Camillo Boano is Professor of Urban Design and Critical Theory at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (University College London) and professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche, Territorio del Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is Co- Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. Camillo’s research has centred on the complex encounters between critical theory, radical philosophy and urban design processes, specifically engaging with informal urbanizations, urban collective actions, as well as crisis-generated urbanisms with specific focus on migration, borders and the urban project. He is working on a series of interconnected research projects in Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East on urban infrastructures, habitability and city-wide upgrade. He had worked in several interconnected research and consultancies on camps, cities and migrations entanglements and in Post conflict and Recovery operations in Asia, Middle East and the Balkans.

Robert de Paauw is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Urbanism, Territorial Planning, and Landscape Architecture at the School of Architecture of Barcelona at the UPC. He has recently been designated as an expert evaluator consultant at the European Community Horizon Program-Solutions for the sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and accessible regeneration of neighbourhoods enabling low carbon footprint lifestyles and businesses (Built4People). His professional career is carried out over 25 years in the public sector through interventions in the field of landscape urbanism, urban planning, and sustainable community development. Dealing with projects related to climate change adaptation, urban resilience, and social inclusiveness strategies, he has worked in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Leading the DE PAAUW ARCHITECTURE team, with offices in Barcelona and São Paulo, they are currently busy with challenges such as boosting active mobility civic axes on conventional roads or dealing with sustainable urban growth in the delta´s sensitive areas, both in Barcelona´s area. Also fostering solutions for flood mitigation issues in Burundi or planning an eco-town masterplan in China. Some of their projects have been recognized with the 2021 Urbanism, Urban Planning and City Award of the IAB-Institute of Architects (northern area), the 2019 FAD City and Landscape Award, the 7th European Public Space Award in 2012, as well as selected for the Venice Architecture Biennale International Exhibition at the Pavilion of Spain in 2016 and the Pavilion of Brazil in 2018.