37 #1 MARÍA MAZZANTI & ANNA BIERLER MARÍA MAZZANTI is an architect educator and researcher based in Amsterdam with a particular interest in critical spatial practices, feminist geography and publishing. She is an editor in Failed Architecture. María is a tutor in Studio For Immediate Spaces, the architecture Master course at the Sandberg Instituut. María teaches theory in the Bachelor’s program of Architecture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. ANNA BIERLER is an independent graphic designer in Rotterdam, specializing in community-based publishing. Anna has taught in institutions such as ArTEZ and the Willem de Kooning Academie and led a multiplicity of workshops in different countries. Both have a collaborative practice rooted in processbased design, questioning anthropocentrism, and exploring posthuman thinking. They have taught together, developed experimental publications, and facilitated workshops on storytelling and reframing humanenvironment interactions in times of environmental collapse. #2 HUSSEIN SHIKHA & SADRIE ALVES Hussein Shikha and Sadrie Alves are collaborators working on the ongoing project ‘Tales of Symbologies’ . They have shared their research in various contexts and workshops such as ULTRADEPENDENT PUBLIC SCHOOL (Utrecht), Open Design Course (Ghent) and Extra City (Antwerp). SHIKHA’s practice betwixt design, art, and research engages with complex symbologies that reflect his heritage and family history —he comes from generations of workers engaged in the traffic and logistics of carpet-making— through equally complex pixel drawing. His work is a reaction to dominant Modernist canons that have discredited the visual cultures he was raised in. His work entails experimental film, animation, textile and interactive installations. Hussein takes the manipulation and transformation of the southern Iraqi carpet (with all its philosophies) as a starting point to understand art and design from Eastern and non-Eastern perspectives, examining possible shifts towards more inclusive and less Eurocentric perceptions of visual arts. He was born and raised in Iraq and moved to Flanders where he is currently based. ALVES is a Belgian Brazilian artist living in the countryside of Flanders. The core of her artistic practice departs from drawing as a symbolic action and catalyst for tender, collective narratives. She is currently working on collaborative projects that share a focus on undermined visual languages, “unreliable” knowledges, and intersectional theory. Together with artist Hussein Shikha, she is developing Tales of Symbologies (2022–ongoing), a research project informed by the philosophies and semiotics of the carpet. With performer Desiree Cerocien, she is developing the musical performance Prazer, Barbara (2022– ongoing), which inquires about the contemporary associations of barbarity and femininity. #3 NINA HAARSAKER, GRO RØDNE & HANNA LANDFALD HANSSEN NINA HAARSAKER is an architect currently working as associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Technology (IAT) at NTNU, developing and communicating creative pedagogical processes linked to spatial investigation and reflection through a wide range of relevant and artistic tools and “making is thinking architecture” methods. GRO RØDNE is an architect, associate professor, cofounder of TRANSark (www.ntnu.edu/transark) and program leader for the master program in Architecture at NTNU in Trondheim. HANNA LANDFALD HANSSEN is an architect currently working as urban planner in the municipality in Bodø, with high interest in the role of creative, open minded and critical thoughts and ideas in the city planning field, and the ability to do this cross disciplines. Formerly working as research assistant at NTNU, Trondheim. #4 JULIAN BRÜES & SIMON OBERHOFER JULIAN BRÜES is an architect, teacher and editor in Vienna. He worked for offices such as Lederer Ragnasdottir and FurrerJud. Since March 2020 he has been working as a research assistant at the department of Raum und Gestalt at TU Graz. In 2020, he received the Start Scholarship with which he founded ‘Diskursiv’, an association for architectural research. Where he codirected the book “Models”. SIMON OBERHOFER (1987/IT) is an architectural photographer based in Austria. Educated at the Technical Universities in Graz and Istanbul he now works for architecture offices, foundations and private clients in Austria and abroad. As a trained architect he seeks to capture the qualities of space, while keeping a poetic point of view. From 2015-2022 teached at Institute for Contemporary Art at TU Graz, where he established the Laboratory for Visual Practice. Since 2023 he teaches at Gestaltungslehre/TU Vienna. #5 ANNA MARAGKOUDAKI ANNA MARAGKOUDAKI (Athens *1984) is a multidisciplinary designer. She hold degrees in Architectural Engineering from the National Technical University in Athens and in Photography and Audiovisual Arts from the University of West Attica. In 2016 she received a Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture and Information from the CAAD Chair at ETH Zurich. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and has professional experience as a practicing architect, photographer, designer and educator. She is inspired by a wide range of themes within contemporary culture which she aspires to materialize in projects, virtual or physical, that oscillate between architecture, object design, virtual technics and installations. Her cardinal tools are intuition and play. Biographies workshop leaders
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