Samaneh Moafi is an Architect and Academic Researcher. She holds her PhD from The Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture. Her thesis examined struggle and resistance from the space of the home with a particular focus on the intersection of gender and class in Iran. Her articles on housing have appeared at the Avery Review, the Funambulist and the Real Review. Currently Samaneh is a researcher at Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London, coordinating the Centre for Contemporary Nature and developing new investigative techniques for environmental violence. Her work has been exhibited globally in forums such as the Tate Britain (2018), MACBA (2017) and Venice Architecture Biennale (2016). Previously, Samaneh led design studios at master’s level at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College of London (2014-15), and bachelor’s level at the University of Technology Sydney (2012-13). She also taught a number of workshops at the Royal College of Arts, the Architectural Association and PACT Zollverein.

Launched in 2015, Platform 28 is a multidisciplinary platform for art and architecture in Tehran. Its program investigates the built environment according to chosen curatorial themes, which for 2019 was 'Domesticity in Iran'.

Maria Bessarabova is a video compositor and animator, currently at the AA School of Architecture. Her research is organised around stories of the future.

WORKNOT! is a collective of artists and architects based between Rotterdam and Tehran. It works on the socio-spatiality of مشاع (shared space in residential buildings), precarity, and domesticity through interventions, image making, film, narrative, and performance.