Vanessa Andreotti

Professor & Dean, Faculty of Education
University of Victoria 

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education. Vanessa has more than 100 published articles and has worked extensively across sectors internationally in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems and the climate and nature emergency. Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism and one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective  (decolonialfutures.net).
 

Jose Torero Cullen

Professor
   University College London

Professor José L. Torero is Professor Civil Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. He works in the field of fire safety where he specializes in complex environments such as novel architectures, new construction materials, critical infrastructure, aircraft and spacecraft. José is a Chartered Engineer (UK) and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. 

Farshid Moussavi

Professor, Harvard GSD 
Founder, Farshid Moussavi Architecture

Farshid Moussavi OBE RA, is an architect, founder of Farshid Moussavi Architecture and Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She was previously co-founder of Foreign Office Architects (FOA). Moussavi has served as a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the London Architecture Foundation, and the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Currently she is a trustee of the Norman Foster Foundation London and New Architecture Writers (NAW), as well as one of the London Mayor's 42 Design Advocates.  She is the author of four critically acclaimed books.

Raffaele Ardito

Professor
Polytechnic University of Milan

Raffaele Ardito is currently an Associate Professor in structural mechanics with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include the structural retrofit of large abandoned buildings and the theoretical, computational, and experimental mechanics of metamaterials and smart materials.

Paul Astle

Paul is a Chartered Structural Engineer with 15 years’ experience in structural design and holds master’s degrees in Civil Engineering and Engineering for Sustainable Development. Paul has worked on a diverse range of buildings and has contributed to many industry guidance documents and presented widely on decarbonisation. Paul is a passionate advocate for using decarbonisation as a gateway to address wider sustainability issues including resource depletion, biodiversity loss and waste reduction.

Chiara Luzzana 

President & CEO
  Chiara Luzzana Soundscape S.r.l.

Chiara Luzzana is the entrepreneur of sound. Sound artist, Sound designer and a Soundtrack's Composer. She is the CEO of Chiara Luzzana Soundscape S.r.l. the first studio where a Brand becomes a soundtrack starting from its pure noise. She’s the creator of the THE SOUND OF CITY® project.