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Ondřej Chybík (* 1985, Brno, Czech Republic) studied architecture and urban design in Brno, in Graz, and at ETH Zurich. He is a holder of the Rector’s Award from BUT in Brno (Brno University of Technology) and he won the Bohuslav Fuchs award for best project design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology. After completing his studies, he worked at the Viennese studio, PPAG. His work was exhibited at the MoMA NYC as part of Uneven Growth exhibition. In 2015 Forbes selected him in “30 under 30” list.

Jeff graduated with Honours from Deakin University and has over thirty years of professional experience gained throughout Australasia, South-East Asia, and the United Kingdom. As the Managing Director of fjmt, Jeff is responsible for the overall management of the practice while remaining fully involved as Project Director on a number of important commissions both locally and overseas. Jeff divides his time between Australia and the UK. He has led many of the studio’s award-winning commissions that have been internationally acclaimed for excellence being successfully completed within strict cost and time criteria to the highest levels of quality and innovation. He has substantial experience in a wide array of building types including public, education, commercial and residential. His diverse expertise includes project implementation and consultation processes, procurement methodologies, contract administration and environmental sustainability.

Giacomo Mezzadri and Joana Oliveira are Mezzo Atelier, a young Italian/Portuguese architectural and design practice working both as a studio and as a practical laboratory. Since 2013, the two architects, with different professional backgrounds, run a multidisciplinary atelier developing architectural projects; interior design; temporary structures and self-produced objects and furniture. Inspired by Bauhaus’ concept of global art, their goal is to design spaces and objects as a hole, achieving complete customization for each project and clients. The control of each step of the design process is fundamental, working from the concept until the production and realization of the pieces on their workshop, whenever the project’s scale makes it possible. This approach to the design practice makes it possible to depend less on third parties and develop hand-made and unique pieces. Fascinated by craftsmanship, they bring to life traditions through their contemporary pieces and associate ancient methods with new technologies.

Rui Dinis was born in 1981 in Paredes. Architect formed in the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of the University "Lusíada" (2000-2006). Worked with the architect António Belém Lima between 2006 and 2007, where he was the project manager of some projects. In parallel to this professional activity, he participated in some competitions of ideas and then he founded spaceworkers in 2007, with his two partners: Henrique Marques and Carla Duarte. Since then works as Project Director of this office, participating in lots of public and private projects with various functional programs.

Filipa Frois Almeida, was born in Germany in 1981, is an architect and photographer. Graduated in architecture from Escola Superior Artística do Porto in 2006, she took Erasmus at Technische Universität Berlin in 2004/05. At the same time, she studied photography at the IPF in Porto and at the Imago Galerie in Berlin and exhibited her photography work in Porto, Barcelona, and Berlin. Between 2007 and 2011 she lived and worked in Berlin, where she collaborated with architecture studio J. MAYER H. In 2012, together with Hugo Reis, she founded FAHR 021.3, an experimental and creative studio that, through the combination of the disciplines of art and architecture, seeks to rethink and redefine the spaces that surround us. Since then, the FAHR duo has been awarded nationally and internationally with urban interventions such as Metamorfose (Porto) and Nappe (Taipei). She is also one of the creators of the HODOS project, a collective that aims at the intervention of art and architecture in the landscape, most recently part of the coordination of the Desencaminharte’18 project.

Moradavaga is a collective born from the collaboration of architects Manfred Eccli (Bolzano, Italy, 1981) and Pedro Cavaco Leitão (Porto, Portugal, 1976). Based in Kaltern/Caldaro (Italy) and Porto (Portugal), Moradavaga started working in 2006 around the issues of vacant spaces, derelict buildings and the activation of the public realm, devising performative objects and active interventions, such as social workshops, ideas competitions, and architectural happenings. Intersecting architecture, art, and design, our works function as “dormant tools” in waiting status, requiring the users' engagement to activate them. Moradavaga’s varied and eclectic body of work, has gained international recognition over the years as evidenced by its participation in events promoted by renowned institutions and organizations such as Taipei Public Arts Festival (Taipei, Taiwan, 2017), Walk&Talk (Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, 2016), Altrememorie - Parco dell'arte (Val Saisera, Friulian Alps, Italy, 2016), XXI Triennale di Milano (Objects After Objects, Portuguese Official Representation, 2016), Minus 20 Degree (Art & Architecture Winter Biennale, Flachau, 2016), Centro Cultural de Belém(Tanto Mar – Portugueses Fora de Portugal, Lisbon, 2014), Guimarães 2012 – European Capital of Culture (Pop Up Culture, 2012), Fundação de Serralves (Serralves em Festa, Porto, 2010), Oficina Segovia 2016 (Noche de Luna Llena, 2008).

