Simon Greenwold
www.media.mit.edu

Simon Greenwold is an experienced software and hardware developer who designs new ways for humans and computers to interact. He focuses on visual languages and spatial interactions through cutting-edge software and hardware interfaces that move beyond the screen. Simon Greenwold has engaged problems in the development of interactive 3D form generation and the  visualization of large, complicated data sets and models. He is currently collaborating with Michael Meredith on the development of new computational tools crossing the disciplines of computer programming, art, and architecture.

Jason Johnson
www.future-cities-lab.net

Jason Johnson is a principal at Future-Cities-Lab LLC, a design research collaborative based in the USA and Athens, Greece. Most recently FCL was awarded a "Second-Prize" for their Seoul Performing Arts Center competition entry in August 2005. Jason is a full-time faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, leading studios and research seminars in architectural design and physical computing. Jason is also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. He was born and raised in Canada. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University in 2001. While at Princeton Mr. Johnson was awarded the Graduate Thesis Prize. He has previously worked with Reiser+Umemoto Architects in New York City.

Yama Karim
www.daniel-libeskind.com

Yama Karim is a Senior Associate Architect for Studio Daniel Libeskind. He received his MArch from Columbia University in 1995 and a BA in Environmental Design from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He worked as a senior designer for Reiser-Umemoto-Reiser (RUR) Architecture PC from 1995 to 1999, and also worked for Studio Daniel Libeskind - Berlin between 1996 and 1998.  From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Karim worked as Senior Designer at Polshek Partnership Architects in New York. He has worked as a project architect for Studio Libeskind - New York, since May 2003, when the Studio moved its headquarters to New York City. Mr. Karim has been the Project Architect for the Warsaw tower, Singapore housing, Hummingbird tower in Toronto, Monaco extension, NCAC in Boston, the Fiera Milano redevelopment project, and the Freedom Tower collaboration with SOM, as well as Team Leader for the WTC Master Plan development.

Michael Meredith
www.gsd.harvard.edu

Michael Meredith is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He received his BArch from Syracuse, his MArch with distinction from the GSD and the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University. In 2000, he was awarded the Muschenheim Fellowship from the University of Michigan, where he taught in 2000-2001. From 2001 he was an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design--where he was a co-recipient of a Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant--before joining the GSD faculty in 2004. His professional practice engages interdisciplinary discourses, ranging from art to technology, producing a spectrum of design work which includes furniture, products, sound, speculative architecture projects and residences in New York, Ontario, Texas, and California. Recently he was a finalist for the design of the Pentagon 9-11 memorial and the PS1/MoMA Young Architects competition.