Michael Schumacher is a professor of design and construction at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences at Leibniz Universität Hannover (University of Hanover); for more than twenty years, he has been a co-owner of the firm schneider + schumacher. Oliver Schaeffer studied at the TU München (Technical University of Munich) and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). He has worked at Michael Hopkins in London as well as at other firms and is presently a research associate at the Institut für Entwerfen und Konstruieren (Institute of Design and Construction) in Hanover. Michael-Marcus Vogt is also a research associate at that institute and does research on dynamic materials and applications technologies for adaptive facade systems.