Albert Company Olmo is a humanitarian shelter specialist, graduating from Building Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is interested in how architecture and engineering can contribute to humanitarian aid in the field. He has worked in South East Asia as construction and designing consultant for Mae Tao Clinic - a community-based organization that provides free healthcare to migrants and refugees from Myanmar. Additionally, he has consulted for UNHCR and Premiere Urgence Internationale supporting several WASH, shelter and health facilities in refugee camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border. In 2012 he cofounded a.gor.a Architects, an architecture studio that promotes and implements sustainable construction techniques through responsible design. This involved preserving vernacular architecture and empowering local communities through education and construction workshops. His studio has been recognized with numerous international awards, and exhibitions such as Think Global, Build Social in Vienna and the Detail Award in 2014 in Berlin for the design and construction of Kwel Kha Baung School in Thailand. Today he combines his role as emergency shelter specialist in Vanuatu (South Pacific) for Care International and as a Water and Habitat Engineer for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Peter Pichler was born in Bolzano, Italy in 1982. He studied Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and in the US at the University of California (UCLA). In 2008 he graduated with distinction in the masterclass of Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher in Vienna. Already during his studies, Peter joined Zaha Hadid Architects in London, where he worked on several competitions covering all scales and on the award-winning Nordkettenbahn in Innsbruck. He worked for Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam on a research project and joined the team of Delugan Meissl in Vienna, collaborating on an award-winning concert hall in Amman, Jordan. After finishing his diploma Peter went to Hamburg where he worked for Zaha Hadid Architects as a project architect on a 150.000m² mixed-use development in Bratislava along multiple international projects and competitions. He turned then back to Italy in 2015 and founded Peter Pichler Architecture together with his wife Silvana Ordinas in Milan. Peter Pichler is a registered Architect in Italy and member of the chamber of architects of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. He has won several architecture prices and was nominated as a young Italian talent by the national chamber of architects in Italy.

Mr. Lin Jianjun is the director/general manager and senior architect of AUBE. Since graduating from Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology in 1993, he has gathered rich experience in architectural design and project management. He has completed various construction projects, including large-scale convention and Exhibition center, super high-rise office building, large-scale commercial complex, apartment and hotel. As the managing director，he unites and leads all colleagues of AUBE to explore and to practice actively in the fields of planning, architecture, project, landscape and other professional areas. As the chief project manager of Shenzhen International Convention and Exhibition Center, he leads the team to advance the construction progress successfully under the condition of tight schedule and large scale. He has been awarded the "outstanding enterprise manager" by THE CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY OF SHENZHEN in 2012, and awarded “industry leader” by Shenzhen Registered Architects Association in 2018, besides, he has won several project awards.

Henrique was born in 1981 in Paredes. Architect formed in the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of the University "Lusíada" (1998-2003). Worked with some architects such as the office HCAR - Helena Castro e António Raposo (Porto), Architect António Cabral Campello and Architect Júlio De Matos. Worked as well in the City Hall of Paredes (2004-2005) and, at that moment, was invited to be part of the technical staff of the office "Rarcon, Arquitectura e Consultadoria S.A.", where he was promoted to Project Director until October of 2008. In parallel to this professional activity, founded spaceworkers in 2007, with his two partners: Rui Dinis and Carla Duarte. Since then he works as Project Director of this office, participating in lots of public and private projects with various functional programs.

Created in Paris in 2012, SO/AP Architects is a company founded by two partners Quentin Duvillier and Adrien Piebourg. The skills and the expertise gathered within the SO/AP team agency are operating in the fields of commercial and sports facilities, housing, retail, built heritage and urban planning. Our society is undergoing profound technical and moral upheaval and we want to bring by the architecture, pragmatic solutions for environmental and socials challenges asked by our time. In between the past and the future, our work is as promoting cultural heritage and the study of its economic potential, as exploring the impact of new Information Technologies and Communication (ICT) on the city’s morphology and its social issues.