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Bahar Aktuna

Bahar Aktuna is a Turkish-Cypriot architect and scholar. She holds a Ph.D. in Design, Construction, and Planning from the University of Florida. Her research interests include poetics and ethics of ruins and ruination, placemaking, phenomenological and hermeneutic methods, design/build and tectonics. Bahar is currently a faculty member at the Department of Architecture at Yeditepe University where she teaches design and construction courses.

Anđelka Bnin-Bninski

Anđelka Bnin-Bninski, PhD is educated as an architect engineer with specializations in theory of arts and media (University of Arts, Belgrade) and architectural philosophy (ENSA Paris-La Villette, Paris). She works as an educator, curator and researcher, affiliated with the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture on the position of research associate, and she associated with laboratory Grephau in Paris. She represents University of Belgrade in the ARENA architectural research network.

Her overall approach includes multi- inter- and trans-disciplinary practice engaged in dynamic connections between research and architectural design. She holds experience as practicing architect, as an author and member of design teams and has multiple collaborations with the independent artistic scene in Belgrade. Her twelve-year teaching experience is related to studio design, methodological courses on bachelor and master levels and invited lectures and workshops on doctoral studies. She curates the international drawing research program at the Kolektiv gallery in Belgrade. Her present investigations are focused on tactics of architectural drawing research regarding the critical and ethical approach to architectural design.

Céline Bodart

Céline Bodart holds a professional degree in Architecture and a post-graduate diploma in Architecture & Philosophy. She also graduated in the Experimental Program in Political Arts (SPEAP) from Sciences Po Paris. Ph.D in Architecture from the University of Paris8 (FR) in co-supervision with the University of Liège (BE), she currently teaches at the School of Architecture (ENSA) of Paris La Villette (FR). With Chris Younès, she has co-edited several publications, included Encore l'architecture – encore la philosophie (Hermann, 2016) and Au tournant de l'expérience : interroger ce qui se construit, partager ce qui nous arrive (Hermann, 2018). She also contributed to the publication Cities and architecture under debate, Europan (Parenthèses, 2019).

Serena Dambrosio

Serena Dambrosio is a researcher, lecturer and architect. She’s currently a PhD candidate in Architecture and Urban Studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile where she investigates the politics of urban erasure in the context of western modernization discourses and practices. She has been part of curatorial projects for national and international exhibitions such as the Italy Pavilion "Innesti/Grafting" at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, and "Ephemeral Urbanism Pavilion" at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, among others. She is co-author of the book Part-Time Cities (Santiago de Chile, 2019) and the publication La-Antideriva (Santiago de Chile 2017). She has been a visiting researcher at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, 2019) and the Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, 2020-2021). She also participates in self-organized groups of students, scholars, architects and artists to question conventional spaces of learning and knowledge production in art and architecture, including Assembramenti, La escuela nunca, Porunhabitardigno.

Moragh Diels

Moragh Diels (1994) graduated architect in 2019 at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas. She completed her internship at Herzog & De Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, and in Belgium.

Thierry Lagrange

Thierry Lagrange graduated from University of Ghent, Master of Science in Civil Engineering Architecture (1993) and obtained a PhD, Look Here Now, Mapping Design Trajectories , in 2013 at the Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven. He is a practitioner-architect in Belgium since 1997, www.alt-architectuur.be and a photographer, www.thierrylagrange.com.

He teaches architectural design at the Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven. His master dissertation studio The Drawing and the Space (together with Prof. Johan Van Den Berghe) is an incubator for doctoral research out of which a number of PhD’s have been initiated. Together with visual artist dr. Dimitri Vangrunderbeek he teaches architectural design in their experimental studio The Double Look – Abstraction.

He is head of the research division Architecture & Design at the Department of Architecture. In his current Design Driven Research he is developing new spatialities, so-called Analogous Spaces, wherein intangible and mental elements become explicit. Recently he published two books; Look Space! A Story of Analogous Spaces (Gent: Grafische Cel, 2017) on new created spatialities in his research and The Matrix Project (Gent: AraMER & MER, 2018) on 25 years of his photography in relation to his research.

Constanza Larach

Constanza Larach architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2010. Master in History and Critical Thinking in Architecture at the Architectural Association, 2016. She has collaborated in several exhibitions, including the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2016 and the exhibition "Imagine Moscow" at the Design Museum in London, 2017. She was editor of the catalog of the XX Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of Chile, 2017 and Anales de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Católica (2019-2021) and has also developed independent editorial projects. She currently teaches courses related to History, Theory and Criticism in the Master of Architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and General Editor of the School of Architecture at the Universidad de San Sebastián.

Savia Palate

Savia Palate has recently completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK), which was fully funded by the Vice Chancellor Award. Her research endeavors focus on the entanglement of standards, social norms, and economic processes in prescribing and producing architectural knowledge and space. Palate is currently embarking on a new research project as the principal investigator, titled “Uneasy but Shared Heritage: Modern Hotel Architecture on a Divided Island,” which will be co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation.

