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Ron Benner, a visual artist, gardener and social justice activist from London, Ontario is currently artist in residence in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph where he has installed a photographic/garden work on the grounds of The Arboretum. He is a co-founder and curatorial advisor of the Embassy Cultural House. embassyculturalhouse.ca Michael Blois is a practicing architect with Perkins and Will in Toronto. He focuses on civic and educational projects and maintains an interest in design research and woodworking. He can be reached at mikeblois@gmail.com Scot Bullick : born and raised Calgarian with interests in visual and auditory arts. My collecting nature supports a 3-D collage practice. I still use a sketch book and watercolour between digital and photo experiments. Douglas Robb is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Doug’s research investigates the complex landscapes that emerge through interactions between the cultures, infrastructures, and political ecologies of energy. wdouglasrobb.com Adrian Cooke is an artist/sculptor with a record of solo and group exhibitions across Canada. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Canada Council Art Bank are among the institutions that include his work in their collections. www.adriancooke.com Stephanie Davidson is an assistant professor at Ryerson School of Interior Design, Toronto and co- founder of the design practice Davidson Rafailidis, which was a 2018 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices winner. Their project Big Space Little Space was the 2020 Architectural Review House winner. www.davidsonrafailidis.net @davidsonrafailidis Mark Dorrian is Forbes Chair in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of Metis. Last year he ran a design studio on animation and now is trying to write about ice, starting with Rabelais’s frozen words. Karianne Halse is an architect and PhD fellow at Aarhus School of Architecture (Denmark). Her research project investigates architectural potentials of weakness from a material perspective (philosophy of G. Vattimo, ‘weak thought’), explored through artistic architectural research. www.karianne-h.dk Peter Hargraves , facilitator of the artistic and social dreams of others, founded Sputnik Architecture about ten years ago to work at the intersection of artistic practise and social mission, including Winnipeg’s Warming Huts, Riverwood House transitional housing and the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre. He has created ice stages for Royal Canoe and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival. https://sputnikarchitecture.com Suzanne Mathew is an Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and has a background in biology, architecture, and landscape architecture. She engages cross-disciplinary approaches to visualise the phenomenological qualities of landscape space. Roger Mullin is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Dalhousie University. He has practiced architecture internationally and was awarded the Lieutenant Governor General of Nova Scotia Masterwork Arts Award, the ACSA’s Best Collaborative Practice Award, and the Design Exchange and the National Post ’s Gold Award for Best Public Commercial Building in Canada. He currently combines his collaborative design-build, drawing and teaching practices in areas of the North Atlantic. David Murray is an architect in Edmonton, Alberta. His practice is focused on architectural conservation. It is the stories and people associated with his projects that bring about the greatest curiosity, pleasure and reward. www.davidmurrayarchitect.ca Photolanguage (Nigel Green & Robin Wilson) is a collaborative art practice documenting and reimagining the legacies of modernity in urban and landscape sites. They are currently working on a new book on Parisian Brutalist architecture. Photolanguage.info Yann Ricordel-Healy , born 1976, is writing both fiction (short stories, and presently his first novel) and non-fiction (especially theory and history of visual arts since the 60s), and fabricating bidimensional or tridimensional images. Michael M Simon ’s interdisciplinary installation and sculpture-based practice draws from his experience in design and fabrication. His work recontextualises common labour-related objects, tools and materials and explores the complex relationships between people and things. www.michaelmsimon.com Greg Snyder is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte. His research interests are in issues that arise out of acts of making and construction, and the phenomena and meaning that accrue in and around these acts. Emily Vogler is a landscape architect whose research, design and teaching investigate social-ecological systems surrounding water infrastructure, sense of place, and climate uncertainty. She is an Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. Yiou Wang is a designer, artist, and researcher whose works intersect architecture, narrative, ludology, and technology. Yiou holds a B.A. in psychology and is currently a Master of Architecture candidate at the GSD. https://yiouwang.org
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