and private entities to reimaginethe way we live, work, and create. James holds a Master of Architecture inUrban Design with Distinction from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and aBachelor of Architecture from Tulane University. He has taught courses in urbandesign, architecture, and interior design at Columbia University, CornellUniversity, Parsons, and Tulane University. Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, born 1985 in Barcelona, is an architect, curator, and scholar based in New York and Madrid. He serves as a scientificadvisor for the new architecture collection at Museo Nacional Centro de ArteReina Sofia, Madrid, where he also works as a curator. He was the chief curatorof the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 together with the After BelongingAgency. His design work has been recognized by several prizes, including theSimon Architecture Prize 2018 and the Bauwelt Prize 2019. At the moment, he isfinishing the manuscript of his doctoral dissertation at Princeton University.Alejandra Celedon is an architect who graduated from the Universidad deChile in 2003. She earned her MSc Advanced Architectural Studies from TheBartlett, University College London in 2007 and her PhD from the ArchitecturalAssociation, London, in 2014. She was the curator of the Stadium, ChileanPavilion, at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) and the co-curator ofThe Plot: Miracle and Mirage at the 3rd Chicago ArchitectureBiennial (2019). Her recent publications include the book Stadium: A Building That Renders theImage of a City (ParkBooks, 2018) and the essays "The Chilean School: A Room for Upbringing and Uprising"(AA Files, 2020) and "The Plot: Miracle andMirage" (Revista 180, 2021). She is the head master ofthe architecture program at the School of Architecture, Pontificia UniversidadCatolica de Chile.Clara Chahin Werneck is a twenty-five-year-old architect and urban plannerwith a degree from the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade deSao Paulo (FAU-USP) in 2020, having done an exchange program at Accademia diArchitettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland. During her studies, she received a scholarshipto conduct undergraduate research on the topics of spatial perception andphenomenology in architecture. Chahin Werneck has worked in architectural firmsin Sao Paulo such as Studio MK27 and Nitsche Arquitetos. She is interested inexploring the combination of practice and theoretical knowledge by engaging inprojects on different scales and contexts, with a respectful consideration for theuse of resources and materiality.Tatiana Efrussi is an artist and art historian currently based inParis. In 2011, she graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with apaper on Soviet connections to the Bauhaus. On the basis of this research, in2012 she curated the exhibition Bauhausin Moscow atMoscow's VKhUTEMAS gallery and graduated with a PhD from Kassel Universiat witha dissertation entitled "Hannes Meyer: A Soviet Architect." Her artisticwork combines archival research and research into the archaeology of spaceswith images and fiction. Recent exhibitions include Escapism: Training Program (Fabrika CCA, Moscow) and Eccentric Values after Eisenstein (with Elena Vogman, Diaphanesspace, Berlin, 2018). An interest in the contemporary conditions of culturallabor inspired her to cofound the collective Flying Cooperation in 2015.Maria Esnaola Cano is an architectural designer and educator based in LosAngeles. She is a registered architect in Spain and a Fulbright Scholar holdinga Master's of Science in Advanced Architectural Design and a Master's of Sciencein Advanced Architectural Research from the Columbia Graduate School ofArchitecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. Through her diverseaffiliations with Los Angeles city institutions and as a member of the board ofdirectors of the LAForum for Architecture and Urban Design, she seeks to engagein current debates over the future of urban landscapes by studying the city asa physical phenomenon and as a cultural artifact. Esnaola Cano is a professorat the USC School of Architecture and is currently a visiting professor at ETHZurich.Fraya Frehse is a professor of sociology at the Universidade de SaoPaulo, where she coordinates the Center for Studies and Research on theSociology of Space and Time (NEPSESTE) and acts as a lead partner of the GlobalCenter of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS, TechnischeUniversitat Berlin). She is an alumna of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a research fellow of the Brazilian National Research Council, and life memberof Clare Hall College (University of Cambridge). Her research focuses mainly onurban theory; space, everyday life, and history; space and time in sociology;body, public space, and urbanization (in Brazil); urban mobility; urbaninequality/poverty; cultural heritage; urban visual culture; and sociology ofeveryday knowledge.Jocelyn Froimovich is an architect licensed in Chile and New York State.As an independent practitioner, her work ranges in focus and scale, fromcollaborative residential projects in New York State to installations such asMoMA's Young Architects Program COSMO exhibited in 2015 at MoMA PS1.Current collaborative projects include the new Biblioteca Lorenteggio in Milanto be built by 2022. She has taught at Columbia University, the PontificiaUniversidad Catolica de Chile, at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt, and theUniversity of Liverpool. Froimovich's approach has a strong collaborative emphasis, believing that successful designs depend upon the close integration of multipledisciplines and a thorough understanding of the various aspects that constitutethe built environment. Erez Golani Solomon earned his PhD in Architecture from the University ofTokyo. He is currently a senior lecturer in architectural design and theory in theArchitecture Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and healso teaches at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University, Tokyo. His research work encompasses a range of issues concerning thecontemporary city, and the ramifications of architectural developments undercontemporary cultures and politics. Golani Salomon practices architecture as a partnerat the Tokyo-based firm Front-Office. In February 2021, he is expected to takea senior fellow position at the Azrieli Architecture Archive of Tel Aviv Museumof Art.Samia Henni is a theorist and a historian of the built, destroyed, and imagined environments, and an assistant professor at Cornell University.She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in NorthernAlgeria (gtaVerlag, 2017, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR), the editor of the War Zones: gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018), the convenerof the 2020 Preston Thomas Memorial Lectures Into the Desert: Questions of Coloniality and Toxicity, and the maker of exhibitions, such as Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020)and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, and Philadelphia, 