Dong-Ping Wong is the Founding Director of Food New York, co-founder of Friends of + POOL, and was a founding partner of Family New York with Oana Stănescu. Dong's work has been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, PIN-UP, Fast Company, the Economist and Wired. He was awarded the Diamond Award for Engineering Excellence, the New York Design Award for Best Young Practice and was nominated for the INDEX Awards in Copenhagen.

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Mark L. Gardner AIA, NOMA is a Principal at Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects. Mark has led many of Jaklitsch / Gardner’s design initiatives and works to best understand the role of design as a social practice. He is the Director of the M.Arch. Program and Assistant Professor of Architectural Practice and Society at the School of the Constructed Environments, Parsons the New School.

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Jacqueline Shaw is a designer and Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate design studios. Prior to founding her own practice, she has ten years of professional experience in New York and Detroit as an Associate at SPAN Architecture, and practiced at Jaklitsch/Gardner, readymade by Stephen Burks and M1DTW.

Shumi Bose is a lecturer, curator, and editor based in London, UK. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins, and has worked as curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects and for the Venice Biennale.

Jonathan Jackson is partner of WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA), a design studio that translates clients’ needs into dynamic, visual systems that can be presented at multiple scales. These solutions take the form of branding, interactive, books, environmental or spatial projects.

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Asad Syrkett is a design editor and writer based in Brooklyn. He is the Editor in Chief of Elle Decor. Asad has been on staff at Curbed, Architectural Digest, and Architectural Record, and previously co-hosted a weekly design podcast.

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Esther Choi is an artist and architectural historian based in New York City. She launched Office Hours in 2020. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and featured in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 032C, and more. Esther’s essays have been published in Artforum, Art Papers, Architectural Review, E-Flux Architecture, The Journal of Architectural Education, and SSENSE. Her artist’s book Le Corbuffet was published by Prestel in 2019. Choi is the coeditor of Architecture Is All Over (Columbia U Press, 2017 ) and Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else (MIT Press, 2010). She currently teaches at the Cooper Union.

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Germane Barnes’s research and design practice examine how the built environment influences black domesticity. His design and research contributions have been exhibited in several international institutions, most notably, The Museum of Modern Art and The Graham Foundation, and published in The New York Times and Metropolis Magazine. Barnes is a recipient of the 2021–22 Rome Prize. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami.

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Justin Garrett Moore is a transdisciplinary designer and urbanist. Justin is the Inaugural Program Officer for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Effort to Bring More Voices into Public Spaces and the former Executive Director of the New York City Public Design Commission. He has extensive design and planning experience—from large-scale urban systems, policies, and projects to grassroots and community-focused planning, design, and arts initiatives.

Quilian Riano is the Assistant Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture. Quilian is also the founder and lead designer of DSGN AGNC, a design studio exploring new forms of political engagement and co-creation through architecture, urbanism, landscapes and art. Quilian/DSGN AGNC’s design work has been featured at the Venice Biennale, Queens Museum of Art, Harvard University, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, The New Museum, among others.

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Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, educator, community therapist, and master diversity trainer. He is the Executive Director of StirFry Seminars & Consulting, a diversity training company that provides educational tools and workshops on cross-cultural communication and awareness, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques. The Color of Fear, his documentary film about the state of race relations in the US, was featured in a one-hour special by Oprah Winfrey. His latest film, If These Halls Could Talk, focuses on college students and their experiences with racism and other diversity issues in higher education.

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Tei Carpenter is founder and director of Agency—Agency, a New York City based studio engaging design at a variety of scales including buildings, infrastructures and environments. Tei’s studio has been selected as a 2018 AIA New Practices New York, a Next Progressives by Architect Magazine, and her work was recently featured in PIN-UP, Cultured, and included in Domus’ list of 100 Best Architecture Firms.

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Jonathan Jackson is partner of WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA), a design studio that translates clients’ needs into dynamic, visual systems that can be presented at multiple scales. These solutions take the form of branding, interactive, books, environmental or spatial projects.

