Sneha Mandhan (she/her) is an urban planner, architect and educator with an interdisciplinary practice in planning, urban design, architecture, design research, and community engagement. She is currently working as an Intermediate Planner – Project Manager at ERA Architects. She has collaborated on a range of city building and engagement projects in the Greater Toronto Area with Monumental Projects, People Design Co-operative, and the Department of Words and Deeds. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, and holds a PhD in Planning from the University of Toronto, a Master in City Planning from MIT, and an undergraduate degree in architecture from India. Her work focuses on unearthing and incorporating culture into the planning and design of cities. For her PhD dissertation, she studied how municipal cultural and heritage planning practices in Toronto, Brampton and Mississauga respond to ethnic culture through the case study of banquet halls as important sites of cultural celebration for the South Asian diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area.

Paolo Patelli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University, where he investigates the architectural contexts of environmental data within the Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project led by Jussi Parikka. His research uses artistic and collaborative methods to explore intersections between space, society, technology, and the environment. Previously, Paolo was a Research Associate at the Research Center for Material Culture (2020–22) and held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Het Nieuwe Instituut, and the New Museum. He earned his PhD in Architecture and Urban Design from Politecnico di Milano in 2015. He later collaborated with Sciences Po’s SPEAP program and taught at Parsons Paris, Design Academy Eindhoven, and Sandberg Instituut. His work has appeared in exhibitions at MoMA, MAXXI, Het Nieuwe Instituut, and the 16th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. He contributed to the Helsinki Biennial (2023) and Ljubljana's 26th Biennial of Design (BIO26). He has published internationally, including in Design Issues and Visual Studies, and has led workshops at institutions such as ZKM, the Istanbul Design Biennial, and Strelka Institute.

Scott Sorli’s transdisciplinary practice concerns itself with moments when form and matter engage the economic and political forces that produce the city. Activist work includes curating convenience, a window gallery that provided an opening for art that engages, experiments, and takes risks with the architectural, urban, and civic realm; working with the Toronto Public Art Committee at City Hall; chairing the peace sub-group of the Nathan Phillips Square Community Advisory Committee; and currently as president of CUPE 5524 at the University of Waterloo. He has professional degrees in process control engineering and in architecture, as well as a post-grad in design research. His work has been published in Twenty and Change 01: Emerging Toronto Design Practices; the journal Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy; the magazine Horizonte: Angst; and exhibited at the Duderstadt Digital Media Commons: Bad Infinity; Atomic Centre: Total Spectacle; Drone Research Lab: Disposition Matrix and the Albright Knox: GASP!

Fraser McCallum is Project Coordinator at the Blackwood Gallery. In this role, he works primarily on programs outside of the gallery spaces, including offsite exhibitions, public programs, virtual programming, and publications. Fraser is an interdisciplinary artist of settler Euro-Canadian ancestry, whose practice often draws together histories and ongoing sociopolitical conditions through archives, places, and stories. Fraser has held previous roles at Gallery 44 and Art Metropole, and received a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. His work has been exhibited at HKW, Berlin; Sheridan College, Oakville; Modern Fuel, Kingston; and The Art Museum at the University of Toronto. His video works have been screened by the plumb, LIFT, Hamilton Artists Inc., and Trinity Square Video. Fraser’s writing has been published in the Blackwood’s Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge series, PUBLIC, and Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.