Viola Ago (b. Lushnjë, Albania) is an architectural designer, educator, and practitioner. She directs MIRACLES Architecture and is the current Wortham Fellow at the Rice University School of Architecture. Recently, Viola was awarded the Yessios Visiting Professorship at the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture and the Muschenheim Fellowship at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture. Viola earned her M.Arch degree from SCI-Arc, and a B.ArchSc from Ryerson University. Her written work has been published in Log, Wiley’s AD Magazine, Routledge’s Instabilities and Potentialities, Offramp, ACADIA Conference Proceedings, JAE, Architect’s Newspaper, and Archinect.

Julie Kress is a designer, educator, and animation enthusiast. She is a Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee’s College of Architecture and Design, teaching architectural studio’s and seminars in digital representation. Prior to joining UTK, she earned her M.Arch at Rhode Island School of Design, where she was also the recipient of the Super Jury Thesis Award for the project, “Framed Familiarity”. Her work focuses on how to disrupt traditional workflows between models, images, and drawings through the creation of unconventional digital animations. Professionally she has worked as an exhibition/digital experience designer for the Boston firm IKD, contributing to projects at the Boston MFA and the MIT Museum. She shares her experiments (and adorable cat) on Instagram @kress.julie.

Hans Tursack is a designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a BFA in studio art from the Cooper Union School of Art, and an M.Arch from the Princeton University School of Architecture where he was the recipient of the Underwood Thesis Prize. He has worked in the offices of LEVENBETTS Architects, SAA/Stan Allen Architecture, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. His writing and scholarly work have appeared in Perspecta Journal, Pidgin Magazine, Thresholds, Log, Dimensions, Archinect, See/Saw, ACADIA Conference Proceedings, and the Architects Newspaper. He recently received the Willard A. Oberdick teaching/design fellowship from the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture, a MacDowell Research Fellowship, an Art OMI: Architecture residency, a Mass MOCA artist residency, and with Viola Ago, a University Design Research Fellowship from Exhibit Columbus. He is currently serving as the 2018-2021 Pietro Belluschi Research Fellow at the MIT School of Architecture + Planning and as Visiting Assistant Professor as Washington University in St. Louis.