Farah Alkhoury is an Iraqi architect, researcher, and educator based in New York. Her work deals with environmental, state, and corporate violence as a consequential form of architecture and spatial thinking. Her work unfolds in various mediums including exhibition design, design research, teaching, and advocacy concerned with environmental justice.

Farah contributed to various exhibitions and publications, including “Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines” at the Jewish Museum’24 in New York, and “Xholobeni Yard/OFFPOLINN” for the Venice Architecture Biennale’23. Additionally, she played an integral role in the Sharjah Architecture Triennale’s inaugural exhibition, through her role in research, coordination, and design. She collaborated on numerous research and exhibition projects including with Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, N H D M Architects, Curator Mark Wasiuta, and Studio Joseph (New York).

Farah actively engages in teaching and design research, she served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Research Scholar at GSAPP, Columbia University, and as a lecturer in design at Rutgers University.
She is the recipient of the Incubator Prize’24, the Honors Award for Excellence in Advanced Architectural Design, and the William Kinne fellowship from GSAPP Columbia. She was also nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.

She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Sharjah and a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, GSAPP.

Iyad Abou Gaida is a Lebanese farmer, ecological designer, architect, and researcher who has worked in offices in Tokyo, Beirut, and New York. Iyad’s research engages ecologies of human and non-human beings to address aesthetic and socio-political urgencies for architecture and urbanism across dimensions and geographies. Iyad received his B.Arch from Lebanese American University and his M.S Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia GSAPP.

Tigran Kostandyan is an Armenian architect, designer, researcher and educator based in New York. His work delves into the intersection of supply chains, architecture, and environmental through cinematography, model-making, algorithms, and storytelling.

Tigran is a registered architects in NY, extensive experience in architecture and exhibition design, having worked in New York, Sharjah (SAF ) , and Dubai .