Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology, and environmental politics. She is Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union in New York. She has also taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, Columbia University, and Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited widely, including the Venice Biennial, the Istanbul Design Biennial, the Shenzhen Biennial, the Onassis Cultural Center, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. She is the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds. Or, What is the Power of Shit (Lars Muller, 2018) and co-curator of the Tallinn Architecture Biennial 2022.

Friedrich von Borries is an architect, curator, author, and Professor for Design Theory at Hamburg University of Fine Arts. He studied architecture at Berlin University of the Arts, the ISA St. Luc Bruxelles and Karlsruhe Institute of Techology, where he received a Ph.D. in 2004. He has curated several major exhibitions including Updating Germany (German Contribution to the XI. Venice Architectural Biennal, 2008), Klimakapseln (2010), the Design Display Series (2015-2019), and Politics of Design, Design of Politics (2018-2019). His publications include Klimakapseln (Suhrkamp, 2010), RLF (Suhrkamp, 2013), and Weltentwerfen (Suhrkamp, 2016).