Dietmar Offenhuber is Professor of design in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University in Boston. He was educated as an architect in Vienna, Austria before receiving his MS and PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on environmental information and visual practices of evidence construction. Dietmar is the author of the award-winning monograph “Waste is Information” (MIT Press) and has published books on urban data and accountability technologies. His latest book “Autographic Design – the Matter of Data in a Self-inscribing World” (MIT Press) examines material visualization practices and the production of evidence

Bolor Amgalan is an interaction design researcher, educator, and design strategist investigating the role of processual materials and disruptive emerging technologies as catalysts for social change. Bolor programs hybrid materials and creativity support tools that sit at the intersections of interface design, computation and craft. A graduate of Parsons and Central Saint Martins, Bolor is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Design and a PhD student at Northeastern University.

Paula Martin Rivero is an artist and researcher exploring borders, language and technology. Paula holds a BFA and an MA from Universidad Complutense and an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. A Fulbright Scholar and La Caixa Fellow she is currently pursuing her PhD in Interdisciplinary Design and Media at Northeastern. She primarily works with installations and time-based media to interrogate the poetics of place, identity, migration, social histories and cultural memory.

Sebastian Gonzalez explores climate change and environmental issues through moving image, interactive media, and site-specific interventions. Raised in Bogotá, Colombia, he earned a B.A. in psychology and a graduate certificate in photography from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Sebastian holds an MFA in Film & Video from MassArt, where he taught as adjunct faculty for the Film/Video and Studio Foundation departments. He is currently a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Design and Media at Northeastern University.

Chucho (Jesús) Ocampo is an artist and architect working with the incommensurability of planetary phenomena and experience. A partner at the art and architecture firm DeriveLab since 2013, he holds a master’s from MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program. Ocampo has taught and researched at UNAM, MIT, Parsons, and Harvard. Recently, he collaborated with UNAM’s Geoscience Center, securing grants from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture and Mexico’s National Fund for the Arts for interdisciplinary projects. He is currently a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Design and Media at Northeastern University.

Jules Rochielle Sievert has been the creative director at NuLawLab since 2013. Jules is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. at the College Of Art, Media, and Design. Jules was an Ambassador for Health Equity at Policy Link. From 2017-2019, Jules was Creative Placemaking Policy Fellow at Arizona State University through the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.