Ella Harris is a PhD Candidate in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work investigates the ‘nonlinear’ ways in which space-time is imagined and produced in London’s pop-up culture. In particular, she is interested in the relationships between pop-up’s nonlinear spatiotemporal imaginaries and conditions of urban precarity. She uses interactive documentary as a creative method through which to explore these themes. Ella has published on pop-up’s spatiotemporal imaginaries (Geography Compass, 2015) and immersive pop-up cinema (Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 2016). She has forthcoming publications on Interactive Documentary (Area) and shipping container architectures (Craft Economies).
Sara Heidenreich is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
Arjen van der Heide is a finishing Research Master Student in Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. Previously, he obtained bachelor degrees in economics and political science at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are predominantly in Science and Technology Studies and Economic Sociology.
Eun-sung Kim is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Kyung Hee University. He hold a PhD in STS from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Holtz Center for STS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently interested in exploring a Korean modern soundscape from social, political, and cultural perspective. His papers have appeared in ST&HV, Social Studies of Science, Environmental Politics, Journal of Risk Research, New Genetics and Society, Minerva, etc.
David Moats is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Linköping University, Sweden developing new types of data visualisations which are more exploratory, interpretive and compatible with qualitative, hermeneutic modes of analysis. In his PhD, he developed these techniques using online data and is currently applying these insights to other fields (health data, open city data, census data). David has also consulted on big data related research projects for Goldsmiths, UK and the Open University, UK.
Tahani Nadim completed her doctorate at the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths in 2012. She is currently an International Museum Fellow (funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes) at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Alex Nading is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is a medical anthropologist with research specialties in political ecology and global health. He is the author of Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement (2014, University of California Press).
Susana Nascimento is Policy Analyst at the Foresight and Behavioural Insights Unit of the JRC / Joint Research Centre - European Commission. She is also Associate Researcher at CIES-IUL / Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon, and at CETCOPRA / Centre d’Etude des Techniques des Connaissances et des Pratiques in Université Paris 1 / Panthéon-Sorbonne, and previously Associate Researcher at Vitrivius FabLab-IUL. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Université Paris 1 and a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL. Her work focuses in Science and Technology Studies, with current emphasis on future oriented technology analyses, transdisciplinarity and codesign for policy innovation, citizen engagement and participatory platforms, open science and technology, and new making and collaborative cultures.
Maria João Oliveira is PhD Candidate in Architecture at the ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon and Researcher at Vitruvius FabLab-IUL. She holds a Master in Architecture and Urbanism from ISCTE-IUL. She completed the Advanced Studies Course in Digital Architecture of ISCTE-IUL and FAUP / Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, with an Amorim Isolamentos Scholarship. Her interests are in developing automated design and construction models, innovative materials applications, modular and interactive physical systems, and social and participatory methods for technology development. She works and publishes in biodigital applications in architecture, digital fabrication and open hardware.
Sancho Oliveira is Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Science and Technology of ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon. He is currently Researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications and Vitruvius FabLab-IUL. He holds a PhD in Physics from FCUL / Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon. His research and publication domains are in complex distributed systems, autonomous robotic, evolutionary computation and physical computing.
Alexandra Paio is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon. She is Director and Researcher of Vitruvius FabLab-IUL and Researcher at ISTAR-IUL / Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center. She is Co-Director of Advanced Studies Course in Digital Architecture (ISCTE-IUL+FAUP). She holds a PhD in Urban Design from ISCTE-IUL. She is Researcher at “OIKOnet: A global multidisciplinary network on housing research and learning” (co-financed by European Union). Her main research interests are computational design, digital tools and participatory processes to support the creative design, interactive architecture, and digital fabrication.
Alexandre Pólvora is Researcher at CETCOPRA in Université Paris 1 / Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was previously Associate Researcher at Vitruvius FabLab-IUL and at CIES-IUL / Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology in ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon, and Visiting Scholar at STS Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at Université Paris 1, and PhD Candidate in Sociology at ISCTE-IUL. His research is in STS and Social Studies of Everyday Life, with focus on transdisciplinary, participatory and collaborative, and open models in technology development; science and technology politics and foresight; phenomenological sociologies and urban ethnographies; modern material cultures; environmental and social sustainability; waste, recycling and repair.
Vasco Rato is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon, where he coordinates the scientific area of architecture technology. He is Researcher at Vitruvius FabLab-IUL and ISTAR-IUL / Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center. He holds a degree in Architecture, a MSc. in Construction and a PhD in Civil Engineering (Rehabilitation of the Built Heritage). He has academic and corporate professional experience in materials for architecture and buildings renovation, project management, construction technology and energy efficiency in buildings. Currently, he develops teaching and research activities related to sustainability, energy efficiency, materials, ecology and technology in architecture.
Alix Rufas is a Research Master Student in Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology, at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. She holds a bachelor in Arts and Culture from the same faculty. She is interested in Science and Technology Studies and more particularly in the ways in which scientific expertise and lay knowledge shape each other.
João Pedro Sousa is Researcher at Vitruvius FabLab-IUL. He holds a Master in Architecture at ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon with final report on New Cultural Places. Currently he is attending the Advanced Course Studies in Digital Architecture of ISCTE-IUL and FAUP / Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, with a scholarship from Amorim Isolamentos. His research interests are in additive and subtractive processes in digital fabrication, robotics, physical computation, architectural design and visual arts.
Alexandra Supper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology & Society Studies and academic coordinator of the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, both at Maastricht University. Previously, she was visiting professor of ‘Science-Technology-Society’ at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Maastricht University, and an MA in Sociology from the University of Vienna.
Noelle Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Global Health Studies and Anthropology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Her research explores the simultaneous effects of health sector reform, international development policies, and highly-targeted donor interventions on public health facilities in Tanzania. She is also completing an ethnographic study of international clinical volunteering in Tanzania, attending to the perspectives and practices of both foreign volunteers and hosting health professionals within both public and missionary health facilities.
Bárbara Varela is Researcher at Vitruvius FabLab-IUL and at collaborative projects in schools and social neighborhoods in partnership with the Foundation Aga Khan. She holds a Master in Architecture at ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon. She developed her final Master’s work at FAU-SP / Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in São Paulo Brazil, on the topic of Sustainability in Housing by Joint Effort and Self-Management. She also completed the Advanced Studies Course in Digital Architecture of ISCTE-IUL and FAUP / Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto. Her main research areas relate to low-cost processes in digital fabrication, self-construction, rammed earth and sustainability.