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  1. Dione Lee

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    Dione Lee is a Singaporean designer and artist based in New York City. She designs experiences with the team at HUSH, where her work focuses on translating brands and stories into holistic environments, interfaces, and interactions. She has worked across commercial and cross-disciplinary projects spanning print, digital, and experiential media. Her practice is rooted in an interest in behavioral psychology and computer-mediated systems, using data, interaction design, and spatial storytelling to shape how people move, feel, and make decisions within designed environments.

  2. Benjamin Meade

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    Benjamin Meade is a Senior Design Director at Alloy Development, an architecture and development firm located in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Meade challenges the architecture and real estate disciplines by questioning existing practices and proposing new ways to benefit the social and built environment. Benjamin has been a part of the team since 2012, leading the design effort in the architectural, visual, and marketing departments.

  3. Charlotte Wessell

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    Charlotte Wessell is a strategic advancement, governance, and communications professional with extensive experience supporting mission-driven organizations and academic institutions. She is currently the Director of Development at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she leads advancement efforts in support of the school’s academic mission and strategic priorities.

    Previously, she spent nearly a decade at The Cooper Union, finishing her time as the Director of the Office of the President and Board Relations, where she managed the operations and strategic priorities for the President’s Office, Cabinet, and governing Board. Charlotte holds a master’s degree in Public History and worked in historic preservation advocacy prior to her career in higher education. She serves as the President of the Cobble Hill Playschool Board of Directors and lives in Carroll Gardens with her family.

  4. Celia Chaussabel

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    Celia Chaussabel is an architect and educator currently based in Buffalo, New York, where she is the Reyner Banham Teaching Fellow at University at Buffalo. Her creative practice is focused on how narratives and aesthetics shape cultural perceptions of construction waste. Celia’s work speculates on what it would mean for the architectural profession to consider the sourcing, maintenance, and re-circulation of materials as critical design work. She designs architecture, furniture, exhibitions, video games, animations, and other mediums that bring awareness of the life cycles of the materials that make up the built environment.

    Celia is also co-founder of NOT NOT, a design practice exploring overlooked dimensions of architecture as sites for political and creative inquiry. NOT NOT projects often begin with constraints such as construction debris, material temporality, maintenance, and zoning loopholes to investigate cultural aesthetics and potential. NOT NOT’s design work has been exhibited internationally, including the Venice Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, Salone del Mobile in Milan, and Princeton School of Architecture.

    Celia previously worked at Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis as a designer and researcher on the Manual of Biogenic House Sections (ORO Editions, 2022) and at Bellastock in Paris and Rotor in Brussels on research around material reuse. She holds a graduate degree from MIT (SMArchS 2025) and is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University (B.Arch 2019). She has previously taught at MIT and Tecnologico de Monterrey.

  5. Ekin Bilal

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    Ekin Bilal is a researcher and designer based in New York City. His work investigates how maintenance, material circulation, and back-of-house infrastructures shape the life of buildings and cities. Through architectural design and experimental representation, he explores the political and creative potential of overlooked systems—zoning loopholes, informal repairs, deconstruction practices, and the everyday labor that sustains the built environment. Prior to teaching, Ekin worked with public library systems on community-driven planning efforts and has held worked with MIT’s Urban Risk Lab, Bureau Spectacular, and New Affiliates amongst others. He holds an SMArchS from MIT (2024) and a B.Arch from Cornell University (2020).

  6. Taylor Loutsis

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    Taylor Loutsis is the creative director and founder of Studio Loutsis and the art director of AN Interior. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of branding, image-making, and the built environment, he brings together extraordinary creative talent and leads interdisciplinary teams that reimagine how visuals, spaces, and stories come to life.

    His work with leading studios, including 2×4 and Pentagram, combined with global experience spanning Germany, New York, Singapore, and San Francisco gives him a broad perspective on design’s role in shaping human experience. Taylor has partnered with clients such as Apple, Arc’teryx, REX, Prada, Brown University, National Sawdust, and Snøhetta, always striving to create work with clarity and impact. He has also led initiatives with the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD), advancing how signage, exhibition, and environmental design engage public life.

    Taylor holds a BSD in Graphic Design from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, teaches at Parsons, and serves as a visiting critic at SVA, Parsons, Pratt, and Rutgers.

  9. Jerome Haferd

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    Jerome W Haferd is a licensed architect, public artist, and educator based in Harlem, NYC. He is principal of the award winning JEROME HAFERD Studio. Haferd is assistant professor of architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture where he co-directs the new Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator. He is a 2025 United States Artist Fellow. Haferd serves on the Board of Directors of The Architectural League of New York.

    Jerome Haferd Studio, D.P.C. critically engages built environment projects at the intersection of preservation and design, often looking to marginalized histories to unlock a new imaginary for architecture, art, and cultural infrastructure. Haferd and his team’s work on complex sites includes collaborations with the Harlem African Burial Ground, NYCHA, The Park Avenue Armory, and the National Black Theatre. Haferd was lead architect and designer for the 2023-24 Culture, Creativity, and Care Initiative with the Mellon Foundation and Harlem Grown. The studio is a first prize recipient for the International Africatown Design Competition and is working on a permanent public artwork and plaza for the East River Esplanade. Jerome Haferd Studio exhibited in the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. JHS has been commissioned alongside AYON Studio to reimagine the historic Amsterdam News Headquarters in Harlem.

  10. Paula Vilaplana

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    Paula Vilaplana de Miguel is a curator, designer, and scholar based in New York. Her work focuses on exhibition spaces and cultural initiatives, with an emphasis on media, technology, and bodily practices.

    She currently holds a Curatorial Associate position at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and teaches at Syracuse University. Previous roles include serving as Assistant Director of Exhibitions at Columbia University GSAPP and The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, a researcher at Performa and a lecturer at The New School Parsons, Columbia University, and Bard College.

    Paula Vilaplana has developed projects for institutions such as the Shanghai Art Biennial, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Venice Architecture Biennial, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Princeton University, Triennale Milano, and Ca2M among others. Her work has been published in MoMA Magazine, New York Review of Architecture, the Invisible Culture Magazine at Rochester University, Arquine, and the Het Nieuwe Instituut and her projects have been featured in the press internationally. She has developed visual strategies for Columbia University, the XIII Shanghai Art Biennial and Spore Initiative in Berlin. Her research has been sponsored by MoMA, the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, and La Caixa Foundation among others.