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NINA BOYD 
Nina Boyd is an architectur-
al graduate who completed 
her Master of Architecture 
(Prof ) at Victoria University 
Wellington in 2017. Since 
graduating she has worked 
as a tutor at the Victoria 
University School of 
Architecture and is work-
ing with Toi Āria Design for 
Public Good and Massey 
University College of Creative 
Arts on community engage-
ment projects.

KONRAD BUHAGIAR 
Konrad Buhagiar obtained 
a degree in Architecture 
and Civil Engineering at the 
University of Malta followed 
by a post-graduate degree 
in Studio e Restauro dei 
Monumenti at the Universita’ 
di Roma, ”La Sapienza”. He 
is a founding partner of AP 
Valletta and Senior Visiting 
Lecturer at the University 
of Malta.  He has lectured 
in several countries abroad 
and is a member of the Board 
of Experts of the European 
Urban Space Prize. He is 
co-editor of The Founding 
Myths of Architecture 
(forthcoming).

JOHN DIXON HUNT 
John Dixon Hunt is Professor 
Emeritus of the History and 
Theory of Landscape at the 
University of Pennsylvania. 
He has written over a dozen 
books on landscapes, and a 
biography of John Ruskin in 
1982, The Wider Sea. His book 
on Ruskin’s watercolours will 
be published early in 2020  by 
Reaktion Books.

ANDREW DOUGLAS 
Andrew Douglas is a sen-
ior lecturer in theory and 
design at the School of 
Architecture and Urban 
Planning, where is also the 
current Associate Director of 
Design. He previously taught 
spatial design at the School 
of Art + Design at Auckland 
University of Technology. He 
is a member of the TurnSpace 
Collective, and an executive 
editor of Interstices: Journal 
of Architecture and Related 
Arts. He currently chairs 
the enigma: he aupiki Trust, 
and is a trustee on the Greg 
Bowron Memorial Trust. He 
has practiced architecture in 
both Auckland and London 
and completed postgraduate 
studies at the University of 
Auckland and Goldsmiths, 
University of London. His 
research ranges across fields 
associated with urban and 
Greek philosophy and history, 
aspects of Continental philos-
ophy—particularly the work 
of Gilles Deleuze and Felix 
Guattari—critical perspec-
tives on socio-spatial practice, 
and gender and sexuality as 
these pertain to literature, 
cinema and the urban imag-
inary. His doctoral research 
investigated observation 
and reflectivity in modernity 
via accounts of walking in 
European contexts since the 
seventeenth century. His 
current research addresses 
the role of affect in emerging 

forms of publicness and 
governance, colonial-urban 
formations in Aotearoa New 
Zealand, and philosophies of 
image and imagination.

CARL DOUGLAS 
Carl Douglas is the 
Curriculum Leader for 
Spatial Design at Auckland 
University of Technology, 
Auckland. His research 
circulates around two main 
themes: unprofessional space 
(informal, ad-hoc, illicit, and 
amateur space-making); and 
procedural design techniques 
(cartography, design 
computation, abstraction, 
drawing, and intuition). 
In previous work he has 
examined infrastructure 
as a determinant of public 
space, made a case study 
of urban transformations 
of revolutionary Paris, and 
researched archaeological 
sites as scenes of architectural 
production. Current research 
attends to design strategies for 
climate change and sea-level 
rise, and the construction of 
unorthodox cartographies.

GUILLAUME DREYFUSS
Guillaume Dreyfuss is 
Director of Research at 
Architecture Project (AP). 
Guillaume is an art histori-
an and obtained an MSc in 
Sustainable Heritage from 
UCL (University College 
London). He is co-editor 
of A Printed Thing (2012), 
and The Founding Myths of 
Architecture (forthcoming), 
and is the author of various 
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MARK JACKSON 
Mark Jackson is Associate 
Professor of Design in the 
School of Art and Design, 
Faculty of Design and Creative 
Technologies, Auckland 
University of Technology 
(AUT). He received his 
PhD from the University 
of Sydney in the discipline 
of architecture in the early 
1990s and has taught at the 
University of Sydney, the 
University of Adelaide and 
at AUT. His research engages 
the tradition of Continental 
Philosophy, especially the 
works of Heidegger, Foucault, 
Derrida and Agamben. He 
has published in the fields 
of architecture, landscape 
architecture, design cultures, 
film-philosophy, and the 
visual arts and has produced 
a number of film and video 
works.

EPHRAIM JORIS 
Ephraim Joris is a Design 
Director at AP Valletta and a 
faculty member at KU Leuven 
and Piet Zwart Institute in 
Rotterdam. His research looks 
at the idea of an architectural 
phenomenology recasting 
history as the experiential 
content of speculative archi-
tecture. This research stands 
at the basis of his design work 
at AP as much as his design 
work stands at the basis of his 
research. He contributed as 
a researcher and teacher to 
various institutions such as 
RMIT, Syracuse University, 
Westminster University and 
Brighton University. He has 
been a program director 
at UCA in Canterbury and 
KU Leuven and is a current 
member of The Mediated City 
Research Team at University 
College London. He is the 
author of various internation-
al publications and academic 
papers.

