Jesse LeCavalier is an urban designer and Associate Professor at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University where he directs the Master of Science in Advanced Urban Design program. LeCavalier uses the tools of urban design and architecture to research, theorize, and speculate about infrastructure and logistics. He is the author of The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), and his design work has been displayed at Canadian Center for Architecture, MoMA, the Oslo Triennale, and the Seoul Biennale. LeCavalier was the Daniel Rose Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Architecture (2017–19) and the 2010–11 Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in “Cabinet”, “Public Culture”, “Places”, “Art Papers”, and ”Harvard Design Magazine”. His essay "The Restlessness of Objects" was the recipient of a 2013 Core77 Design Award.

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is an architect, urban designer, and Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-EPFL Lausanne, where she leads the laboratory RIOT. Malterre-Barthes’ interests relate to urgent aspects of contemporary urbanization, material extraction, climate emergency, and social justice. While Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Harvard University, she started the initiative ‘A Moratorium on New Construction,’ interrogating current development protocols, published in 2025 with Sternberg Press & MIT Press. Malterre-Barthes holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich on the political economy of commodities and the built environment and is a founding member of the Parity Group (Meret Oppenheim Prize 2023) and the Parity Front, activist networks dedicated to equality in architecture. She co-authored “Migrant Marseille” (2020), “Eileen Gray: A House under the Sun” (2019), “Housing Cairo: The Informal Response” (2016) and “Cairo Desert Cities” (2017), and is the editor of the “Political Economy of Space” book series with Hatje Cantz.

Deane Simpson is an architect and professor of architecture, urbanism and planning at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen where he leads the masters program Urbanism and Societal Change. Educated at Columbia University and ETH Zürich, he has previously taught at the AA London, and the ETH; and previously practiced with Diller + Scofidio. His research addresses contemporary urban and architectural conditions, exploring themes such as: the spatial conditions aligned to the transformation of Nordic welfare systems; the urban implications of large-scale demographic transformation; social and environmental sustainability within urban and regional settings; and problems related to the securitization of public space. Drawing plays a central role in these explorations.Publications include: “Young-Old” (2015); “The City between Freedom and Security” (2017); “FormingWelfare” (2017); “Atlas of the Copenhagens” (2018) and “Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring” (2022).