The close connection between practice, research and teaching characterises the career of Elli Mosayebi. Since 2004 she has led the Zurich-based architecture office Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin together with Ron Edelaar and Christian Inderbitzin. Through numerous projects won through competitions, housing and urban design assumed a special significance. From 2004 to 2008 she was research assistant at the Chair for Architecture Theory under Prof. Dr. Ákos Moravánszky, in which she completed her doctoral dissertation on the work of the Milanese architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni. From 2012 to 2018 she was Professor for Design and Housing at TU Darmstadt, where she conducted a comparative study of post-war European housing. In 2017, together with Ron Edelaar and Christian Inderbitzin, she led the design studio 'Ruins and Machines' at ETH Zurich. Since 2018 she has held the position of Professor for Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich.
Housing and the change it is currently undergoing are integral aspects of her fields of both practice and research.
David Leech is an architect based in London and Dublin. He established his practice David Leech Architects Ltd. in London in 2018. Prior to this David worked for 13 years at several European offices including Herzog de Meuron, Caruso St John, 6a architects, dePaor architects and Grafton Architects. David was a recipient of an Arts Council Bursary grant in 2018 for research on the idea of a ‘richly economic’ architecture. The practice has won a number of architecture awards for its first works, including the World Architecture Festival’s House Award 2019, the American Institute of Architects UK Young Architect 2019, an Architectural Review ARHouse Award and the Architects Journal AJ Small Projects Award 2019. David was invited to be a participant in the Lisbon Architectural Triennale curated by Eric Lapierre in October 2019. He was selected to exhibit at the Royal Academy in London and at the Alternative Histories exhibition at the IAA in Dublin in 2020.
Lynn Scarff is the Director of the National Museum of Ireland. Her work is embedded in collaborative practice and she is an advocate for the participative museum. Her research focuses on non-formal learning settings and the opportunities presented by museums and cultural spaces to engage young people, with a particular focus on under-represented audiences. She has presented and written on these themes both in education, museum practice and communication journals globally. In 2014, she was appointed Director leading Science Gallery Dublin through a process of organisational change, strategic planning and development, and she was part of the leadership team that established the Global Science Gallery Network. Previously Lynn was engaged in environmental education on the Ballymun Regeneration project and she currently serves on the board of the Rediscovery Centre in Ballymun, Dublin.