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Alyse Archer-Coité has focused her career in art, industrial design and publishing. She began at Sotheby’s, moving to Philips de Pury when she also launched her own arts magazine, MAKER. Alyse went on to create print publications for Neuehouse and Yabu Pushelberg and then moved to Berlin as managing editor for Freunde von Freunden, a design and architecture interview platform. She returned to NYC in 2015 to create the global cultural program for the A/D/O, a BMW MINI Global initiative, where she expanded its global community, and worked with a diverse group of partners. In 2018, Alyse was recruited by Apple where she is currently leading research & special projects for Apple’s Industrial Design team.

Zeina Koreitem is a Lebanese architect and founding partner, with John May, of MILLIØNS, a Los Angeles-based experimental design practice. Their recent work includes a commission by the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts and the restoration and reimagining of the west wing of I.M. Pei’s Everson museum in Syracuse, NY. Prior to founding MILLIØNS, Koreitem worked in the offices of Dominique Perrault and RCR Arquitectes. Koreitem is design faculty at Sci-Arc. Her writing has been published in Project Journal, e-flux, and Harvard Design Magazine.

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Benjamin Kaplan is a multi-disciplinary designer, maker, and creative thinker. He is currently Design Director in the Global Brand Experience Studio at Nike, where he leads a team that creates immersive, multi-sensory experiences for consumers all over the world. Previously, he has worked in a variety of roles across the fields of retail design, architecture, fabrication, and fine art.

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Sumayya Vally is the founder and Principal of Counterspace. Her design, research and pedagogical practice is committed to finding expression for hybrid identity and contested territory. She is obsessed with Johannesburg as a laboratory for finding new, speculative histories, futures and design languages; and is presently based between Johannesburg and London as the lead designer for the Serpentine Pavilion 2020/20 Plus 1. In 2021, she was recognized on the Time100 Next list of people "poised to make history."

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Eddie Opara began his career at ATG and Imaginary Forces and worked as senior designer-art director at 2×4 before establishing his own studio, The Map Office. He joined Pentagram’s New York office as partner in 2010. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Creative Review, Archis, Surface and Graphis. Opara is also a senior critic at the Yale University School of Art and is co-author of Color Works (Rockport, 2014). He was featured in Adweek’s Creative 100 in 2018, Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012 and 2014, and in Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 list.

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Tammy Eagle Bull, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, is recognized as the first Native American Woman architect in the US. She is the co-founder of Encompass Architects, p.c.

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LinYee Yuan is the founder and editor of MOLD, a critically-acclaimed print and online magazine about designing the future of food. Through original reporting, MOLD explores how designers can address the coming food crisis by creating products and systems that will help feed 9 billion people by the year 2050.

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Grace Wales Bonner launched her eponymous label in 2014. Informed by broad research encompassing critical theory, musical composition, literature and history, WALES BONNER embraces a multiplicity of perspectives, proposing a distinct notion of luxury, via a hybrid of European and Afro-Atlantic approaches. In 2015, she was awarded Emerging Menswear Designer at the British Fashion Awards. In 2016, following her first solo runway presentation, she received the LVMH Young Designer Prize. In 2019, Wales Bonner was announced the winner of the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund.

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Ana María León’s work examines how architectures of struggle have shaped the modernity of the Americas. León is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, where she teaches architectural history and theory with a focus on transnational connections across the American continent. She is co-founder of several research and practice collectives including Nuestro Norte es el Sur and the Settler Colonial City Project, and author of Modernity for the Masses (University of Texas Press, 2021).

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Jenny is the founder of Hello Human, a global PR collective for creatives. She is a seasoned communicator who is passionate about creativity, design and the people behind it. Jenny has worked primarily in the cultural and design sector for clients and collaborators including Airbnb, Art for Amnesty, Bottega Veneta, Domino Magazine, Frame Publishers, Kengo Kuma, Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, Robert Indiana, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s More Trees, Tantuvi, teNeues, The Philip Johnson Glass House, The Seaport District, Vogue Living, Yayoi Kusama, and more.

