Dipl.- Ing. (arch) Manuel Kretzer is an architect and designer from Germany. He studied architecture at the Universities of Dresden, South Australia and Karlsruhe, where he graduated in 2008 with an interactive pavilion that was realized at Burning Man, Nevada, USA. He worked as Research and Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Karlsruhe and later he was employed with Philip Beesley Architect Inc. in Toronto, Canada. Since March 2010 he is Scientific Assistant at the Chair for CAAD at the ETH in Zürich. His research focuses on digital design and fabrication methods with a special interest in new technologies and materials and their application in temporary, interactive art and architecture. He has realized a number of large scale sculptures and installations and been granted several scholarships and awards.

Christine Baumgartner, Dipl.Ing. (Arch.) MAS LA ETHZ, is an architect and landscape architect from Germany. She has a special interest in projects in between the architectural and the urban scale. Christine studied architecture and urban design at the Universites of Karlsruhe, Germany and KwaZulu Natal in Durban (SA) - and landscape architecture at the Chair of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich. Since 2005, Christine has been working on architecture and landscape projects for offices in Durban, Basel, Toronto and Munich. She finished the "Master of Advanced Studies"- program in Landscape Architecture in 2011 and is currently providing her services to Robin Winogrond Landscape Architects in Zurich.

Dipl.- Ing. (arch) Hans Sachs is a research associate at the Institute of Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Cologne University of Applied Sciences with Prof. Oliver Fritz. He is also teaching in various subjects on CAD, CAM, parametric/ generative design and geometry. He studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe and the University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian. After his diploma 'The Cone - interactive architecture for Burning Man 2008' he worked at the Institute for Industrial Building Design, University of Karlsruhe. From August 2008 to May 2009 he worked in Accra, Ghana at Joe Osae Addo‘s architecture and design studio‚ Constructs LLC. He is co-founder of DIYDA - Do It Yourself Design and Architecture and is an active member in building the Dingfabrik Köln e.V., the first FabLab in Cologne.