Common Accounts was founded by Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler at Princeton University in 2015. Equipped with excellent data plans, the office operates over satellite, server, and fiber cable between Seoul, Toronto, and New York.

Lucia Allais is an architectural historian and theorist who teaches at Princeton University, a member of Aggregate, and an editor of Grey Room.

Shumon Basar is a writer, editor, and thought councellor.

Ruha Benjamin is assistant professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press, 2013).

Franco Berardi, aka “Bifo,” founder of the famous Radio Alice in Bologna and an important figure in the Italian Autonomia movement, is a writer, media theorist, and social activist.

Daniel Birnbaum is Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Ina Blom is the author of The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology (Sternberg Press, 2016).

Benjamin H. Bratton is author of The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2016) and Education Program Director of Strelka Institute. He is also Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego, a Professor of Digital Design at The European Graduate School and Visiting Faculty at SCI_Arc.

Giuliana Bruno is Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She recently published Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media (University of Chicago Press, 2014).

Zeynep Çelik Alexander is an architectural historian who teaches at the University of Toronto.

Mark Cousins is Director of History and Theory at the Architectural Association in London.

Simon Denny is an artist based in Berlin. His recent exhibitions explore the implications of blockchain technology on sovereignty.

Keller Easterling is a writer, designer, and professor at Yale University.

Arisa Ema is Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo and Visiting Researcher at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project in Japan.

Hu Fang is a novelist, art critic, and the cofounder and artistic director of Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou. His published novels include Dear Navigator, Garden of Mirrored Flowers, and New Arcade, Shopping Utopia. He lives and works in Beijing and Guangzhou.

Rubén Gallo teaches at Princeton University and is author of Freud's Mexico (MIT Press, 2010) and Proust's Latin Americans (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).

Liam Gillick is an artist. He is the author of Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820 (Columbia University Press, 2016).

Boris Groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and an internationally renowned expert on Soviet-era art and literature, especially the Russian avant-garde. He is a Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, and a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School (EGS). His work engages radically different traditions, from French post-structuralism to modern Russian philosophy, yet is firmly situated at the juncture of aesthetics and politics. Theoretically, Groys’s work is influenced by a number of modern and postmodern philosophers and theoreticians, including Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, and Walter Benjamin.

Andrew Herscher endeavors to bring the study of architecture and cities to bear on struggles for rights, democracy, and justice across a range of global sites. He teaches at the University of Michigan and has co-founded a series of militant research collaboratives including the We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective, Decolonizing Pedagogies Workshop, and the Settler Colonial City Project.

Tom Holert is an art historian, curator, and cultural critic based in Berlin who works on learning curves and knowledge vessels at the crossroads of politics, economy, contemporary art, design, and architecture. He is also a cofounder of the Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin.

Brooke Holmes is Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.

Sungook Hong teaches at the Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University.

Francesca Hughes is an architectural theorist and educator who teaches at the AA, London. Author of The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure and the Misadventures of Precision, she is currently working on a pre-history of the Universal Discrete Machine.

Yuk Hui currently teaches at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His latest book is Recursivity and Contingency (2019).

Andrés Jaque is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation, a Madrid/New York based practice that brings inclusivity into daily life through architecture.

Chin Jungkwon is professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Dongyang University and director of the Institute of Technology and Aesthetics, where he leads multidisciplinary studies connecting liberal arts, games, design, and engineering.

Lydia Kallipoliti is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union in New York and the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds (2018). She is the principal of ANAcycle thinktank.

Jaehee Kim is Visiting Professor at Sungkyunkwan University. She has written on and translated the work of Gilbert Simondon, Henri Bergson, Jacques Derrida, and Bernard Stiegler.

Sylvia Lavin is Professor of Architecture at Princeton University.

Yongwoo Lee is a media historian and cultural studies scholar based in New York and Seoul. He teaches media and cultural studies of modern Korea, film theory and popular culture in East Asia, intellectual history of wartime Japan and postwar Korea, Korean contemporary art and post/colonial historiography in the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University.

