Mark Pimlott (Montreal, Canada, 1958) is Assistant Professor in the Chair of Interiors Buildings Cities, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He is the author of 'Without and Within: Essays on Territory and the Interior' (2007); ‘In Passing’ (2010), and 'The Public Interior as Idea and Project' (2016). His practice incorporates photography, art for public places, and design, particularly of objects and interiors. Among his works are ‘World’ at BBC Broadcasting House, London (2013); ‘La scala’, Aberystwyth (2003); and interiors of the Red House, London (2001-2011, with Tony Fretton architects). His work has been exhibited internationally, including the twelfth Biennale internazionale di architettura di Venezia (2010). He lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands.

Paramita Atmodiwirjo is a professor of architecture at the Universitas Indonesia. She studied architecture at the University of Sheffield and Universitas Indonesia and education at the University of Bath. Her research interests are on the relationship between architecture, interior and the users’ behavior, and how such relationship should be the basis for designing for the users’ well-being.

Her works particularly focus on the importance of human body in our understanding of architecture and interior, and the needs to pay attention to users with special needs including children, elderly, diffable people and patients in healthcare setting. She is also active in developing learning methods for architectural education, to promote students’ creativity and awareness of the relationship between users and space. She also works closely with schools and communities in various community engagement projects to improve the quality of spaces for learning and living.

Paramita has been involved in the development of national standards for educational facilities with the Board of National Standard of Education (BSNP). She has been awarded Holcim Awards Asia Pacific 2011, Teaching Excellence Award 2014 from Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia, IAI Jakarta Award 2012 and Community Engagement Award from Universitas Indonesia in 2010 and 2011. She is the member of scientific committee for Asian Journal of Environment-Behavior Studies (ajE-Bs) and International Journal of Technology, (IJTech), and the secretary for International Association For Lifewide Learning (IAFLL).

Lawrence Wallen is Professor and Head of the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Director of the spatial prototyping lab and Co-Director of the Joint PhD program ‘Critical Spatial Thinking: Performative Practices and Narrative Spaces in Design’ in collaboration with TU Berlin. He has a background in architecture, visual arts and design. From 2002 to 2012 he was Professor of Scenography at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). His spatial practice ranges from stage design and installation to immersive and ambient media with recent projects realised in Italy, Australia and Cyprus, combined with a body of scholarly research focused on scenography, material thinking, spatial practices and landscape theory. He has been a guest artist at the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Germany and is Head of Applied Media at the Salzburg Urstein Institute.