2017-19).Aya Maceda, a Filipino-Australian architect and professor at ParsonsSchool of Design in New York, cofounded ALAO, a practice that bridges design, research, and social advocacy. A registered architect in Connecticut andAustralia, she has worked with prestigious practices in Australia, Singapore, and the Philippines on the design of award-winning residential andinstitutional projects that enhance the public domain. Maceda received her M.S.Advanced Architectural Design and has taught at Columbia University's GraduateSchool of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). A mother and a boardmember of Westbeth Artists Housing and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, she isdedicated to her advocacies. She has published her writing and built work inpublications globally.David Madden is an associate professor of sociology and the directorof the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. Madden holds a PhDfrom Columbia University. He researches housing, urban theory, and urbanpolitics, with a particular focus on New York City and London. He is the author, with Peter Marcuse, of InDefense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis, which has been translated into six languages. Hiswriting has also appeared in TheWashington Post, The Guardian, and Jacobin. He can be found on Twitter as @davidjmadden.Don Mitchell is a professor of human geography in the Department ofSocial and Economic Geography at Uppsala Universitet and DistinguishedProfessor of Geography Emeritus at Syracuse University. His work focuses onhistorical and contemporary struggles over the urban public, homelessness, therelationship between capital and labor in making the geographical landscape, and historical-geographical materialist theories of culture. His most recentbook is Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital (2020).Stephen Przybylinski is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department ofSocial and Economic Geography at Uppsala Universitet. His current researchconcerns justice theorizing in geography. His ongoing research focuses onproperty, political rights, houselessness, and the justification for liberal democracy. Trude Renwick is a scholar of architecture and urbanism in Thailandwhose research examines the intersection of the built environment, globalization, and spirituality. Her dissertation is an ethnographic study ofthe intersection of commercial and spiritual space in Bangkok. She graduatedfrom the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD in Architecture andcurrently holds a position at Hong Kong University in the Society of Fellows inthe Humanities.Valentina Rozas-Krause is a postdoctoral LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Historyof Art Department at the University of Michigan. She is both a professionalarchitect and a historian of the built environment with a focus on globalcultural practices across the Americas and Europe. Rozas-Krause holds a PhD inArchitectural History from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master'sDegree in Urban Planning, and a B.Arch, both from the Pontificia UniversidadCato lica de Chile. She has published two books: Ni Tan Elefante, Ni Tan Blanco (Ril, 2014) and the coedited volume Disputar la Ciudad (Bifurcaciones, 2018). Aditya Sawant is an architect and urban designer and practices as aresearcher and academic in Mumbai. He is particularly interested in issuesrelated to housing for low-income groups in urban India and was the research directorfor the State of Housing India exhibition held in Mumbai in 2018.He completed his Bachelor's in Architecture from the Kamla Raheja VidyanidhiInstitute of Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai University, and his Master's inArchitecture and Urban Design from the Graduate School of Design, HarvardUniversity. He currently works on research projects about housing with theArchitecture Foundation India and is an assistant professor of urban design atKRVIA. Luisa Schneider is an assistant professor in anthropology at VrijeUniversiteit and a research partner at the Max Planck Institute for SocialAnthropology in the Law & Anthropology Department. She holds a DPhil inAnthropology from Oxford University and is working on the anthropology ofviolence, intimacy, and law. Since 2018 she has been conducting research withrough sleepers on how they can live privacy and intimacy if these rights andprotections are tacitly tied to housing. Nicolas Stutzin is an architect who graduated from the Universidad deChile in 2006. He holds a MSc Advanced Architectural Design and Diploma inAdvanced Architectural Research from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University (2011). He was the co-curatorof The Plot: Miracle and Mirage at the 3rd Chicago ArchitectureBiennial (2019). His publications include More Permanent than Snow: The Photographing of Aldo van Eyck'sPlaygrounds (AA Files, 2014), Cerro Sombrero: Mirages ofModernity (Andinas, 2017), Ahead of Their Time (ARQ, 2018) and The Plot: Miracle and Mirage (Revista 180, 2021). Stutzinis an associate professor in the School of Architecture, Universidad DiegoPortales, and an assistant professor at the School of Architecture, Pontificia UniversidadCatolica de Chile. Elena Vogman is a scholar of comparative literature and media. Sheis the principal investigator of the research project "Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe" at the Bauhaus UniversitatWeimar. She is the author of SinnlichesDenken: Eisensteins exzentrische Methode (diaphanes, 2018) and Dance of Values: Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project (diaphanes, 2019). Vogman was a visitingassistant professor of history at New York University Shanghai and held postdoctoralresearch positions in the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) project "Rhythmand Projection" at the Freie Universitat Berlin and at the InternationalesKolleg fur Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Weimar. Together withMarie Rebecchi and Till Gathmann she curated the exhibitions Sergei Eisenstein: The Anthropology ofRhythm at NomasFoundation, Rome (2017), and EccentricValues after Eisenstein at espacediaphanes, Berlin (2018).Zairong Xiang is an assistant professor of comparative literature andthe associate director of art at Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou, China. Heis the author of QueerAncient 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 theeditor of its catalogue minorcosmopolitan: Thinking Art, Politics, and the Universe Together Otherwise (Diaphanes, 2020). As a member ofthe Hyperimage Group, he has co-curated the 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial. Heis working on two projects, both dealing with the concepts of "transdualism"and "counterfeit" in the Global South, especially Latin America and China. Hewas a fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (2014-16) and a postdoctoralfellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Training Groupcalled "Minor Cosmopolitanisms" at the Universitat Potsdam (2016-20).

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