Abhijan Toto is an independent curator and researcher, who has previously worked with the Dhaka Art Summit, Bellas Artes Projects, Manila and Council, Paris. He is the recipient of the 2019 Lorenzo Bonaldi Prize at the GAMeC, Bergamo.

Anuj Daga is an architect, writer and curator based in Mumbai. His practice is informed by diverse engagements in fields of design, research and academia that have resulted in numerous roles as writer, critic, commentator, theorist or interlocutor in the cultural field. Anuj has worked with several cultural institutions including Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, MoMA – New York, CAMP – Mumbai, Godrej Innovation Centre and Serendipity Arts Foundation in different capacities. Currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture, Anuj has a keen interest in studying the processes of visual culture and meaning-making in the contemporary built environment in South Asia.

Ahmed Rasel (b.1988, Barishal) is a visual storyteller. He has a Master's degree in Bengali Literature and a diploma in photography from Counter Foto-A Centre for Visual Arts, where he now works as an adjunct faculty member. Rasel's work presents contemporary socio-political issues intertwined with his personal experiences in which memory, collective memory, space, politics, psychological states, environment, water bodies are some of the crucial motifs. His work has been published and exhibited in several national and international forums, in photo festivals and biennales. He was one of the finalists of Samdani Art Award 2018, a participant of the Young Subcontinent Project of Serendipity Arts Festival in 2017, and one of the finalists of Stitching Screens grant by Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art and Samdani Art Foundation, 2020.

Apurva Talpade is an architect and visual artist concerned with questions around the drawings and representations of space along with the contemporary politics of image. She graduated from the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and pursued a Master’s degree in Visual Arts with a focus on Illustration from the Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London. Her visual explorations draw on multiple systems of references and collection, and use processes ranging from printmaking to digital collage. She has previously exhibited her work in London as part of an artist collective. She currently works as an Assistant Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture where she also coordinates its publication cell (SEA-PRESS) and a research cluster in Visual Culture.

Ashok Sukumaran is an architect and a media artist. He is the co-founder of CAMP in Mumbai. His work deals with the intersection of human habitat with “embedded” technology and the physical terrain of digital media amongst many other things. In adopting the view that many new-media technologies are not fundamentally new, his projects imagine a “what could have been” scenario between the disciplines of interactive art, early and pre-cinema, and architecture. Site-related and public forms of mediation are a deep and growing interest in his practice. Ashok’s works, along with CAMP, have been exhibited at various national international events and venues.

Dinesh Barap is a resident of the Navpada village in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai. His work primarily takes the form of Warli painting, a tradition he was born into and learned closely from his grandmother, herself an artist. His paintings are concerned with the histories and narratives of the village, the forest and the city that he gleans from people around him. He is a graduate of the Ramnarain Ruia College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. His works have been exhibited in India and internationally, and his practice also engages with teaching of drawing in various capacities including, walks, workshops and short courses.

Dipti Bhaindarkar is an architect and urban designer. She has taught as an Assistant Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture since its inception. Her practice engages with questions on institutional thinking to make academic administration agile. Her research work focuses on experiential dimensions of technology, on explorations in sustainable development and on South Asian architecture and urbanism.

Dushyant Asher is an architect and technology enthusiast, he is interested in spatial interfaces of technology and life. He has worked in design, computational and material domains exploring material-digital intersections. He is currently engaged in research on new material ecologies as a part of the academic teaching programs at the School of Environment and Architecture.

Gayatri Kodikal is an artist, narrative designer and game maker also known as gamedevi who has exhibited her work internationally. Her work indulges in the specificities of the speculative, multilayered entangled histories, shape-shifting as a narrative trope, and the radical sexual female body politics that presupposes the confluence of femininity, motherhood and materiality. She is working on a long term project which imagines the Mangrove Game-world, a viscous matter, that is sometimes water and sometimes land, as a site of refuge, resistance and repair. Moving image, sound, game design and oral storytelling performances that she calls 'game-world readings' lead her to play with traces, decay, hauntings, encounters within world-building processes while undoing the archive. She is currently based between Rotterdam and Goa, and works as a Speculative Fiction Coach at MAMA, Rotterdam, and Fellow at BAK, Utrecht, in the Fellowship for Situated Practice.

