Kevin Grove is Professor of Geography at Florida International University, and editor at Progress in Human Geography. His research focuses on the political geographies of resilience and disasters, which he has explored in Kingston, Jamaica, New York City, Puerto Rico and Miami. He has authored over 80 peer reviewed articles and chapters, including Resilience (Routledge, 2018), which examines the links between ecological resilience theory, design thinking, and geographic thought.Anke Gruendel heads the Transformation Lab at Leuphana University, Germany. With a background in design studies, she holds a PhD in politics from the New School for Social Research. Her work focuses on public sector innovation, combining fieldwork and genealogy to explore how today's democratic crises are bound up with twentieth-century planning and policy analysis. She is currently writing a monograph that develops a political theory of public design.Loreen S. Magariño is a clinical scientist focused on youth mental health research whose work prioritizes the experiences of culturally and socioeconomically diverse communities. She collaborates with organizations, kin, stakeholders, and service systems to improve youth, family, and community wellbeing.Claudia Mareis is Professor of Design and the History of Knowledge in the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is also the co-director of the Cluster of Excellence, “Matters of Activity. Image Space Material.” Her areas of research expertise include the history and theory of design, interdisciplinary design studies, the cultural history of creativity, and material culture studies.Sarah Molinari is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Her work examines the intersecting climate and economic crises in Puerto Rico and grassroots resistance. Sarah is a Co-Founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus, a digital open educational resource for teaching and learning about Puerto Rico's debt crisis.Genevieve Reid's research in critical GIScience and digital geographies focuses on data justice and Indigenous data sovereignty. She contributes to interdisciplinary projects, emphasizing critical pedagogies and knowledge co-production with local and Indigenous communities in Northern Canada, Puerto Rico, and Miami. These initiatives aim to foster intergenerational knowledge transfer, promote ethical research practices, and redefine community resilience, health, and wellbeing.Melike Şahinol is Principal Senior Researcher and Head of “Science, Technology and Society” at the Orient-Institut Istanbul (Max Weber Foundation). Her research explores how technologies shape agency, care, and embodiment, focusing on disability, medical technologies, and human-technology interaction. She specializes in participatory methods with vulnerable groups, especially children, and received the “Wissen der Vielen—Citizen Science Research Award” (2025) for her work with children and 3D-printed prostheses.Michael Saward is a professor of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Representative Claim (Oxford University Press 2010) and Democratic Design (Oxford University Press 2021).Wolfgang Schäffner is professor of the Cultural History of Knowledge at the Department of History and Theory of Culture at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Permanent Guest Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and director of Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.Robert Stock is a Junior Professor for Cultures of Knowledge at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at HU Berlin. His main research interests are environmental dis/humanities, digital media and dis/abilities, and Luso-African decolonization processes. He is co-founder of the research network »Dis-/Abilities and Digital Media« (funded by DFG). Co-editor of the anthology Techniques of Hearing. History, Theory and Practices (Routledge 2023).
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