Dr. Marta Brković Dodig is a Founding Director of NGO ARQubator, which aims to tackle sustainability challenges through academia and local communities’ partnerships in a participatory fashion. She works as an Associate Professor in Architecture in Belgrade, Serbia and a scientist at EMPA, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her work revolves around the topics of sustainable and learning environments design; participation, co-design and games; Baukultur and built environment/architecture education; agency and activism in architecture and urbanism; spatial research methods and research by design.

She was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow during 2018-2020 at the Chair for Urban Design and Development at TU Berlin. Marta has worked as an architect with G+O Architekten in Munich (2015/16) and at M-House Design in Belgrade (since 2010). She has experience as a Principal Investigator and a partner on research projects hosted at both academic institutions (The University of Michigan, The University of Sheffield, TU Berlin, TU Munich, Polytechnic University of Catalonia) and in architectural practices through the “knowledge – transfer partnership” (Building Design Partnership Sheffield). Together with Prof. Linda Groat she has edited “The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning”. Her game “Spector – The Sustainability Inspector” has been awarded honourable mention at 2023 UIA Golden Cube awards from the International Union of Architects.

Dr.-Ing. Angela Million, née Uttke, is Professor of Urban Design and Urban Development at TU Berlin – University of Technology in Berlin, Germany. Here research, practice and teaching combine interests in participatory urban design, with a special interest in cities as educational settings, children and youth. Angela began 2005 working with children and young people as co-founder of JAS Jugend Architektur Stadt e.V. (www.jugend-architektur-stadt.de), a non-profit organisation for built environment education and participation, and brought this experience back to academia.

Since 2011 she has pursued a range of outreach activities with schools and national and international partners, for example “ReThink Urban Spaces - A Thai-European Youth Forum on Urban Community Development”.  As a researcher she has been principal investigator in research projects on BEE impacts and outcomes and youth participation in spatial design and urban planning. Her current research explores educational landscapes, neurourbanism, as well as the changing spatial knowledge and hybrid spatial constructions of young people within the Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Refiguration of Spaces” at TU Berlin. She is member of PLAYCE.org and UIA Built Environment Education network.

Heba Safey Eldeen is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Misr International University (MIU), Egypt. Her research Interests involve: Environmental Behavioural Studies, Architecture and Children, Urban Design, History and Theories, Design and Research Methods, Participatory Design, Curricula Development and Urban Sociology. She is a director of the House of Egyptian Architecture, Ministry of Culture and a co-director of Architecture and Children Work Program, International Union of Architects (UIA). Her research focuses on Environmental Behavioural Studies in Architecture and Urban Design, History and Theories of Egyptian Architecture and Urbanism.

She has published over 50 research papers and participated in conferences, symposia and exhibitions worldwide. She is a member of numerous local and international architectural and cultural organisations. She is the founder of the Built Environment Education Lab dedicated to communicating architecture to children and youth.