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Nicola Twilley became co-director of Studio-X New York in August 2011. She is also the author of the blog Edible Geography, co-founder of the Foodprint Project and Future Plural, the former Food Editor at GOOD magazine, and a freelance writer, designer, and curator with exhibitions installed at Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, and work published in The Atlantic, Volume, Domus,Landscape Architecture, The Architects' Newspaper, Dwell,Business Insider, and Wired UK.

Studio-X New York
180 Varick Street, Suite 1610
New York, New York 10014
U.S.A.

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Pedro Rivera is the Director of Studio-X Rio. He has both a MS in Urban Design and a BA in Architecture and Urbanism from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He teaches a studio at PUC-Rio and runs the office RUA Arquitetos.

Praça Tiradentes, 48
Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 20060-070
Brazil

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Nora Akawi holds a BArch from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and a MS in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture from GSAPP. Her research focus is on the political role of the (digital) collective archive in the visualization of the Palestinian spatial narrative and in imagining alternative spatial and political organization. She returned to Jerusalem in October 2011 to teach in the Department of Architecture at Bezalel. She is a co-founding partner at Al-Ma'mal Lab, a collaborative studio and gallery space shared by a group of young designers, visual artists and filmmakers in the Old City of Jerusalem. Nora became the Amman Lab Curator in July 2012.

5 Moh'd Al Sa'd Al-Batayneh Street
King Hussein Park
P.O. Box 144706
Amman 11814
Jordan

Maria Augusta Bueno has a BA degree in Architecture and Planning from Mackenzie University in São Paulo (1997) and has graduated with honors in 2000 from the Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design program at Columbia University. She collaborated as a researcher and video maker for the American Section of the “Mutations” Exhibition that was held in Bourdeaux, France and Tokyo, Japan, which was also published on the book “Mutations” edited by Actar Publishers. She was part of architect’s team at Davis Brody Bond Aedas in NY and São Paulo from 2001 until 2007 working in urban design, housing, institutional and industrial projects in the U.S., Kazakhstan and Brazil. In 2008 she co‐founded the architecture practice Estudio Maac with Andrea Castanheira and has been a guest teacher at Escola da Cidade in São Paulo since then. In 2010 she became the director of São Paulo Lab.

M2, Shibaura House
3-15-4 Shibaura Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-0023
Japan

Daisuke Hirose graduated from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Science.  After working with Kengo Kuma, he enrolled in GSAPP’s Advanced Architectural Design Program where he studied with Ed Keller, Evan Douglis and Carl Chu. In 2003, he established his design office in Tokyo, Archicomplex, while simultaneously teaching at the Tokyo University of Science, Kyoto University of Arts and Design, and the University of Tokyo. Since then he has consulted for major industries such as SUBARU Motors and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. on their global design strategy for show stands in Paris, Geneva, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo. He won various awards, both domestic and international, including the Beijing Biennale 2008, Bentley Design 2011, JID Space 2012, Fujitsu Design Competition 2012, Colloquium Structure 2012, and the Obuse Future Urban Design Competition Grand Prix 2012 with his students at Tokyo University of Science and Studio-X Tokyo Team Kudos.