Jonathan Bean is an interdisciplinary scholar and Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Arizona, USA. His current research focuses on the emergence of high-performance building. Co-editor of the book Taste, Markets, and Consumption: An Interdisciplinary Volume, he is recognized in the field of marketing for his pioneering work on taste regimes.Susannah Dickinson is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Arizona, USA. Her research connects multi-scalar complexity theory with digital design pedagogy. She has published in the International Journal of Architectural Research (IJAR) and the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC). Her design studio won the 2018 Architect Magazine Sloan Studio Prize.Aletheia Ida is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Arizona, USA, with a research emphasis on critical material practice.

She has more than twenty publications including Metropolis 'eoeSource Materials,'e Materials Research Society 'eoeProgrammable Matter,'e Cambridge University Press MRS Advances, and IGI Global Press 'eoeEnergetic Forms of Matter.'e She received the 2018 AIA Arizona Research Design Award.