RISE, RESIST, REMEMBER

New York City-based Diana Kellogg Architects is committed to sustainable design. Founded in 1992 by Diana Kellogg, the award-winning firm got its start in high-end residential but has evolved in its latter years into nonprofit and community work. A guiding core principle of the Company is its deference to an existing sense of place and history -- creating spaces that provide for communal interconnectivity. Kellogg’s steadfast belief is that thoughtful design through spatial arrangements versus complicated details and expensive materials is what impacts the lives of people the most. The overall emphasis of the firm is one of flexibility to programmatic requirements, site and historic concerns and innovative construction with a dedication to high quality of design. Most recently, Diana Kellogg Architects won critical acclaim for her work on the GYAAN Center in Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, India, commissioned by non-profit CITTA. The structure houses three buildings // The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s School, an exhibition space and a women’s cooperative where artisans will teach mothers and other women traditional skills. The Center will be completely sustainable and serve the lives of the community. Diana Kellogg received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and a BA from Williams College. Prior to establishing her own firm in 1992, Diana was associated with the firm of Gluckman Tang Architects and Selldorf Architects. Diana Kellogg Architects' work has been featured in various publications including The New York Times, Dwell, Architectural Digest and New York Magazine. Diana Kellogg Architects is a registered Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise and the firm has won multiple international design awards.

Julia King is a Research Fellow at LSE Cities and a design practitioner. Trained as an architect her research, design practice and teaching focus on infrastructure and public space in the context of rapid urbanisation, inequitable infrastructure developments and urban micro-culture. She is the founder and director of the ‘Apprenticeship Programme in City Design’ at LSE Cities. The scheme is a novel outreach programme for young adults to learn through practice at the LSE. She also teaches on the Cities Masters Programme at LSE and runs an undergraduate design studio at the Architectural Association. She has won numerous awards for her work including Emerging Woman Architect of the Year (2014), NLA Award, Civic Trust Regional Award and short-listed for a Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award. Her projects have been widely publicized, and she has authored chapters in ‘Home Economics’ (2016) and ‘Infrastructure Space’ (2017) and co-authored a chapter in ‘The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City’ (2017).

Monish Kumar Siripurapu is the founder and principal architect of Ant Studio, New Delhi, which he started in 2010. He graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Delhi in 2009 and received the prestigious JN Tata scholarship in 2015 for his PG Diploma in Robotic Fabrication from Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Spain. In collaboration with his colleagues, he has won many national and international competitions for architecture and design, including the Green Design Award for Design Against The Elements (DATE), the Commercial Design award at FOAID-2018, and most recently, the competition for the renovation and development of the Imagination Centre at Dhun, Jaipur. His works have been published across well renowned architectural journals and platforms, such as World Economic Forum, Architectural Digest, ArchDaily, Inhabitat, among others. The core intent of his work is to bridge between the spheres of Art, Nature and Technology, thus the name ‘ANT STUDIO’. His endeavour is to produce simplistic, almost intuitive design solutions, and use technology, whether it is computational design, roboticsbeliever of amalgamating the natural landscape and the built environ, with the aid of technological tools. He believes that the ecological environment around us has so many divergent facets, which can be magnificently inculcated as a part of the contemporary global façade. Having set his design principles straight, Monish Siripurapu laid the foundation of the ANT Studio, to create designs that aim to not only reduce the harmful effects of the built environment on the natural aspects, but also to create a positive impact on the whole. Holistic bridging between the abiotic and biotic components is the core motto of his team. Having been published in numerous renowned publications in the world namely CNN, The Hindu, STIR World, The Week, World Architecture, Inside Outside, Archdaily, Elle Décor and many more; the architect is fond of participating in intriguing design competitions, as well. He has been an invited speaker at TEDX, UNDP India, Hyderabad Design Week, UNIDO and British Council.

Kashmir born, Iftikhar-mulk Chishti taught the Theory of Design at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi of which he is also a 1975 alumnus. Convenor of Design X Design and founder of StudioiF, his activities include a practice in architecture extending to installations supplemented with theatre and film making : a subject which he pursued during a three-year period in Paris in the late seventies.

Estudio Cavernas is a social architecture non-profit organization committed to achieving sustainable construction in marginalized communities through the development of environmental and well-adapted architecture. Since 2015, Estudio Cavernas has worked in Mae Sot, Thailand, a border area that hosts a large population of immigrants and refugees facing precarious migration experiences, including habitation challenges, lack of infrastructures as well as quality housing. Juan Cuevas has led Estudio Cavernas since 2015, focusing on ephemeral architecture for migrants and refugees in the Thai Myanmar Border.