• Aistė
  Ambrazevičiūtė

  Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė is a digital artist and experimental architect based in Lithuania. By sensing hyperlocal surroundings through textures, her work amplifies complex and diverse, but often invisible worlds. Merging digital and natural realities her practice stimulates the arts of noticing and visualizing the unimagined curiosities. Currently Aistė is a PhD candidate at the Vilnius Academy of Arts working on the Grammar of Lichens.

• Anna
  KubelÍk

  Architect and artist, graduated from the Architectural Association in London before pursuing an artistic and experimental career with a base in Berlin. Her projects are defined by collaborative processes which intertwine scientific themes with dance, music, installations and kinetic art;

• Architecture uncomfortable
  workshop

  It is a Budapest based architecture office led by Dénes Emil Ghyczy and Lukács Szederkényi. Besides planning they always try to make experiments in small case projects. One of the biggest motivations for them is the understanding of contemporary vernacular architecture. They are continuously looking for a situation, where comfort meets real human needs. They are currently teaching architecture at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

• Erika
  Henriksson

  Architect working on the borderland between architecture, art, craft and research. Her areas of expertise are practice-based enquiry, relational knowledge formation and low-impact building methods. Recurring themes in Erika’s work are ecology, social and material relations, care and questions that concern life itself.

• Ewa
  Effiom

  Ewa Effiome is a London-based Belgo-Nigerian architect, writer and producer. He was a member of the Architecture Foundation’s New Architecture Writers’ second cohort which culminated in a critically acclaimed public programme. Mythology, collective identity, popular culture and their inextricable links to the built environment are recurring themes in his work with a focus on the mythology and folklore that different subcultures instate and are associated with space. He has been published in the Architect’s Newspaper, Dwell, the AJ, ICON, Wallpaper, Frame, OnOffice, Architecture Aujourd'hui, the Modern House magazine, A Daily Dose and Ex Libris. His piece “Architecture, Buildings and Conservation“ in MAJA was nominated for best piece in the 2022 Estonian Architecture Awards and with a proposal entitled “Adaptive Re-use“ he came second place in the Tallinn Architecture Biennale’s 2021 Curatorial Competition. His film “Eagle Mansion“ was premiered at the 2021 Urban Film Festival in Perth and screened at 2022 Melbourne Design Week. He was awarded the 2022 “How Not To Be A Developer” Residency at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, which is the year that his second film “Beck Road” premiered at the Open City festival. “Beck Road“ later screened at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale entitled Laboratory of the Future as part of the curator, Lesley Lokko’s Carnival public programme. In addition to being a British Council Venice Fellowship mentor in 2023, he was made a 2023 LINA Fellow. After graduating he became an associate lecturer on the MA in Architecture + Urbanism at the Manchester School of Architecture, a post he held until 2022 and he is a visiting critic at the Estonian Institute of Technology and London Metropolitan University.

• James
  Taylor-Foster

  Writer, editor, cultural critic, who works with architecture, design, e-culture, and technology. Curator of contemporary architecture and design centre in ArkDes. European Editor at Large for Arch Daily and Co-Curator for the exhibition of the 2016 Nordic Pavilion (representing Finland, Norway and Sweden) 2016 Venice Biennale.

• Jürgen
  Bey

  Renowned designer, founder of Studio Makkink & Bey with Rianne Makkink, director of Sandberg Instituut since 2010, which looks for a way to align studies with the dynamic of modern-day culture, issues of contemporary society such as vacancy, art and political spatial design.

• Margarida
  Waco

  Margarida Waco is a Cabindian-Danish architect, writer, and educator. She is an Associate Lecturer and MA Studio Lead at the Royal College of Art in London as well as an Editorial Advisor to The Funambulist. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, Palais de Tokyo and Nyansapo Afro-feminist Festival in Paris, Malmö Art Museum and Chicago Architecture Biennial. Her writings have been published in Afterall Journal, Ellipses Journal of Creative Research, Archive of Forgetfulness, arcspace.com, among others. She is the co-author of Informal Horizons (2019), the co-editor of The Funambulist Issue 32 “Pan-Africanism“ (2020), and “Homeplace – A Love Letter“ (2023).

