IDW 2020

28 29 José Quintanar Ruohong Wu and José Quintanar are practising as artist, architect and publisher. They are educated as architects - Ruohong is from the Architectural Association London and Jose Quintanar from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, where he is currently a PhD researcher. Together they founded the independent art publishing house Ruja Press and design research platform Ruja Office. Their work has been exhibited internationally in London, Paris, New York, Milan, Madrid, Tokyo and Antwerp, widely published in the New York Times, El Croquis, Dezeen, Vice, El Pais, etc. They have been teaching and lecturing at Architectural Association School London, China Academy of Art, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Politecnica de Madrid, IED lstituto Europeo di Design Madrid, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, etc. Mariana Sendas MONOatelier (Milan/Porto) Graduated in Architecture from the ESAP – Escola Superior Artistica do Porto in 2006, Mariana also attended the Milan Polytechnic (IT). She has collaborated with Menos é Mais, Aarquitectos (Porto, PT), Onsitestudio Architects and Peia Assosciati (Milan, IT). She is co-founder with Alberto Pottenghi of MONOatelier, based in Milan and Porto since 2009. From 2011 until 2015 she collaborated at the Milan Polytechnic with Federico Bucci, Vittorio Logheu and Marco Borsotti. From 2012 she is collaborator at the Milan Polytechnic at the chair Architectural Design In Historical Context with Eduardo Souto de Moura and João Luís Carrilho da Graça. From 2014 she is collaborator at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (CH), with Walter Angonese (bachelor), Cristina Guedes (master) and Francis Kéré (diploma). She is currently professor at the Universitò degli Studi di Ferrara (IT) for the degree course for Product Design. Alexandra Sonnemans Alexandra Sonnemans (Balgrade, 1986) is an architect and urban designer based in Rotterdam. She graduated in 2011 as MSc at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture. She has gained experience at VMX Architects, as project architect at ZUS office in Rotterdam , Blauwdruk Stedenbouw in Antwerp and the International Architecture Biennale (IABR). rotative studio is the collaboration between Caterina Viguera and Alexandra Sonnemans founded in 2017. With rotative studio they research and expand the notion and experience of architecture and the built environment, through the use of a variety of formats - e.g. drawings, exhibitions, dialogues, spatial installations. At the same time, they continuously reconnect abstract ideas and experimental forms to concrete situations, locations, objects, buildings, inhabitants, and city-dwellers. They work on commission and on self- initiated projects, ranging from refurbishments, pavilions and spatial installations to experimental research, exhibitions and publications Múcio Jucá Vasconcellos Architect Urbanist, graduated at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (1995) and post-graduated with Master’s degree in Urban Development at the same University (2002). Múcio Jucá holds a career as a teacher at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of UNICAP - Catholic University of Pernambuco, both at Architectural Design Studios and Urban Development, and combines his teaching activities with architectural design and urbanism practices as a founding partner of Z Arquitetura e Consultoria (since 1996), working in the development of Architecture Projects and urban design and interventions. More recently, has joined forces with partners to create the Social Architecture Laboratory, to promote technical assistance in low- income communities. Traumnovelle Traumnovelle is a militant faction founded by three Belgian architects: Léone Drapeaud, Manuel León Fanjul and Johnny Leya. Traumnovelle uses architecture and fiction as analytical, critical and subversive tools to emphasize contemporary issues and dissect their resolutions. Traumnovelle alternates between cynicism and enthusiasm all the while advocating for critical thinking in architecture. Traumnovelle champions a multi-disciplinary approach with architecture at the crossroads. Traumnovelle distances itself from current forms of naive architecture and refuses to glorify the mundane. Traumnovelle sides with those who have not sacrificed ambition and criticism. Traumnovelle were the commissioned curators for the Belgian contribution to the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2018. They have been lecturing in Brussels, Paris, Marseille, Rotterdam, Kiev, Ljubjana. They are working internationally on different scales ranging from reconversions of industrial buildings to paper architecture. Their work has been published in Site Magazine, l’Architecture d’aujourd’hui, A+, Architectural Digest and Cosa Mentale amongst others. Ellen Verbiest Ellen Verbiest is an architect, urban designer and researcher, specialized in translating complex spatial concepts into imaginative cartography. Ellen gained a broad work experience as a socio-spatial researcher at endeavor , as an urban designer working with CLUSTER landscape and urban design and as an architect at poot architectuur . Since 2016, Ellen Verbiest conducts research projects for, among others, Departement Omgeving (Resilience of the Kleine Nete valley) , for Architecture Workroom Brussels (IABR) , more recently the graphic translation of research by design for Stadsatelier Oostende and a cartographic research of the Antwerp city region for LABO RUIMTE. In addition to her work, Ellen does proactive research into the role of citizen initiatives in the city. She was a coinitiator of We Kopen Samen den Oudaan , joining forces with a variety of engaged professionals to set up a concept to collaboratively buy and develop the iconic Oudaan tower. Today, Ellen is part of Onder Stroom collective, investigating the role of commons in the city through its own practice of vacancy management. Caterina Viguera Caterina Viguera (Barcelona, 1986) is an architect and urban designer based in Zürich. She graduated in 2011 as MSc at the ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona and obtained a MAS Urban Design at the ETH Zürich in 2015. She has gained experience at Ammann Albers Stadtwerke Zürich, Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, Departament d‘Historia d‘Arquitectura ETSAB, Acconci Studio New York, a.o. rotative studio is the collaboration between Caterina Viguera and Alexandra Sonnemans founded in 2017. With rotative studio they research and expand the notion and experience of architecture and the built environment, through the use of a variety of formats - e.g. drawings, exhibitions, dialogues, spatial installations. At the same time, they continuously reconnect abstract ideas and experimental forms to concrete situations, locations, objects, buildings, inhabitants, and city-dwellers. They work on commission and on self- initiated projects, ranging from refurbishments, pavilions and spatial installations to experimental research, exhibitions and publications. Ruohong Wu Ruohong Wu and Jose Quintanar are practising as artist, architect and publisher. They are educated as architects - Ruohong is from the Architectural Association London and Jose Quintanar from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, where he is currently a PhD researcher. Together they founded the independent art publishing house Ruja Press and design research platform Ruja Office. Their work has been exhibited internationally in London, Paris, New York, Milan, Madrid, Tokyo and Antwerp, widely published in the New York Times, El Croquis, Dezeen, Vice, El Pais, etc. They have been teaching and lecturing at Architectural Association School London, China Academy of Art, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Politecnica de Madrid, IED lstituto Europeo di Design Madrid, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, etc.