Wolfgang Weileder is an artist and Professor of Contemporary Sculpture at Newcastle University whose practice and research is primarily concerned with the examination and critical deconstruction of architecture, public spaces and the interactions we have with the urban environment. They are investigations into the relationship between time and space, the interface between reality and virtuality, and how these can be explored to question our understanding of the public sphere.
Simon Guy is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster University, previously having founded and directed the Manchester Architecture Research Centre (The University of Manchester). Simon aims to critically understand the co-evolution of design and development strategies, and the socio-economic processes shaping cities. Urban sustainability’s contested nature is amongst his concerns; as played out within competing discourses of green building. He previously worked with Wolfgang Weileder on the Stilt House project in Singapore.
Dr Angela Connelly is a Senior Research Associate at the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts. Her work traces the shaping of people and environments by examining cases in both the past and present, including religious architecture, urban food growing, and flood resilience strategies. She draws on a range of methodological tools, including visual sources and walking tours, in order to understand the narratives that are constructed about built and natural environments.
Dr Marianne Wilde is a visual artist and Research Associate at Newcastle University School of Arts & Cultures. Her research interests and practice are concerned with collaborative cross-disciplinary projects that use the visual images and objects of a fine art practice as narrative and explanation in the wider environment. Her PhD thesis interrogated how we See and how we Say genetic diagnosis; this was an AHRC collaborative doctoral award with the Institute of Genetic Medicine in Newcastle.
Dr Thomas Edward Wainwright has a background in architectural design and temporary installations, having worked in Berlin and New York on research-led projects, and a doctoral degree in applied architectural research. He has experience in working with leading artists, architects, planners, designers and educators to produce projects, research and provide analysis, writing and design services to all sectors of the built and physical environment.