Lesley Lokko is a UK-trained, Scottish-Ghanaian architect, academic and best-selling novelist. She is Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York. She was formerly director of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, a school she set up in 2015.

MAP Office is a multidisciplinary platform devised by Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix, based in Hong Kong since 1996.

Catherine Malabou is a French philosopher. She is professor in the Philosophy Department at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University.

Chus Martinez is head of the Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel. She is also the expedition leader of The Current II (2018–20), a project initiated by TBA21–Academy. Additionally, in 2021 and 2022, Martínez will hold the artistic directorship of Ocean Space, Venice, a space spearheaded by TBA21–Academy that promotes ocean literacy, research, and advocacy through the arts.

Ingo Niermann is a writer and the editor of the Solution Series. His recent publications include Burial of the White Man (with Erik Niedling) and Solution 295–304: Mare Amoris.

Ahmet Öğüt is a sociocultural initiator, artist, and lecturer who lives and works in Istanbul, Berlin, and Amsterdam.

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines.

Spyros Papapetros is Associate Professor of History and Theory in the School of Architecture and the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. He is author of On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life (Chicago University Press, 2012).

Hannah Proctor is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin where she is currently working on a project exploring the temporal paradoxes of “radical psychiatry” (broadly conceived) with an emphasis on forms of care developed in the aftermath of political struggles.

Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Shuddhabrata Sengupta) has been variously described as artists, media practitioners, curators, researchers, editors, and catalysts of cultural processes. Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces and events, locates them squarely along the intersections of contemporary art, historical inquiry, philosophical speculation, research, and theory—often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances and encounters. They live and work in Delhi, based at Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, an initiative they cofounded in 2000.

Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University of Arts and Design in Offenbach/Main, Germany.

Erik Rietveld is a senior researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Ronald Rietveld is a Prix de Rome Architecture laureate. Together they founded RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances], a design and research studio operating at the crossroads of architecture, science, and art.

Sophia Roosth is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her first book, Synthetic: How Life Got Made, will be released by the University of Chicago Press in March 2017.

Felicity D. Scott is Associate Professor of Architecture, Director of the Ph.D. program in Architecture (History and Theory), and Co-director of the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP) program at Columbia GSAPP. Her most recent book is Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counter-insurgency (Zone Books, 2016).

Jack Self is Director of the REAL Foundation and curator of the 2016 British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shety are urbanists and cofounders of the School of Environment and Architecture in Mumbai.

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer who lives in Berlin.

Kali Stull is an activist and a recent graduate from the Master of Public Health program at the University of Pittsburgh, where her research focused on nonhuman agencies which affect human health.

Pelin Tan is Associate Professor at the Architecture Faculty, Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey.

Alexander Tarakhovsky is a scientist, writer, and artist.

Paulo Tavares is currently a researcher at FAU-USP, Brasil, and a long-term collaborator of Forensic Architecture.

Stephan Trüby is Professor of Architecture and Cultural Theory at the TU München and associate of the magazine ARCH+. He was head of research and development for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, directed by Rem Koolhaas.

Etienne Turpin is a philosopher, Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Founding Director of anexact office in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Anton Vidokle is an editor of e-flux journal.

Sven-Olov Wallenstein is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn Högskola in Stockholm.

Mark Wasiuta is a curator, architect, and writer who co-directs Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture at Columbia University GSAPP.

Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he founded the research agency Forensic Architecture and directs it ever since.

Mabel O. Wilson is an architectural designer and cultural historian. She has authored Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) and Negro Building: African Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012). At Columbia University she is a Professor of Architecture, a co-director of Global Africa Lab and the Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies. She’s a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) a collective that advocates for fair labor practices on building sites worldwide.

Brian Kuan Wood is an editor of e-flux journal.

Liam Young is a speculative architect and director who operates in the spaces between design, fiction, and futures. He is cofounder of the urban futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today and the nomadic research studio Unknown Fields.

Arseny Zhilyaev is an artist based in Moscow and Venice. His projects examine the legacy of Soviet museology and the museum within the philosophy of Russian Cosmism.