He is currently Artist in Residence at Yale University Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. He is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer whose work engages audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. Miller has collaborated with an array of recording artists, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Metallica, Chuck D from Public Enemy, Steve Reich, and Yoko Ono amongst many others. His 2018 album, DJ Spooky Presents: Phantom Dancehall, debuted at #3 on Billboard Reggae.

His large-scale, multimedia performance pieces include “Rebirth of a Nation,” Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Seoul Counterpoint, written during his 2014 residency at Seoul Institute of the Arts. His multimedia project Sonic Web premiered at San Francisco’s Internet Archive in 2019. He was the inaugural artist-in-residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s The Met Reframed, 2012-2013.

In 2014, he was named National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He produced Pioneers of African American Cinema, a collection of the earliest films made by African American directors, released in 2015. Miller’s artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Miami/Art Basel fair, and many other museums and galleries.

His books include the award-winning Rhythm Science, published by MIT Press in 2004; Sound Unbound, an anthology about digital music and media; The Book of Ice, a visual and acoustic portrait of the Antarctic, and; The Imaginary App, on how apps changed the world. His writing has been published by The Village Voice, The Source, and Artforum, and he was the first founding Executive Editor of Origin Magazine.

He is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and Professor of Practice at NYU. Formerly, he was an architect at the offices of Frank Gehry and I.M. Pei. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships with TED, Moshe Safdie, and Martin Society for Sustainability, MIT.

He was chosen by Wired magazine for "The Smart List” and selected by Rolling Stone for “The 100 People Who Are Changing America”. Mitchell won many honors including; NEA Grant for Arts Projects, Lafarge Holcim Acknowledgement Award, Ove Arup Foundation Grant, ARCHITECT R+D Award, AIA New York Urban Design Merit Award, 1st Place International Architecture Award, Victor Papanek Social Design Award, Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability, Architizer A+ Award, History Channel Infiniti Award for City of the Future, and Time magazine’s Best Invention with MIT Smart Cities. He's featured as “The NOW 99” in Dwell magazine and “50 Under 50 Innovators of the 21st Century” by Images Publishers.

He co-authored four books, “Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities,” “XXL-XS: New Directions in Ecological Design,” “Super Cells: Building with Biology,” and “Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned”. His design work has been exhibited at MoMA and the Venice Biennale. He earned: PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch Columbia University.

Mark Chambers is a nationally recognized leader in environmental policy, a licensed architect, and a tireless advocate for climate justice and public service. With a career rooted in the belief that collective action can drive systemic change, Chambers brings a unique intersection of design, governance, and cultural strategy to the climate movement.

He is currently helping to launch Earth Alliance, a bold new philanthropic studio operating at the nexus of climate and culture. Most recently, he served in the Biden-Harris Administration under a Presidential appointment as the first Senior Director for Building Emissions and Community Resilience at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he shaped national climate policy for the built environment.

Prior to his federal role, Chambers served as Director of Sustainability for both New York City and Washington, D.C., leading transformative efforts to embed climate action across buildings, transportation, food systems, waste management, energy, and public health in two of the most prominent urban centers in the United States.

Chambers has been honored with the Director’s Award from the Smithsonian National Design Awards and the Public Architect Award from the American Institute of Architects. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mitch McEwen joined Princeton’s faculty in 2017 from the University of Michigan’s A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she had been an assistant professor. She is principal of McEwen Studio and co-founder of A(n) Office, an architecture collaborative of studios in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn.

McEwen has received grants from the Graham Foundation, Knight Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts. A(n) Office and McEwen Studio projects have been commissioned by the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Istanbul Design Biennial. McEwen Studio projects in Detroit have produced a series of operations on houses previously owned by the Detroit Land Bank Authority. These include a combined residence and flower incubator for an engineer at 3M, a strategy for 100 houses selected by the City of Detroit to densify the neighborhood of Fitzgerald, and an award-winning repurposing of a balloon-frame house titled House Opera.

She began her work in urban design and architecture at Bernard Tschumi Architects and the New York City Department of City Planning, and she founded the Brooklyn-based nonprofit SUPERFRONT. McEwen earned her master’s degree in architecture at Columbia and bachelor’s degree at Harvard.

Kevin Slavin is an entrepreneur and creative technologist known for pioneering work at the intersection of game design, digital media, and algorithmic systems. He co-founded Area/Code (acquired by Zynga in 2011), where he developed groundbreaking real-world and location-based games for clients like Nike, MTV, and Disney. He later co-founded AFK Labs, designing next-generation responsive environments, including one of the world’s largest sensor meshes.

Kevin has served as the founding Chief Science and Technology Officer at The Shed, and led the Playful Systems group at the MIT Media Lab (2012–2016). He was Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Cooper Union, and a founding editor of the MIT Press Journal of Design and Science.

Slavin’s TED talk, “How Algorithms Shape Our World,” has garnered over 2 million views and positioned him as a leading voice on how algorithms increasingly govern our built and social environments. He’s been a featured speaker at the Royal Society of Art, Aspen Institute, and BBC, among others.

His creative work has been exhibited at the Museum für Moderne Kunst and the Design Museum of London, and he’s been featured in The New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, and BusinessWeek. Slavin has taught at NYU ITP, The Cooper Union, and Fabrica, and holds a BFA from Cooper Union.

He is the Founder and Executive Director CIV:LAB. Simon has worked at the intersection of climate and innovation for over a decade. Initially as an economist then as a builder with endeavors that include one of the first cleantech incubators in the US; the first large scale urban tech collaboratives in NYC and Detroit; and the SCNY Urban Tech Summit at Cornell Tech. Simon's work focuses on models that leverage collaboration to scale solutions tackling climate and urban related problems. Simon teaches Global Entrepreneurship at NYU and on the Future of Cities at Imperial College Business School London.

In 2019, as the Founder of CIV:LAB Simon helped create 'The Grid', a collaborative of 130+ local organizations, including Terreform One, working together innovating in and for cities. Following the Grid's success, CIV:LAB launched Detroit Urban Solutions in 2020. Prior to CIV:LAB, Simon helped launch the Urban Future Lab at NYU and Global Futures Group where he worked as an advisor to the International Trade Administration and US Commerce under Secretary Pritzker.

Sander Dolder is a perceptive, enterprising, & collaborative business development leader with over 10 years of effective results transforming organizations and economies towards a low-carbon future by fostering innovation, growth, and systems change. Formerly, I was a Senior Vice President at the New York City Economic Development Corporation where I design, build, and lead efforts to expand the NYC economy by catalyzing emerging sectors, developing innovation ecosystems, implementing sustainability strategies, and forging public-private partnerships:

Sander is specialized in strategic foresight, innovation ecosystems, sustainability, impact investing, and organization design.

He also has sector experience in urbantech/smart cities, cleantech, telecom, media, emerging tech, chemical, and public sectors. Equally he is skilled in project management, due diligence, urban planning, public policy, and public-private partnerships.

Henry Obispo is a Social-Entrepreneur, creating a sustainable revolution around food and agricultural-technology. He focuses on equitable solutions for the realities of food deserts and food apartheid in urban environments.

After receiving a fully funded scholarship up to Ph.D., from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Henry completed his B.A. from Binghamton University and finished his graduate studies at New York University. 

He is the founder of ReBORN FARMS: agricultural technology based urban farms in the heart of the South Bronx. ReBORN FARMS focuses on rebuilding food systems to create access and equity for populations hyper-locally. He is also the Eco-Gastronomer and Founder of Born Juice, an ecological plant-based, and zero-waste social enterprise, aiming towards a carbon-neutral reality. Born’s main objective is centering hyper-local and circularity as models that truly serve traditionally disinvested and marginalized communities.

Dr. Baz Dreisinger, Senior Advisor for BPI’s Global Initiatives, is the Founding Executive Director of Incarceration Nations Network, a global network that promotes prison reform and justice reimagining worldwide; a Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York; the founder of John Jay’s groundbreaking Prison-to-College Pipeline program, which provides university-level education and reentry assistance to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people throughout New York State; the author of the critically acclaimed book Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World, named a notable book for 2016 by the Washington Post; and the director of Incarceration Nations: A Global Docuseries, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival 2021. A 2018 Global Fulbright Scholar and current Fulbright Scholar Specialist, Dr. Baz speaks regularly about justice issues on international media and in myriad settings around the world, and is also a journalist who writes and produces for such outlets as The New York Times and National Public Radio (NPR).

Dr. Ietef "DJ Cavem" Vita is a Grammy-nominated Music educator, father of eco-hip hop, Co-founder of “Plantega, and a Celebrity Vegan chef with a Ph.D. in urban ecology. Seen in Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary called ( Ice on fire ). This “Thrillist Hero award” winner was mentioned in Forbes, Oprah & People magazine for songs about climate action & Food justice. KONCRETE GARDEN is an interactive organic seed pack Album with the QR code and growing instructions to spur listeners into action in urban farming.

Mary Mattingly is an interdisciplinary artist who cares deeply about water and believes in the power of public art. She founded Swale, an edible landscape on a public barge in New York City. Recent public art projects include Limnal Lacrimosa in Glacier National Park, Public Water with +More Art in New York, Vanishing Point with Metal Southend and Focal Point Gallery in the UK. Mattingly has exhibited sculpture and photography at the Cuenca, Istanbul, and Havana Biennials, as well as institutions such as Storm King, the International Center of Photography, the Seoul Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Palais de Tokyo. She has received grants and foundations such as the James L. Knight Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Art Matters Foundation. Her work has also been featured in publications like Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, Le Monde Magazine, and on Art21. It has been included in books such as the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series titled “Nature”, and Henry Sayre’s “A World of Art”, 8th edition, published by Pearson Education Inc. In 2022, a monograph of her work titled “What Happens After” was published by the Anchorage Museum and Hirmer.

His teaching and research interests lie in the history of science, ecology, environmentalism and design, as well as environmental philosophy. He holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University, and has received research fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Dibner Institute, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

He has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University and University of Oslo. He is the author of Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2001), which investigates the entangled relationship between colonialism, racism and the science of ecology in the British Empire. He is also the author of From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design (Louisiana State University Press, 2010), which explores the intersection of architecture and ecological science, and he is a co-author of Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned (Prestel, 2014), together with Louise Harpman and Mitchell Joachim. Professor Anker's The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World (Cambridge University Press, 2020) explores the history of ecological debates in his country of birth, Norway.

His latest book in Norwegian, Livet er best ute: Friluftslivets historie og filosofi (Kagge Forlag, 2022), celebrates the simple joy of being outside.

Wendy W Fok, trained as an architect (AIA), is the director of design and creative technologist of WE-DESIGNS (Architecture/Creative Strategy) and New Territory (mission-driven real estate venture fund).

Fok manages the client relationships, and onsite construction of architectural and spatial projects. They also provide the project planning and management of design-build work for WE-DESIGNS.

Fok has experience in Product Development and Program Management from Zero to Launch, Design-Build, Manufacturing, Hardware/Software, and Digital Fabrication. Proficient in 3D modelling, innovative material research, design-build, augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (XR) design, and cultural/community engagement that could promote a larger discussion of how consumers interact with products and delivery for architecture, real estate, retail, and innovative business development.

Fellow at the Urban Design Forum (since 2018) and Macdowell (2022), they were featured as Autodesk Remake’s Women in Reality Computing (2017), winner of the Autodesk AiR (2016), Digital Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress (2014/15), ADC Young Guns 11 Award (2013), AIA Dallas Women in Architecture (2013), Perspective 40 under 40 (2011), and Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award (2009).

WE-DESIGNS has been selected by Twenty+Change Emerging Canadian Design Practices (2011). Fok was individually shortlisted for 1 of 13 DX Emerging Talent Awards (2013), and they won Western Living Designer of the Year – Maker Category (2016) across Canada.

Fok holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), obtained their Master of Architecture and Certification of Urban Policy/Planning from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with a Concentration in Economics (Statistics) from Barnard College, Columbia University. Fok is an Associate Professor Adjunct at University of Southern California (USC) School of Architecture and Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Law School.

Mark Shepard is a Professor at the University at Buffalo and holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Architecture and Media Study. He received a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, a Master of Fine Arts in Combined Media from Hunter College, City University of New York, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University.

At the University at Buffalo, Mark directs the Media Arts and Architecture Program (MAAP) and co-directs the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST). His research investigates contemporary entanglements of technology and urban life. He editor of Sentient City: ubiquitous computing, architecture and the future of urban space, published by MIT Press, and co-editor of the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series, published by the Architectural League of New York. In 2009, he curated Toward the Sentient City, an exhibition organized by the Architectural League of New York that critically explored the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing and the city through a series of commissioned site-specific projects distributed throughout New York City. His work has been presented at museums, galleries and festivals internationally, including the 2012 Venice International Architecture Biennial; the 2012 Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF), the 2011 Prix Ars Electronica; the 2009 International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam; LABoral Center for Art + Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain; the Barcelona Design Museum; Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; the Center for Architecture, New York; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, among others. His work has been supported by Creative Capital, The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, where he was a 2011-2012 Fellow. His awards include the George Foster Peabody Award in New Media, the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in the Humanities, and an honorary mention from the Prix Ars Electronica.

Award-winning artist Dr. Sarah Jane Pell is an experienced Occupational Diver, aquatic performer and versitile art and science collaborator. She is leading first generation artist-astronaut crews of the commercial spaceflight era. Her practice aptly begins underwater by connecting with deep ecologies to embody, and critique, the culture of exploration. Artifacts include sculptural, technical, poetic events and immersive media connecting bodies of water to bodies of knowledge and movement. She was awarded Best PhD Art & Science by Leonardo AS, MIT 2007 and TED Fellow 2010 for pioneering Aquabatics. Dr. Pell is an experienced Simulation Astronaut for undersea trials, an Artist-Astronaut Candidate for a suborbital aeronomy mission, and an imagineer for a MoonVillage. She continues to perform expressively and tests novel tools to make art in the field. Her work promotes physical conditioning, creative visualisation and new communication.

In 2016, Dr. Pell was awarded Australia Council Fellow and Gifted Citizen (Highly Commended). Her work is widely exhibited, performed and published. The first artist to graduate from the International Space University and Singularity University, Dr. Pell served as Co-Chair of the European Space Agency (ESA) Topical Team Arts & Science (2011-2014). Bending Horizons 2015-2017 documents her expression during extreme art adventures at altitude testing immersive media. Performing Astronautics 2016-2018 creates new territories for experimental and emerging arts into human extra-terrestrial expression and communication. In 2018, she joined Monash University as an Adjunct Associate Professor across the Faculty of Engineering; Office of the Engineering Dean; Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture; Artist-in-Residence at the Monash Immersive Visualisation Platform. In 2020, she is Co-PI of an Australia Research Council Discovery Project on Aquatic Play, Vice-Chair International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Technical Committee Cultural Utilisation of Space and Aquanaut on a 10-day subsea mission. Pell aims to contribute new knowledge on human behaviours, biosensory media and communication design for extreme performance, and responsible ecological adaptation.

Marcel Botha is an entrepreneur, engineer, architect, and investor. He experiments with simple hardware ideas on the edge between consumer and medical products. Relevant experiments are commercialized. Marcel specializes in guiding product development teams from concept to viable product and is currently locked in a wave of parallel experimenation, feeding off his passion for product acceleration, and digital manufacturing. In 2010 Marcel co-founded Patients Pending Ltd where he developed a groundbreaking diabetes product named Timesulin that helps diabetics manage their insulin compliance. Through his consulting firm 10xBETA, he has helped numerous medical proffesionals test, develop and commercialize products ranging from electronic stethoscopes, colposcopes, to surgical instruments. from 2006 - 2009 Marcel was COO and Director of Design at SNIF Labs (now General Sensing), a MIT Media Lab inspired company developing mesh-networked sensing productsfor commercial and health care applications. In 2005 he was awarded an NSF fellowship. Affiliations include MIT Smart Cities, MIT Mobile Experience Lab, MIT Digital Design and Fabrication Group and the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

Maria Aiolova is a New York–based leader in environmental design, sustainable development and urban resilience. She is the Director of Global Innovation at SJ Group. Formerly, she was the Global Principal of ILAB at AECOM.