Guillermo Parada, along with his team, runs a studio gt2p, involved in projects of architecture, art and design, established in Santiago, Chile. Their work is oriented towards a continuous process of research and experimentation in digital crafting, promoting new encounters between the technologies for projecting and the richness of local expression in traditional materials and techniques.

Kausik Mulhopadhyay is an artist and teacher based in Mumbai. He has a B.V.A from Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta and a M.F.A from Viswa Bharati University, Shantiniketan. He works across multiple mediums, but primarily thinks through kinetic and static installations that repurpose "junk" - old electronic items, discarded household objects, etc in order to rethink everyday relationships via our associations and memories with work that ranges from whimsical to unsettling. He has exhibited widely in India as well as abroad and has also held fellowships at the Kanoria Centre for Art, CEPT, Ahmedabad, and the Inlaks Foundation. He was a faculty member at KRVIA till 2020 and is currently teaching at School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai.

Parul Gupta is a visual artist based in Delhi, NCR. She works around the subject of architectural spaces as a generator of perceptual experiences. Her spatial interventions change our perception of each individual space as well as our perception of ourselves in that space. Her work on paper takes on a similar enquiry around discerning the inhabited world and integrating geometrical forms, light, and movement. After graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 2011, Parul has regularly exhibited her work in galleries and project spaces. She was part of institutional projects at Devi Art Foundation, Instituto Cervantes and Jawahar Kala Kendra. Her work is featured in print publications like Marg and FUKT, and in numerous private and institutional collections including Devi Art Foundation and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.

Prasad Shetty is an urbanist based in Mumbai. He has studied architecture (B-Arch, KRVIA, Mumbai University) and urban management (MA-Urban Management, Institute for Housing & Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam, the Netherlands). He is one of the founder members of the School of Environment and Architecture and currently works at the school as Professor and Dean. He is also a founder member of Bard Studio and the Collective Research Initiative Trust. His work involves research and teaching on contemporary Indian urbanism with specific focus on architecture; cultural aspects of urban economy and property; housing; and entrepreneurial practices. He has a wide range of publications, and has exhibited his works / delivered lectures around the world.

Sara M. Anwar is an architect, researcher, and design communications strategist. Her passion lies in building mentorship within architecture, supporting women in the discipline, and facilitating networks of research, communication, and knowledge exchange. Cornell Architecture alum (B’Arch ’02), Anwar is the founder and director of ARCHITECTEM a Dubai-based platform promoting research and dialogue in architecture in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa. Dissecting organic informal networks within urban environments has been a focus of her research based projects. She recently presented ‘Mapping Festivities’ as Curator of the National Pavilion of Pakistan at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. Before Mapping Festivities, Anwar presented Anatomy of Informality at the Egypt Pavilion

at Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice. Mapping Festivity is a continuation of this journey of exploring intersecting narratives, to reveal an authentic condition. A condition that maps the social, cultural, and urban journey of post partition, post colonial Pakistan. It is an exercise in archiving and restitching human narratives from diverse yet seamlessly coexisting pulsating conditions, revealing invisible egalitarian spaces and systems of survival within the city.

Tianying Li is an Assistant Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. She received her Master’s degree from the Cooper Union, and her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University. Her teaching and research revolve around (sur)realistic digital representation and material culture in the age of mass production. Her works have been exhibited at Carnegie Museum of Art, National Building Museum (US), Beijing Design Week, PMQ (HK), CMU, Pratt, The Cooper Union, in addition to multiple other institutes. She works collaboratively and independently under the authorship of FrankanLisa.

Vastavikta Bhagat is an artist and architect who teaches at the School of Environment and Architecture. Her practice focuses on the spatial and environmental politics surrounding post-intensive landscapes and climate change in Indian cities. She is currently researching a wide range of household experiences and responses to wetness in suburban Mumbai. Drawing on a yearlong Research Associateship at SEA (2018), she is concurrently developing a graphic novel on the contestations surrounding the futures of Goa’s mining landscapes. She was a Field Stations 2019 Fellow (Colombia) under the Wright Ingraham Institute, a Gender Bender 2021 Grantee with the Sandbox Collective and Goethe Institut, Bangalore and has worked with Anupama Kundoo, KRVIA-Design Cell, and Ranjit Sinh Architects.