• Michou-Nanon
  de Bruijn

  Senior designer at Studio Makkink & Bey, a teacher at Master's inside KABK and Academy of Architecture, works in different domains of applied art, where her interest lies in the relation between the private and public domain. Her critical research leads to product, interior, exhibition designs, future care visions and projects, events in the public domain.

• Millonaliu
  

  Klodiana Millona (Albania) and Yuan Chun Liu (Taiwan) are spatial practitioners, researchers and educators based in Rotterdam. Their work focuses on the intersection between the politics of invisibility in space and invisibilized spatial practices within dominant narratives of the built environment. Their research interrogates spatial ecologies of ruptures through entangled readings of socio-political imaginaries mediated by spatial representation. Klodiana is currently a tutor at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK) and together with Yuan Chun they engage with different independent forms of pedagogy.

• Miodrag
  Kuč

  Transdisciplinary artist, urban theorist and pedagogist, whose work researches complex relations between ephemeral structures, spatial appropriations and urban politics. Studied urban planning and urban sociology at the Bauhaus University Weimar and Tongji University Shanghai. Currently works as programme director of the hybrid cultural institution ZK/U Berlin (Centre for Arts and Urbanistics, Berlin), exploring the potentials of critical urban pedagogy (ZEDucation) and the role of grass-roots initiatives in trans-sectoral urban development (Haus der Statistik).

• Océane
  Ragoucy

  Océane Ragoucy is an architect, independent curator and critic, her practice develops in the fields of architecture, art and ecology. Her projects focus on the modes of production of architecture, the margins, the inner workings of cities, and ecological narratives. She is a lecturer at the École d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais and a contributing editor to AOC, an online journal of ideas. In 2023, she was named one of the outstanding French young female voices in architecture by AMC magazine and a LINA Fellow. She is currently working on a podcast series about invisible jobs in Paris.

• Palace of Un/Learning
  

  Palace of Un/Learning was founded by Bernadette Krejs and Max Utech as a space for exploring, negotiating, and sharing counter-hegemonic design strategies aiming for a most possible diverse (queer-feminist) urban society.
  Bernadette Krejs (Ph.D.) is an architect/researcher based at TU Wien (Housing and Design). Her work moves in a transdisciplinary field between architecture, housing, and visual culture, where she critically engages with various aesthetic practices and politics. Max Utech is an architect/researcher based in Vienna and Paris working between urbanism, architecture, and art. He teaches at TU Wien (Housing and Design) and was a fellow at Cité des Arts Paris and ZK/U - Center for Art/Urbanistics Berlin.

• TAAT
  

  TAAT is an arts collective that develops environmentally engaged installations for embodied encounters between humans and more-than-humans. The collective operates as a transdiciplinary practice that shifts between artistic research, social practice and collaborative learning. TAAT is currently growing Encounter Portals: bio based structures that contribute to a regenerative co-existence. These portals are part of the long term project HALL33. For Experiments’ Platform 2023 Goda Verikaite, Breg Horemans and Gert-Jan Stam will be representing the collective.

• Tevi Allan
  Mensah

  Tevi Allan Mensah lives and works between Lyon and Paris. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Lyon in 2022. He is developing a personal practice between the architectural project and artistic creation. He is a 2022-23 Fellow of European Architecture Platform LINA.
  This multidisciplinary work mixes eclectic mediums: video, publishing, installation, constructed projects as well as research projects. He is interested in the imaginary of border territories, as well as the possibility of architecture as a means of collective communication.

• Xenia
  Adjoubei

  Architect, Founder, Nikola-Lenivets Classroom, Director, AdjoubeiScottWhitby Studio. Leads projects in education and culture, curates research and education on the New Rural, how collective art sustains communities, new labour economies and the natural resources of the future.