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Ann Lui is an architect and Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan. She co-founded Future Firm, an architecture and design research office in Chicago, that collaborates with folks who are changemakers in their own communities. She co-curated the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, "Dimensions of Citizenship," and currently organizes The Night Gallery, an exhibition of film and video work in public space in Chicago's South side.

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Jennifer Newsom is an architect, artist, Assistant Professor at Cornell AAP, and cofounder of Dream The Combine with Tom Carruthers. Dream The Combine creates public art installations that challenge perceptions and bring people together. They are winners of the 2018 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, the 2020-2021 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize, the 2021 McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists, and are part of the curatorial ensemble for Counterpublic 2023.

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Carson Chan is Curator of Architecture and Design, and the Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Deanna Van Buren is the co-founder and executive director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces. An architecture and real estate non-profit working to end mass incarceration through place-based solutions, DJDS builds infrastructure that address its root causes: poverty, racism, unequal access to resources, and the criminal justice system itself.

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Esther M Choi is a Canadian artist and architectural historian based in New York. She is the founder of Office Hours (2020–) and a 2022-23 Getty/ ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art. Choi is the co-editor of Architecture Is All Over (Columbia U, 2017) and Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else (MIT Press, 2010). Her writing has been published in Artforum, Art Papers, E-flux, and more.

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Camille Okhio is an art and design historian and writer living and working in New York City. She is the Senior Design Writer at ELLE Decor and has published pieces in T Magazine, Vogue, Architectural Digest, W Magazine, Apartamento, PIN UP, Art in America, Wallpaper*, TEFAF Stories and more. Her work centers on the decorative arts’ narrative potential.

Sara Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde, a design firm in New York City practicing landscape architecture, urbanism, and public art. Named to Architectural Digest's AD100 and an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, the firm is celebrated for its design methods that sync culture, ecology, and craft. In parallel with practice,  Sara serves as  Assistant  Professor of Practice at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is writing a forthcoming book with Simon & Shuster. 

Samia Henni is an architectural historian, exhibition maker and educator. Working through textual and visual strategies, her practice interrogates histories of the built, destroyed and imagined environment—those produced by processes and mechanisms of colonization, forced displacement, nuclear weapons, resource extraction and warfare. Henni’s research has culminated in the award-winning book Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag, 2017, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR) and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (If I Can’t Dance, Framer Framed, edition fink, 2023), as well as in the edited volumes War Zones, gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018) and Deserts Are Not Empty (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022); and in exhibitions including Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery/SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseilles, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, and Charlottesville, 2017–22).

Writer-director Andrew Thomas Huang crafts hybrid fantasy worlds and mythical dreamscapes. A Grammy-nominated music video director, Huang's collaborators include Bjork, FKA Twigs and Thom Yorke among others. His films have been commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Sydney Opera House and the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA.  Huang also directs for film and TV, including an episode of Terence Nance’s Random Acts of FlynessSeason 2 on HBO.  Inspired by his Chinese heritage, queer Asian mythology and folklore, Huang is in late development on his feature film TIGER GIRL which has received support from Film Independent, SFFILM, Cinereach and the Sundance Institute. Huang graduated with a degree in Fine Art and Animation from the University of Southern California.

Martine Rose is a menswear designer who lives and works in London. Rose established her eponymous label in London in 2007, which has since evolved from a tightly edited shirting collection to an internationally renowned and critically acclaimed brand. Rose is inspired by her Jamaican-British heritage and her deep interest and personal involvement in the music and high / low melting-pot cultures of London. Family and community are at the heart of the company–famously her shows have been held in spaces such as the covered markets of Tottenham, a neighbourhood cul-de-sac in Camden and Torriano primary school. She was nominated for the British Fashion Council’s Menswear Designer of Year in 2018 and 2019, and the Urban Lux Award in 2019. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the LVMH prize and nominated for the ANDAM award for emerging designers.