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Ivan Blasi (Barcelona, 1976) is an architect and exhibition curator, working at the intersection of architecture and cultural production. A graduate of ETSAB-UPC, he combines professional practice with critical reflection on space and society. He has been working at the Fundació Mies van der Rohe since 2008, where he serves as curator, Programme Director and Director of the EUmies Awards. He has also developed international exhibitions on contemporary European architecture.

Klaas De Rycke is a Belgian civil engineer and architect. He teaches and conducts research at ENSA Versailles (LEAV) and is an associate professor at UCL Bartlett. At the same time, he leads teams of engineers at Bollinger+Grohmann on complex structures and façades. His expertise covers structural optimisation, digital modelling, machine learning and low-carbon design, applied to international projects and bio-geo-sourced materials.

Peter Cachola Schmal (born in 1960) is a Filipino-German architect, curator and critic. Since 2006, he has been Director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), where he has organised several hundred exhibitions since his arrival in 2000, initially as a curator. He was curator of the German Pavilion at the São Paulo Biennale in 2007 and the Venice Biennale in 2016. He is also affiliated with numerous prestigious awards, such as the DAM Award, the DAM Architectural Book Award, the International High-Rise Award, the EUmies Awards, the European Prize for Urban Public Space and the Schelling Award.

After training in law, art history and cultural project management, Eléonore Mialonier joined the Centre Pompidou-Metz, where she worked as Project Manager for 12 years and as Interim Head of the Production Division for one year.
She joined Kultur | lx in 2022 as Project Manager for Architecture, Design and Art Professions, where she was involved in particular in producing the Luxembourg Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023 and 2025.

Inge Vinck (born in 1973) is a Belgian architect based in Ghent and Zurich. As co-founder with Jan De Vylder of ADVVT and AJDVIV/IVJDVA, Inge Vinck has received numerous awards over the years, such as the Silver Lion at Venice Biennial, as well as being a finalist of the Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Award and of the Schelling Award.
She is currently a professor in the Baukunstklasse at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and a board member of 019 Ghent/Smoke and Dust vzw.

Julie Wilhelm, is a Franco-Dutch architect who trained at ENSAS and Delft University of Technology. In 2024, she founded MW architectes in Strasbourg with François-Frédéric Muller. Since 2021, she has been Vice-President of the Maison Européenne de l’Architecture – Rhin Supérieur, which organises the cross-border festival ‘Les Journées de l’architecture | die Architekturtage’ in France, Germany and Switzerland.