Farah Alkhoury (she/her) is an Iraqi architect, researcher, and educator based in New York. She is an architecture fellow at Bard College, where she is developing the project Occupied Ecologies: Architecture of Toxic Proliferation, which attends to the presence of military toxicity that remains embedded in the soil, water, and air. She previously taught at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She holds a bachelor’s in architecture from the American University of Sharjah and a master’s in advanced architectural design from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP).

Tigran Kostandyan is an Armenian architect, designer, researcher and educator based in New York. His work delves into the intersection of supply chains, architecture, and environmental through cinematography, model-making, algorithms, and storytelling.

Tigran is a registered architects in NY, extensive experience in architecture and exhibition design, having worked in New York, Sharjah (SAF ) , and Dubai .