Adrian Lahoud is Dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art London. His work critically examines concepts of scale and shelter in architecture in light of emancipatory urban and environmental struggles, focusing on the Middle East and Africa. He was Research Fellow on the Forensic Architecture project and head of the MA Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University. He has also led urban design programmes at the Architectural Association and University College London. Recent exhibits include: ‘Climate Crimes’ in The Future Starts Here, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2018; ‘The Shape of the Eclipse’ in Let’s Talk about the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis, Sursock Museum, Beirut, 2016; ‘Secular Cosmologies’ in the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016: After Belonging. Recent publications include: ‘The Mediterranean: A New Imaginary’ in New Geographies, Harvard University Press; ‘The Bodele Declaration’ in Grain, Vapour, Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene, MIT Press; and ‘Nomos and Cosmos’ in Supercommunity, MIT Press.

Moad Musbahi is a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art and a part of the curatorial team for the Triennial since June 2018. His research investigates migration as a social practice and its associated forms of knowledge and cultural production within the Sahara. Recent exhibitions include ‘paper nor me_xx1, a fatwa for the removal of suspicion..’ in How to Disappear at Beirut Art Center, Beirut (2019) and ‘Saharan Urbanity’ in Architecture of the Territory at Beit Beirut, Beirut (2019). Recent publications include ‘Asl (Origin)’ in AA Files 76, 2019 and ‘face me I face you’ in NOIT — 5: bodies as in buildings, 2019 and ‘The Sahara Is not a Desert: Re-Mapping Libya, Unravelling the State,’ in The Funambulist 18 Cartography & Power, 2018. In addition to architectural experience, he has worked in Libya during 2011 for the UNHCR and Tunisian Red Crescent, with Mckinsey & Co. and undertook the ‘Library on Fire’ residency at the Luma Foundation in Arles, 2017. Moad studied philosophy before attending the Architectural Association in London.

Kasia Wlaszczyk is a part of the curatorial team for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial. She holds an MA in History of Art from University College London, and has previously worked as Assistant Director at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and as Curatorial Assistant: Commissions at Chisenhale Gallery in London.

Andrea Bagnato is head of publications for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial. He trained as an architect and worked as a researcher and editor for Forensic Architecture, Space Caviar, Kuehn Malvezzi, and Tomás Saraceno, and was publications manager for the first Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015. More recently, he has taught at postgraduate level at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and at the Architectural Association in London. Among his edited books are SQM: The Quantified Home (2014), The State of the Art of Architecture (2015), and A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change (2019). With his research project Terra Infecta – which concerns epidemics, architecture, and ecology – Bagnato was awarded grants from Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Graham Foundation.

Kamil Dalkir is a visiting lecturer of architecture design studio ADS8: Data Matter: Digital Networks, Data Centres & Posthuman Institutions at the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art. He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Westminster, a masters degree in Robotics from Kings college London and a masters degree in Architecture from the Royal College of Art. He is currently studying for a PhD in Architecture at the Royal College, focusing on the Architecture of Law in the context of the migrant crisis. He has several years of work experience, most notably with Studio Fuksas in Rome (Italy) and Balmond Studio in London (England). He also works closely with architects, designers and artists on exhibitions design and prototyping.

Michael McMahon has been a researcher for the Triennial since September 2018. He is a descendant of the Bundjalung people of North-East New South Wales, Australia and his current research investigates how Indigenous ontologies of land can inform the built environment. He completed an undergraduate degree in Architecture at RMIT and is currently pursuing his Masters degree in Architecture at the Royal College of Art as a Roberta Sykes Scholar. Before commencing his studies at the RCA, Michael worked as a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria (IADV), a not-for-profit organization that aims to strengthen Indigenous culture within the built environment.