Zoran Thaler is a Slovenian politician and businessman. He is currently serving as a Member of European Parliament, as member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

Born in 1962 in Skopje, Macedonia. Attended the Academy in Milano and graduated at the Technical University of Skopje - architecture. Since 1987lives and works as an architect in Vienna. Between 1995 and 2008 major public and housing project across Europe. Partnership with Schluder Architecture - Vienna. 2008 exhibition at the Bienalle in Venice. 2008 conducted the official selection at the Macedonian Bienalle of Architecture. Organizer of Forum Skopje.

Antonio Petrov is currently a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Literature and Arts, and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He holds degrees in history and theory of architecture, urban design and cultural studies from Harvard University, Master of Architecture II from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Dipl. Ing. Arch. in Architecture, and Foreign Trade Business. Antonio taught History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Design, Architectural Design, Urban Design and Digital Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Iowa State University, Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He also is a founding co-editor of the Harvard Graduate School of Design Magazine “New Geographies” http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/academic/upd/agakhan/newgeographies/ and DOMA, a bilingual book-zine that will be launched by the end of may in Macedonia that focuses on contemporary architecture, art, media- and cultural studies. Furthermore, he is publishing a book titled “Motion of Matter: Of Disturbed Fundamentals and the Embrace of Strangeness and Indeterminate Dimensions” that examine interdisciplinary design methodologies, research, and practice in the arts, the humanities, and the sciences, and conceptualize interdisciplinary methodologies, and question singular disciplinary approaches in response to contemporary political, socio-cultural and technological circumstances that demand meta-dimensional dialogues about interdisciplinary practice to negotiate new metaphors, new spatial paradigms, new languages, and new means of representation in contemporary academic and professional contexts. 

Aleksandar Petrov graduated in Architecture (2004) at the Ferrara University, Italy.
From 2005 - member of the Italian architectural association of Ferrara.
Between 2004-2008 works for several offices of architecture:
Zagreb ( Njiric+Arhitekti ) Genova (Archea Associatti) and (Open building research - OBR), Milano
He is co-founder of Studiokolektiv (working group for interdisciplinary competitions and conceptual urban-architectural design);
Exhibition with  the macedonian pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale (transportable laboratory - the project My Sunshine by Nikola Uzunovski);
He  participated in several intercultural projects and workshops as: Sweden (citymoveinterdesign_Gellivare), Belgium (existenz maximum_Leuven), Italy (progetare il confine-gorizia nuova goriza; progetto montesquieu _pescara), Macedonia (helping local community, assistent with prof Hrvoje Njiric - Kriva Palanka);

Volker Gessendorfer was trained as an architect at the Politecnico di Milano, at the Ecole d’Architecture in La Villette, Paris, and at University of Technology Vienna, where he received his diploma in 2002. Working since 2002 to date as a freelance architect for COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Vienna, Volker has also been pursuing his independent research and teaching activity. From 2005 - 2007 he was Assistant Professor at the Space & Design Strategies unit of the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, Austria. He was also Adjunct Professor for several design studios at the TU Vienna, and has lectured at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, in particular on the subject of his PhD - design strategies and representational methods.

The painter, Triantafilos Tranos, has always had an aesthetic fascination on the physical properties and optical qualities of paper.
Since 1980’s he has been working on paper of various size, weight and quality. During the 90’s he worked furiously and productively on a series of big scale works. The character of those works, though based on his previous production on paper, was proved to be highly experimental, self-referential and constructively self-sufficient.
Despite the figurative elements and the multiple references of those elements to the physical world, the priority in the work is being given to the abstract. Thus, the work, that intentionally minimizes its means of production and its color vocabulary, could be considered abstract – amorphous art. 
The dynamic and powerful abilities of the painter to design and sketch the figurative elements extracted from the physical world, create a graphic space of lines and forms. This created space clashes with the Euclidean conception of the geometrical space. The end result of this clash has the powerful effect of a turbulent space of unrecognized shapes and forms. This amorphous space succeeds to create the illusion of a different representational proposition that spins within its own rules.           

Srdjan Jovanović Weiss’ books: Almost Architecture and Lost Highway Expedition explore architecture vis-à-vis emerging democratic processes of Europe’s South East. Weiss is an architect and founder of Normal Architecture Office as well as founding member of School of Missing Studies based in Philadelphia. He is building one of the houses in the new city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, selected by Herzog & de Meuron Architects and master planned by Ai Weiwei. Academically he is preparing a book on positive aspects of Balkanization supported by Research Architecture at Goldsmiths and currently he is Assistant Professor at Tyler School of Art_Architecture at Temple University giving lectures both at Harvard and University of Pennsylvania. His education includes masters from Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade and Harvard Graduate School of Design studying with Rem Koolhaas and Jacques Herzog. Weiss is one of the authors in Harvard Guide to Shopping edited by Koolhaas et. al. and he is currently collaborating with H&deM on the future of Haus der Kunst in Munich. www.thenao.net

Philip Ursprung studied art history, history and German in Geneva, Vienna and Berlin. Doctorate at the FU Berlin, qualified with post-doctoral thesis for a senior post at the ETH Zurich. He has taught at the universities of Geneva, Basel and Zurich, at the ETH Zurich, the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and the Universität der Künste Berlin. From 2001-05 he was funded by the Nationalfonds as professor of contemporary art history in the architecture department of the ETH Zurich. He has been professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Zurich since 2005.

He has been curator at the Kunsthalle Palazzo in Liestal, and guest curator at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University New York. 

He is the author of “Grenzen der Kunst: Allan Kaprow und das Happening, Robert Smithson und die Land Art” (Munich, 2003), editor of “Herzog & de Meuron: Naturgeschichte” (Montreal and Baden 2002), and co-author of “Images: A Picture Book of Architecture” (Munich 2004). 

He was a member of the Eidgenössische Kunstkommission from 1997-2004.
He has been president of the Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art since 2003.
He is president of the jury at the Akademie Schloss Solitude for the period 2007-2009.

is a macedonian architect based in Austria and Ph.D. candidate at the Technical University of Vienna. Founder of Forum Skopje in 2008 and short film maker embracing documentary, architecture, sociology and visual arts. At the moment lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna and University American College in Skopje, Macedonia.