Hélène FRICHOT

                       Architectural theorist and philosopher, writer and critic, Hélène Frichot is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, and Director of the Bachelor of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia. She is Guest Professor and the former Director of Critical Studies in Architecture, as well as Professor of Critical Studies and Gender Theory, in the School of Architecture, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Stockholm, Sweden, where she was based between 2012-2019. Drawing on the two disciplines in which she is trained, architecture and philosophy, her research engages a transdisciplinary field by experimenting with feminist theories and practices, specifically drawing on new materialism and the post-humanities. She is the author of How to Make Yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool (AADR 2016), Dirty Theory: Troubling Architecture (AADR 2019), and editor on a number of publications, including the upcoming Writing Architectures: Ficto-Critical Approaches (Bloomsbury 2020) co-edited with Naomi Stead.

Marina OTERO VERZIER

               Marina Otero Verzier is an architect based in Rotterdam. She is the Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Additionally, she will start at the new head of the MA ins Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven this September. As Director of Research at HNI, Otero she lead research initiatives such as ‘Automated Landscapes,’ focusing on the emerging architectures of automated labour, ‘Architecture of Appropriation,’ on squatting as spatial practice, and ‘Burn-Out: Exhaustion on a planetary scale,’ which instigates other forms of coexistence, sensibility and care for multispecies, collective bodies. In addition to her role at HNI, Otero was a member of the Artistic Team for Manifesta 13, and Curator of WORK, BODY, LEISURE, the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2018. With the After Belonging Agency, she was Chief Curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. She has edited Work, Body, Leisure(2018), and co-edited Unmanned: Architecture and Security Series (2016), After Belonging (2016), Architecture of Appropriation (2019) and More than Human (forthcoming).

Ana MILJAČKI

                       Ana Miljački is a critic, curator and Associate Professor of Architecture at MIT, where she teaches history, theory and design. Miljački directs the Master of Architecture Program and the Architecture and Urbanism Group at MIT. She was part of the three-member curatorial team of the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her Un/Fair Use, exhibition with Sarah Hirschman was on view at the Center for Architecture in New York in the fall of 2015 and at Berkeley University’s Wurster Gallery in 2016. In 2018 Miljački launched the Critical Broadcasting Lab at MIT, whose work “Sharing Trainers” was included in the São Paulo Architecture Biennale in the fall of 2019. She is the author of The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle 1938-1968 (Routledge, 2017), and the editor of Terms of Appropriation: Modern and Architecture and Global Exchange with Amanda Reeser Lawrence (Routledge, 2018), and editor of Under the Influence symposium (Actar 2019).

John GODFREY

                       An Assistant Dean at the Rackham Graduate School, John Godfrey works with faculty to develop innovative programs of graduate study and helps develop policy and initiatives that make Michigan a global leader in graduate education. He also works closely on international graduate education issues and has helped build the University's relationships overseas. Dr. Godfrey is chair of the Wallenberg Executive Committee which since 1990 has selected recipients of the annual Wallenberg medal, awarded to individuals who have shown extraordinary commitment and courage in defending the persecuted and powerless and in protecting human rights. He helped establish the Wallenberg Fellowship for an outstanding member of the senior class to carry out an independent and self-designed year-long immersive exploration or project anywhere in the world. In 2015-16 the Wallenberg Fellowship was awarded to Bjornar Haveland (B.S. Architecture).