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K.B. Izac Tsai is a designer, an architect, an artist, a researcher, a historian, a theorist, a radio programme producer and presenter. He finished his RIBA part I and II at the AA and had also completed his Bachelors in Mass Communications and Masters in Marketing in Canada and the United States. His PhD at the Architectural Association focuses in economic and maritime history of cities in the Far East and Southeast Asia. He has competed and shortlisted in design competitions, and has been invited to present his work at London School of Economics, University of Norwich and University of Denver. He has taught at Leeds School of Architecture and University of Norwich. He is currently developing a multi-disciplinary platform for art, architecture, design, research and media that bridges knowledge from different backgrounds to experiment new possibilities. He is the founder of design studio KBITA and co-founder of research collectives Translocality.

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Doreen Bernath is an architect and a theorist trained at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association (AA). She is currently Executive Editor of The Journal of Architecture, trustee of the Society of Architectural Historian Great Britain, and a co-founder of research collectives ThisThingCalledTheory and Translocality. In parallel to teaching widely at different institutions, she teaches at the AA across PhD and postgraduate programmes and her publications have appeared internationally. She was a founding-director of the interdisciplinary platform DEZACT and AAVS Uncommon Walks ‘Pedestric Radicals’, as well as co-leader of MArch research and design studio Cinematic Commons at Leeds School of Architecture.

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Teresa Stoppani is Professor of Architecture and Director of Architecture and Interior Design at Norwich University of the Arts. An architect and architectural theorist, Teresa studied Architecture at the IUAV University of Venice and received a PhD in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Florence. She has taught at the IUAV, the University of Greenwich, UT Sydney, and Leeds Beckett University where she was the Head of the School of Architecture. She is a member of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Steering Group, an editor of the RIBA’s Journal of Architecture, and co-founder of the international research collective ThisThingCalledTheory, for which she has co-edited the book This Thing Called Theory. Her work focuses on the relationship between architecture theory and the design process, and on the influence of other spatial and critical practices on the specifically architectural.