Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti is Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the founder and director of Supernormal, a design studio based in Cambridge, MA. Her research, practice, and teaching focus on changing definitions and modes of design practice in the built environment.
Jacob Reidel examines and advances the purpose, value, and potential of architectural practice. His work—spanning practice, research, publication, and teaching—is grounded in the conviction that while architecture and the people who create physical spaces have existed for millennia, the practice and the profession of architecture are comparatively new and unstable frameworks, subject to reconsideration and redesign. He is Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is a licensed architect in New York where he co-chairs the AIA New York Future of Practice Committee, and is co-founder and editor of CLOG.
Tyler Mincey is cofounder and General Partner at Baukunst, a collective of creative technologists building companies at the frontiers of technology and design. He’s investing out of a $100 million pre-seed stage venture fund helping exceptional entrepreneurs advance the art of building. Previously he was an engineering leader at Apple developing the first iPhone and many generations of iPods, partner at digital product studio Fictive Kin, vice president of product at Pearl Automation, a venture backed company in the automotive
Llisa Demetrios is the granddaughter of Ray and Charles Eames and chief curator of the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, home of the Eames Ranch and Eames Archives. Llisa is working to catalog and preserve the 40,000+ piece collection while also making it accessible to other institutions and the public through programming, tours, online exhibitions, loans, and publications to inspire the next generation of designers.
Trent Still is an architect-trained strategist and technologist who serves as Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Strategy at the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity. Previously, at Autodesk Research, Trent worked at the intersection of design and architecture industry-futures programs that produced generative-design toolsets for space exploration with JPL and NASA and 3D-printed composite structures for hypercars and next-generation buildings. He is also the founder and chief product officer of Lahoma, a San Francisco–based furniture startup developing advanced manufacturing methods.
Christina Segni studied architecture in Rome and Madrid. She moved to London in 2000 after completing her studies and joined Foster + Partners in 2003. She was initially involved in the Milan Fair Competition, and has led competition winning teams and designed luxury resorts in Brazil, Spain and Italy. From 2009 she was part of the Apple Park design team which completed in 2018. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the AJ's Women in Architecture Award.
Marc Guberman studied architecture at Yale, joining Foster+Partners’ New York studio in 2008. He probes how history, culture, climate, and user needs shape and are shaped by design, deploying technologies for bioclimatically sensitive, human-centric architecture. Off-planet work spans Mars Habitat, ESA’s Lunar Habitat, and, with NASA, Branch Technology, and Stanford, a lunar interior vernacular; he now works on NASA’s Moon-Tower powering the Lunar South Pole. Moving west in 2011, he launched the firm’s San Francisco office, helped deliver Apple Park, became a partner in 2015, opened the Venice-based Los Angeles studio in 2022, and directs cultural, residential, and hospitality projects across California today.
