Farah Alkhoury (she/her) is an Iraqi architect, researcher, and educator based in New York. She is an architecture fellow at Bard College, where she is developing the project Occupied Ecologies: Architecture of Toxic Proliferation, which attends to the presence of military toxicity that remains embedded in the soil, water, and air. She previously taught at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She holds a bachelor’s in architecture from the American University of Sharjah and a master’s in advanced architectural design from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (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 .

Andrea Molina Cuadro is an architect, researcher and educator at the intersection of design, art, and environmental humanities. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Previously, she served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University, and as a Fellow at Storefront for Art and Architecture. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the Mutant Institute for Environmental Narratives (IMNA) in Matadero Madrid and has worked as an architect at firms such as Estudio Herreros and Moneo Brock, both based in Madrid.

Andrea has been awarded The Graham Foundation Grant for Individuals and a La Caixa Fellowship, among other recognitions. She holds an M.S. in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture from Columbia University and a Master of Architecture (MAch) from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM).