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Architect, Founding Partner of Gehl Architects, and Professor emeritus The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. He has published several books, including the most recent “How to Study Public Life”. As part of Gehl Architects, he has collaborated on projects for the cities of Copenhagen, London, Melbourne, Sydney, Riga, Amman, New York and Moscow, among others. Honorary fellow of the Architects Institutes in Denmark, England, Scotland, USA and Canada. Awarded with the ”Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to Town Planning” by The International Union of Architects as well as honorary doctor degrees from Universities in Edinburgh, Halifax, Varna and Toronto.

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Nicolas Bourriaud, born in 1965, is a curator and writer. He is currently the Director of the MoCo- Montpellier Contemporain (gathering the art center La Panacée, the ESBAMA art school and the future MoCo Museum opening in 2019). He will be the curator of the Istanbul Biennial, 2019. He founded and Codirected the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, (99-06), was the founder advisor for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kiev (03-07), professor at the IUAV in Venice (06-07), Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at Tate Britain in London (07/10), In 2010, he headed the studies department at the Ministry of culture in France, then became Director of the ENSBA of Paris (11 -15).  As an independent curator, he was part of the curatorial team of Aperto 1993 at the Venice Biennial, and organised many international exhibitions, from «Traffic» (Capc Bordeaux, 96), «Estratos» (Murcia, Spain, 08) or «Altermodern» (Tate Britain, 09), to the recent «Wirikuta/ Mexican time slip» (Aguascalientes, Mexico, 16). He also was curator of several biennials, including Lyon (05), Moscou (05 and 07, with with Rosa Martínez, Daniel Birnbaum, Joseph Backstein, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and  Iara Boubnova), «Monodrome» (Athens, 11), «The Great Acceleration» (Taipei Biennial 14) and «Threads» (Kaunas Biennial, Lituania, 15). He published several theoretical essays, including «Relational Aesthetics», «Postproduction», «Radicant» and «The Exform», which are translated in twenty languages.

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James Corner is an internationally renowned landscape architect. Based in New York City, his firm’s projects include New York’s widely acclaimed High Line; Seattle’s Central Waterfront; Tongva Park in Santa Monica; London’s South Park Plaza at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; Chicago’s Navy Pier; and the new Presidio Parklands in San Francisco. He is known for a special commitment to the design of a vibrant and dynamic public realm, informed by the ecology of both people and nature. James has been published and exhibited internationally, and has been recognized with significant design awards, including the National Design Award; the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the Daimler-Chrysler Award for Design Innovation.