Alberto Petracchin

Alberto Petracchin is a PhD candidate in Architectural, Urban and Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano. He graduated in architecture at Università Iuav di Venezia in 2019, with a thesis entitled The Magic World. The Architecture of Cards. He is part of the editorial staff of the scientific journal Vesper. Rivista di architettura, arti e teoria | Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory, directed by Professor Sara Marini; he participates in the research activities of Iuav research unit, within the national research project PRIN “Sylva”. He curated, with Professor Sara Marini, the exhibition Giancarlo De Carlo. Appunti bibliografici held at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino in 2020-2021.

Chiara Pradel

Chiara Pradel, Architect, graduated from IUAV, Venezia, followed by a postgraduate research Master degree from AAM, Mendrisio. Her professional experience revolves around landscape architecture; in particular she has worked as landscape designer in Switzerland and in Europe, with Paolo L. Bürgi, for over ten years. She is now a PhD candidate in Architectural, Urban and Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano. Her research explores ground movements in landscapes, focusing on complex infrastructural construction sites.

Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag

Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag is an architect, educator and researcher born in Aarhus, Denmark in 1975. He earned his PhD in Architecture at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark in 2017. He holds a Master in Architecture. He has 17 years of experience in the private sector as a building architect. He was Co-Founder of architectural office Krag de Ridder ApS in 2006. He teaches and researches in the areas of transformation of depopulating rural villages and radical preservation since 2010. He reviews new architecture at the Danish architectural trade journal “Arkitekten” since 2014.

Johan Van Den Berghe

Jo Van Den Berghe is an architect who graduated in 1984 at Sint-Lucas School of Architecture. He has done his internship at Juliaan Lampens Architect, after which he has continued this collaboration through the Juliaan Lampens Foundation, of which he is a founding member.

He obtained his PhD at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, titled ‘Theatre of Operations: Construction Site as Architectural Design’, in 2012.

He teaches experimental architectural design at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent, Belgium, in the experimental Studio Anatomy (www.studio-anatomy.org) and in Studio The Architectural Detail (http://www.blog-archkuleuven.be/architectural-detail/).

He is a researcher at KU Leuven Department of Architecture in the field of Techné and Poiesis in making architecture (the poetics of making). In his current research he is developing innovative versions of the architectural drawing as an indispensable locus between Techné and Poiesis.

He is a visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano, Queen’s University Belfast, RMIT University Melbourne (campus Barcelona), and EPFL Lausanne.

At KU Leuven Department of Architecture he is Program Director of the master curriculum and has founded the research group The Drawing and the Space (www.thedrawingandthespace.info)(together with Prof.dr. Thierry Lagrange) that focuses on Design Driven Research.

Jo Van Den Berghe is a reflective practitioner-architect (www.jovandenberghe.be) with a critical reflective practice in Belgium since 1986, with which he exhibited twice at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012, 2016).

Chris Younès

Chris Younès is a Psychosociologist, doctor and HDR (habilitated to supervise research) in philosophy. She is a professor at ESA (Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris), founder and member of the GERPHAU laboratory (EA 7486, ENSA Paris-la-Villette), of the PhilAU Thematic Scientific Network (Ministry of Culture, ENSA Clermont-Ferrand) and co-founder and member of ARENA (Architectural Research European Network). Chris Younès is also a member of several architecture and urban planning competitions, and author of several book prefaces, gives numerous conferences in France and abroad (Europe, Middle East, China, Canada, South America).
Her work and research develop the question of inhabited spaces at the crossroads of nature and artifacts, ethics, aesthetics and politics. She has edited more than twenty collective publications, and authored numerous articles and books, including: Architectures de l’existence. Ethique. Esthétique. Politique (Hermann, 2018).

Tadeja Zupančič

Tadeja Zupančič is a professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture. She is Vice-Dean for research, teaches, supervises PhD-s/post- PhD-s, coordinates EU projects and the doctoral programme at the faculty. She studied architecture at UL and finished her Ph.D. in 1995. Her Ph.D. was a manifesto in favour of urban university integration. Her actual main research themes are promoting practice-based and research through design within the integral research tradition in architecture. Her interests are also the cultural dimensions of sustainability and public participation in urban design as an opportunity for life-long action-based learning of all the actors involved. She represents Slovenia in the evaluations of architectural diplomas (Subgroup for Architecture / Group of Coordinators for the Recognition of Professional Qualifications / European Commission). After the eCAADe presidency period (2017-19) she continued as Vice-President of eCAADe (Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe; 2019-21). She is leading the Erasmus+ strategic partnership CA²RE+ (Collective Evaluation of Design-driven Doctoral Training), which supports the CA²RE community (Conference for Artistic and Architectural Research).