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Saskia Sassen

Urban sociologist, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University

Rick Lowe

Artist and community organiser, founder of Project Row Houses

Jodi Dean

Political philosopher, Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Marina Otero Verzier

Architect, head of research & development at Het Nieuwe Instituut in the Netherlands, and Chief Curator of the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale together with the After Belonging Agency

Doina Petrescu

Architect, Professor at the School of Architecture of The University of Sheffield and a co-founder of atelier d'architecture autogérée (aaa)

Constantin Petcou

Architect whose work stresses the intersections between architecture, urbanism and semiotics, co-founder of atelier d'architecture autogérée (aaa)

Gediminas Urbonas

Artist, Professor at the Department of Architecture, Director of the MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology

Nomeda Urbonas

Artist, PhD candidate at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology and research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Media maker, activist, Associate Professor & Principal Investigator at the MIT Center for Civic Media, and founder of the MIT Codesign Studio

Gintautas Mažeikis

Philosopher, cultural theorist, and anthropologist, Professor, and head of the Department of Philosophy and Social Critique at Vytautas Magnus University

Tomas S. Butkus

Urbanist, independent publisher, designer, poet, and author, founder of Vario burnos, researcher at the Institute of Urban Design, Architecture and Design of Vilnius Academy of Arts

Rasa Baločkaitė

Associate Professor in sociology in the Department of Social and Political Theory, Vytautas Magnus University

Vita Gelūnienė & Ed Carroll

Artistic team working with local communities, founders of Cabbage Field - Laboratory for Citizen Initiative

Julija Reklaitė

Architect, cultural attaché of the Republic of Lithuanian to Italian Republic

Leftwing public intellectual, Professor of Political Philosophy at Mykolas Romeris University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics, London Metropolitan University

Skaidra Trilupaitytė

Art theorist, cultural critic, and Senior Scholar at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

Jūratė Tutlytė

Art theorist, researcher, Associate Professor at the Arts Department of Vytautas Magnus University

Viktorija Rusinaitė

Activist and researcher at the Public Policy and Management Institute, Vilnius, working on the topics of education and cultural policy

Rytis Zemkauskas

TV reporter, host and producer, film voice-over actor and a writer, lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University

Elena Archipovaitė

Independent urban development practitioner and educator

Ilona Jurkonytė

Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate in Film and Moving Image programme at Concordia University

MARYJA ŠUPA

Urban scholar with an interdisciplinary background in sociology, criminology and communication studies, researcher at the Civil Society Institute