Karin Templin is a practitioner of architecture and urban design, academic, design lecturer, writer, editor, and urban historian. Her work focuses on the development of urban form through architecture with an emphasis on the research and design of urban housing types. As a practitioner in architecture and urban design, she has worked internationally on large-scale urban regeneration projects and is an expert in urban housing.

Karin has taught at a number of universities, most recently as a Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna (Cesena), Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, and a Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She currently leads the architecture summer course at the Florence Institute of Design International (FIDI). She has lectured and served as a guest critic at universities in Europe including USI Mendrisio, RWTH Aachen, TU Eindhoven, Rotterdam Academie van Bouwkunst, University of Liechtenstein, and EPFL Lausanne.

Karin is the author of Street Architecture: Work by Hans van der Heijden and At Home in London: The Mansion Block, commissioned by The Architecture Foundation and published by Mack Books.

Rosamund Diamond is the founder of Diamond Architects. The work of her practice has been published in the UK and Japan. She studied at the Bartlett School UCL. She has taught at the Architectural Association and the Bartlett Graduate School. She has been a visiting critic and lecturer at many schools in Europe and the US, including the GSD Harvard, the Cooper Union, ETH and EPFL, and the University of Bologna at Cesena. She is currently teaching at the University of Nottingham where she is an assistant professor. Her interests lie in alternative collaborative and sustainable approaches to architectural practice, urbanism and construction

She is the London correspondent of werk bauen + wohnen Zurich, for whom she regularly contributes articles. She has edited several architectural books, and is the author of various architectural essays including ‘Eileen Gray and the influence of Cubism in E.1027 O’Neil Ford Monograph 7’ (2017) and ‘Architecture from Drawing: A Brief Enquiry into Three Types’ in The Hybrid Practitioner. Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture, 2023

Devorah Block is an educator and strategic advisor to cultural and social change organisations in the third sector, with a background in art history and museum education.

Her work promotes the sharing of knowledge across boundaries as a path to resilient learning and sustainable change with a particular interest in creating social change through individual empowerment and agency.

Devorah is passionate about the democratisation of built environment knowledge and understanding as a path to achieving social, environmental, and economic justice. Between 2019-2023 she worked with the Built Environment Trust (Building Centre, London) to help them define, develop, and activate a new public-facing strategy delivered through community-embedded centres and focussed on the social impact of the built environment.

She leads the Built Environment Literacy Research Group and Learning Community.