Cinema, 2002 | Matthew Gandy Film still Do Buy! 2006 | Omair Barkatulla
ALAN THOMPSON is Chair of Art & Architecture and a design review advisor for the Commission of Architecture and the Built Environment. He is also artist in residence at Earlswood School, Surrey under the Creative Partnerships program. Alan has particular interests in public art, education and emerging digital technologies.
ANIA DABROWSKA is a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths (London) and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (Oxford). Her work has been exhibited in I Palestine (Palestine Gallery, London 2008); NoBody's Perfect (Roncalliplatz, Cologne 2007); and NPG Photography Prize (National Portrait Gallery, London 2007). www.aniadabrowska.co.uk
BEN CAMPKIN is Co-Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/research/architecture/profiles/Campkin.htm
BILL PARRY-DAVIES is a partner in the London solicitor's firm Dowse & Co., and a founder member of the community action company OPEN (Organisation for Promotion of Environmental Needs Limited). www.opendalston.blogspot.com
BRAM THOMAS ARNOLD is an artist and writer. He is one of the co-founders of the Mobile Institute. www.bramthomasarnold.com
CAROLINE KNOWLES is a Professor of Sociology and current head of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths. www.gold.ac.uk/cucr
CATHERINE BOTIBOL is an artist and writer, living in London. She is the Creative Development Director at Pd3, where she develops and produces innovative collaborations between commercial brands and artists.
CATHY WARD is an artist with an interest in anthropology, popular culture and folk traditions. She has photographed much that is overlooked, disappearing, and transitory including fairgrounds, medical collections and graveyards. She has exhibited in the UK and internationally since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1988. www.catharyneward.com | http://wagontrain.org
Wagontrain, 1997 - Present | Cathy Ward
DAVID KENDALL is a photographer and researcher; His practice explores how spatial, economic, design initiatives and participatory practices combine to encourage social and spatial interconnection or conflict in cities. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions, festivals and symposia include: This is Not A Gateway (London 2008), A Line is There to be Broken (London 2008-2010), Diaspora Cities: Urban Mobility and Dwelling (Queen Mary, University of London, London 2009), 4th International Architecture Biennale, Open City: Designing Coexistence (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2009-2010), Photography and The Practice of Walking (Goldsmiths, London 2010), Urban Encounters: City to Sea (a partnership with CUCR, Goldsmiths and Tate Britain, London 2010) and As Found, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen 2010). www.david-kendall.co.uk
DAVID SAN MILLAN DEL RIO is a Spanish former press photographer currently living in London and working on personal projects. www.davidsanmillan.com
ELIZABETH FONSCECA is an environmental engineer and the Environmental Quality Manager for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
GESCHE WURFLE is a visual artist, visual sociologist and urban planner. After having completed her degree in Spatial Planning from the University of Dortmund, Germany, she worked for several years in the field of urban regeneration and public participation. She then moved to London, UK, to study for an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a research associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths. Her work explores transitory spaces in various urban environments, among others the impacts of the 2012 Olympic Games on the Lower Lea Valley. Gesche's work has been exhibited internationally and has recently been published in Younger Than Jesus: The Artist Directory, co-published by the New Museum and Phaidon. www.geschewuerfel.com
HEATHER RING is a landscape architect working in London. She is one of the founders of the Wayward Plant Registry, which provides halfway homes for unwanted plants and the Wayward Land Trust, a global group for neglected and rouge land. www.waywardplants.org
HILARY POWELL is an artist and partner in the film practice Optimistic Productions. Her interdisciplinary practice and research focuses on sites in the urban landscape on the brink of dramatic change. She is currently working on projects exploring the fringes and impacts of the London 2012 Park. www.optimisticproductions.co.uk | http://hilaryspowell.googlepages.com
Film still The Games, 2007 | Federico Figa Talamanca
IAIN AITCH is a London-based author and journalist who has written for the Guardian, Times, FT and Daily Telegraph. He is London contributing editor for US architecture magazine Dwell and also writes about art, travel, eccentricity and identity. His two books are both about Britain and Britishness - the most recent We're British, Innit was published in paperback by Collins in June 2010. www.iainaitch.com | www.britishinnit.com | http://twitter.com/iainaitch
JOANNA ZAWIJA is an independent architect based in Stockholm. She received her professional education in architecture from the KTH in Stockholm and from the Bartlett in London. Joannas work focuses on the construction of place through storytelling; specifically examining narratives of the domestic. By undertaking video, writing and temporal interventions as architectural tools she investigates narrative forms of architectural production. www.joannazawieja.com
JOHN ODUROE a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture, came to London as a 2005 Fulbright Scholar and studies at UCL's Department of Geography. He is the lead environment and installation designer for the New York-based performance company Echo:System.
LEA AYOUB studied political science in Beirut and subsequently urban design and social policy in London. After working for UNESCO, as a consultant in the management and economics of cultural heritage, and with the Professor Robert Tavenor Consultancy, she has joined Alan Baxter & Associates where she is pursuing a career as an urbanist.
LIZ OBI lives in Brixton, South London and is a community activist.
LOUIS MORENO studied Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture and is a PhD student at the UCL Urban Laboratory exploring the relationship between business cycles and the production of the built environment.
MARA FERRARI lives and works between London and Milan. Member of Isola Art Center since 2007, she is currently a PhD candidate at the City Centre, Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London. www.isolartcenter.org
MATTHEW GANDY is a Professor of Geography at University College London and Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab
MATTHEW LEE is the editor of J Magazine, the in-flight magazine for Jazeera Airways, and he has written guides to Dubai for Time Out and Lonely Planet.
OMAIR BARKATULLA is a graphic designer and documentary filmmaker, and graduate of the London College of Communication and Goldsmiths. He currently designs Gulf Air's in-flight magazine and has some film projects in development.
PAUL GOODWIN is a theorist, curator and urban researcher. He is Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths and Cross Cultural Curator at Tate Britain. His current curatorial and research work engages questions of migration, globalisation and the production of alternative urban architectures.
PHIL GUSACK has researched, taught, designed and built projects of all kinds, shapes and sizes in the UK, US, west Indies and East Europe. He is currently developing his winning design for the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital to be built in Johannesburg. www.gusack.com
REHAN JAMIL is a photographer concerned with communities in transition and urban regeneration. His work has been exhibited in ZEROZEROZERO (Whitechapel Gallery, London 1999); Station Gallery (Frankfurt 2000); Common Ground (British Council tour 2003); Changing Faces 02 (2003) and PSP Beautiful Script (2005). www.rehanjamil.co.uk
East End of Islam, 1997-2007 | Rehan Jamil
RICKY BURDETT is Director of LSE Cities, an international research centre at the London School of Economics. He is co-editor with Deyan Sudjic of The Endless City (Phaidon, 2008). www.urban-age.net
SARAH EVANS is a filmmaker, video artist and writer. She teaches video and photography at the London Metropolitan University.
SUKHDEV SANDHU is Director of Asian/Pacific/American Studies at New York University and author of Night Haunts (Verso, 2007) and London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined A City (HarperCollins, 2003)
TRISTAN FENNELL is a photographer based in London. He has exhibited internationally in Dublin, Belfast, London and Tokyo. www.tristanfennell.com
ZUZANA FLASKOVA is a Slovakian freelance writer and curator currently living in London.