Aiolova is also the Sustainability Advisor for COP28 in Dubai, where she developed a comprehensive carbon management framework to shape a lasting sustainability legacy for global climate events. She is the co-founder of Terreform ONE, an award-winning nonprofit focused on preventing planetary extinction through visionary design.

She previously served as the inaugural Arup University Leader in the Americas, led the creation of global sustainability programs for CIEE, and helped raise $45M to launch New Lab in Brooklyn. An inventor with 18 technology patents, she teaches and lectures internationally, with recent roles at Parsons, Cornell, IAAC, and Pratt.

Aiolova holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design with a Nonprofit Management concentration from Harvard University, a Bachelor of Architecture from Wentworth Institute, and a diploma from the Technical University of Vienna. She is currently completing her doctorate in Organizational Leadership at Northeastern University.

Her work has been featured at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Venice Biennale, and the XXII Triennale di Milano, and published by MIT Press, Rizzoli, Routledge, and in the New York Times, Dwell, Wired, and more.

With over 20 years of Interior Design experience and a few more in film production, Emily resides at K Hovnanian Homes as Senior Director of Interior Design. She is part of a new infrastructure of enhancing the home building experience and yet keeping it affordable. She has a vast portfolio of work experience ranging from large scale hospitality developments, luxury retail design, innovative workplace endeavors to high end residential projects. She has worked on projects all over North America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Prior to K Hovnanian, Emily has headed up interior design departments in a range of companies and studios like Jeffrey Beers International (JBI), Peloton, Ralph Lauren/ Club Monaco, and worked with several notable design firms and talents including Architecture +Information (A+I), Clodagh, Thom Filicia, and Ian Schrager.

Emily holds a Master of Science in Interior Design from Pratt institute and a Bachelor of Arts from University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) majoring in Media Studies and Art History. She is an Associate member of the IIDA.

(mehr-ee-el mel-en-dr-ez mace) Meriel is a complexity scientist, artist, and educator. Presently, she teaches with Fritjof Capra's undergraduate-level systems science course, works on a collective intelligence question, researches California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens and Sequoiadendron giganteum) leaf pores, consults for a book about empathic urban design, studies software engineering and machine learning, and tutors youth in language arts and STEM.

Meriel has served as the coordinator for the first U.S. Forest Service Urban Ranger Station, the co-founder of a complexity-theory-inspired eco-design and literacy company called Little Bird Gardening, the coordinator of the urban agriculture branch of the first democratic participatory budget initiative in the United States, and a co-founder of the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Laboratory at California Polytechnic, Humboldt.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Integrative Biology: Ecology and Evolution from the University of California, Berkeley; a large part of a degree in Landscape Architecture with a focus on permaculture from a few California community colleges; and a master’s in Social Science: Environment and Community from California Polytechnic Humboldt.

John Rudikoff is a savvy corporate attorney with diverse in-house and private practice experience. His background as a law school professor and business executive enriches his legal practice with insight into the challenges faced by all types of business ventures, workers, and dreamers. 

John takes an integrated and collaborative approach to legal practice, working hand-in-hand with his clients to design bespoke and cost-effective solutions to common legal bottlenecks. Regardless of the challenge, John brings a creative and forward-thinking approach to crafting efficient, smart, and scalable solutions.

John received his BA from Sarah Lawrence College and his JD from Brooklyn Law School, where he has held various leadership positions and continues to teach.

Vivian Kuan is Executive Director of Terreform ONE, a non-profit architecture and urban design think tank focused on ecological design solutions for cities. Vivian has also served as adjunct faculty at Parsons in the Strategic Design and Management graduate program.

Before Terreform ONE, Vivian designed and managed large scale architecture projects in the U.S. and Asia for Kohn, Pederson, Fox Associates, and for Sun Hung Kai Properties. Vivian currently serves on the Advisory Council of Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, on the Dean’s Council of the Yale School of Architecture, and as a board member of the Cue Art Foundation.

Vivian earned an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA from the Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.Arch. from Cornell University.