Neil Leach is a professor of architecture and licensed architect from the UK. He currently directs the Doctor of Design program at FIU, and has also taught at other leading schools, including AA, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, IaaC and SCI-Arc. He is the co-founder of DigitalFUTURES, a former researcher for NASA developing 3D printing technologies for the Moon and Mars, and an academician within the Academy of Europe. He has published over 40 books on architectural theory and digital practice published in 8 different languages. His most recent books include Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Machine Hallucinations: Architecture and AI (Wiley, 2022)

Maria Kuptsova is an artist, architect and researcher. In her practice she explores synthetic forms of intelligence and aesthetics, creating cyborganic objects, systems, processes and interfaces. Maria’s PhD research points towards the possibility of developing a bio-machinic design technic with an aim to impart biological intelligence into inorganic objects and synthetic environments. Maria developed her interest in bio-computation in a period when she was based in Barcelona. While conducting her studies at IAAC (Barcelona) she has been exploring on practice methods of material computation and bio-digital fabrication. This investigation is carried forward through her independent artistic projects, architectural practice in collaboration with ecoLogicStudio in London, as well as research and academic experience at the University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) the Bartlett School of Architecture (London, UK), Digital Future Colloquium (International), among other institutions.

Marcelo Payssé is an Architect and Professor. Diplomated in “Education, Images and Media in Digital Culture”. He was consultant and Jury Member in many regional and international contests. Until 2020, he was Full Professor at the Department for Design and Computer Science (DepInfo) and from 2020 to 2022, at the Center for Digital Integration (CID) in the School of Architecture, Design and urbanism (FADU/UDELAR). Awards: 2019 Montagu Prize; SIGRADI-ECAADE. 2007 First Prize. Research Project. Arquisur.

Mane Tatulyan is a writer, philosopher, and designer with a degree in Arts and Design [UADE-ARG], a Master’s in Applied Philosophy [UAB-ES], and a Ph.D. in Philosophy [UAB-ES]. She is the author of the book “The Radical Singularity” and currently dedicates herself to various interdisciplinary studies on Subjectivity, Post-humanism, and Modernity. Her thinking unfolds as a systematic re-reading of the Modern Project, with a profound hermeneutics of Subjectivity, and under a fundamental premise: that the future should not design humans, but rather, we should design a more human future.

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