ADRIAN LO
Adrian Lo completed his 
PhD in Architecture at the 
University of Auckland, 
New Zealand, where he also 
completed his bachelor’s 
degree. His research focuses 
on the processes and issues 
relating to space making, 
particularly the condition of 
interstitiality and in-between 
spaces in architecture and 
urbanism, such as that 
of Peter Eisenman, Aires 
Mateus, and urbanscapes in 
Hong Kong and Kathmandu. 
He has practiced in Hong 
Kong and Australia, and 
has held teaching positions 
in New Zealand and Nepal, 
specialising in architectural 
and urban design, history-
theory, and final year theses. 

JULES MOLONEY 
Jules Moloney is Associate 
Dean Research and 
Innovation, School of Design, 
RMIT University, Australia. 
He has held positions at 
the Victoria University of 
Wellington, the University of 
Melbourne and the University 
of Auckland. His academic 
career was preceded by a 
decade of architectural prac-
tice in the United Kingdom. 
The distinctive approach he 
brings to his research and 
teaching is based on expertise 
in digital technology and the 
importance of grounding 
computational design within 
the wider context of theory 
and practice. 

FELIPE LANUZA RILLING 

Felipe Lanuza Rilling is 
an architect trained at the 
University of Chile, and 
obtained his Master in 
Architecture at the Catholic 
University of Chile. He holds 
a PhD in Architectural Design 
from the Bartlett School of 
Architecture, UCL. Through 

his investigations on absence, 
he explores processes of 
design and representation 
as a way of prompting new 
understandings and alterna-
tive interventions in the built 
environment. He has taught 
and exhibited internationally. 
He is a Senior Associate at 
Urban Transcripts, co-found-
er of DLA Scan / Devilat 
+ Lanuza Architects, and 
currently a post-doctoral 
researcher at the UCL Urban 
Laboratory/Bartlett School of 
Architecture.

NICOLA SHORT
Nicola Short is a heritage 
consultant and lecturers in 
heritage and spatial environ-
ments at the School of Art + 
Design at Auckland University 
of Technology. With over 
30 years’ experience in the 
heritage and GLAM sector she 
has held a range of roles in 
museums and local govern-
ment, both in New Zealand 
and overseas including; 
exhibition development 
Australian Museum, Head 
Public Programmes, Museum 
of Transport and Technology, 
Auckland; Heritage Manager, 
Auckland City Council, and a 
secondment to Christchurch 
City Centre as Lead Heritage 
Advisor, master planning 
team post the 2011 earth-
quakes. She is a member 
and has sat on the board of 
the International Council on 
Monuments and Sites, New 
Zealand chapter. Nicola has a 
particular interest in herit-
age and social equity with a 
focus on heritage landscapes, 
strategic planning, public 
policy and cultural theory. 
Her research interests include 
decolonisation and time, 
feminist theory, cartography 
and critical heritage theory 
with a particular focus on 
heritage landscape values 
and ontologies. She has 
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from Auckland University 
and a Masters from Sydney 
University in Museum Studies 
and Heritage Management. 
She is published in the areas 
of; museum management 
and cultural capital, herit-
age landscape studies and 
#protectihumatao. She is a 
member of Save Our Unique 
Landscape (SOUL) and has 
written extensively on the role 
of heritage legislation and 
cultural heritage landscapes 
for the campaign. She is 
currently enrolling in a PhD 
at  the School of Architecture 
and Planning, Auckland 
University. 

JAN SMITHERAM 
Jan Smitheram is a senior 
lecturer in the School of 
Architecture at Victoria 
University of Wellington, 
where she teaches under-
graduate and postgraduate 
students. Her current research 
project involves working 
on a URF funded project 
researching how architects 
think about the body when 
they design. Papers currently 
under preparation address 
questions of architectural rep-
resentation, performativity, 
occupation and affect. 

SIMON TWOSE 
Simon Twose is an archi-
tect and senior lecturer at 
the School of Architecture, 
Victoria University of 
Wellington, New Zealand.
His work focuses on drawing, 
particularly in the territories 
between art and architec-
ture practices. Twose has 
published and exhibited 
widely, including invited 
contributions to five Venice 
Architecture Biennales.

STEPAN VANEYAN
Stepan Vaneyan was born 
in 1964 in Moscow, where 
he currently resides. After 
graduating from the Moscow 
Lomonosov State University 
(1989), he worked at the 
Moscow State Museum of 
Fine Arts. His PhD thesis 
on Hans Sedlmayr, and his 
Doctoral dissertation was 
dedicated to the problems of 
the iconography of architec-
ture. Since 1998, Vaneyan has 
been a professor of art history 
and theory at the Faculty of 
History in the Moscow State 
University. He teaches courses 
on art theory, methodologies 
of art history, history of west-
ern art criticism, psychology 
of art and architectural theory 
of the 20th century. He is 
also a senior researcher at the 
Research Institute of Theory 
and History of Fine Arts in the 
Russian Academy of Arts and 
a lead researcher at the State 
Institute for Art Studies.