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Gabriela Rendón is a Mexican-born architect, researcher and urban planner based in New York. Her work focusses on the study, development and implementation of policies, programmes and public instruments for urban development and restructuring and housing from a Right to the City perspective. Rendón is the co-founder of Urban Front and Cohabitation Strategies, where she has led projects in a number of cities in Europe, North America and Latin America. She currently works as Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Community Development and is the Founding Director of the Housing Justice Lab at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Portugal Triennale 2016, the Vienna Biennale 2015, the Istanbul Design Biennial 2012, and the 4th International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam. 

Pau Aleikum is a media designer and founder of Domestic Data Streamers. Since 2013, the Barcelona-based studio has researched and produced immersive “info-experiences” and GEN-AI projects for institutions such as the United Nations, Barcelona City Hall, and Citizen Lab over 45 countries. Garcia is chair of the Master in Data in Design at ELISAVA University. It is a guest lecturer at the SVA in NY, the Hong Kong Design Institute, the Royal College of Arts in London, and the Barcelona School of Economics. In 2021, he founded HeyHuman!, an artist residency program that combines music, journalism, data for art research, and social justice. He typically doesn't speak in the third person.

Martí Guixé (Barcelona, 1964). Trained in Barcelona and Milan as an industrial and interior designer. In 1994, while living in Berlin, he formulated a new way to understand product culture. In 1997, he started to exhibit his work, characterised by the search for new product systems that alter lifestyles, the introduction of design in the field of food and presentation through performance. His unconventional approach offers brilliant and simple ideas, earning him awards such as the International FAD Award for Architecture 2014, the National Culture Award of the Generalitat 2007 and the City of Barcelona Design Award 1999.

Since 2023, he has been the director of Food Design studies at the Scuola Politecnica di Milano, SPD. Since 2021, he has been the curator of the Collection of Unevaluated Essays by Corraini Edizioni. Prior to this, between 2019 and 2023, he curated art, craft and design exhibitions at La Galleria Nazionale de Roma.

He has exhibited at a number of museums including the MoMA in New York, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Triennale in Milan, the MART in Rovereto, the Centre Pompidou in París, the Mudac in Lausanne, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Roma, the National Museum of Victoria in Melbourne, Performa09 in New York, the Design Museum in London, the Fondation pour l'Architecture in Brussels, the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, the Z33 in Hasselt, the MARTa in Herford, the Museum für Gestaltung in Zúrich, the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva and Magasin 3 in Stockholm.

His work is included in the collections of the Barcelona Design Museum, the MoMA in New York, the MAK in Vienna, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Múnich, the Israel Museum of Jerusalem, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and the FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

The work of artist Maider López involves intervening in public spaces and architecture. Her work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at the Venice, Istanbul, Sharjah and Prospect biennales. She has created projects in public spaces such as Ataskoa, Polder Cup and Playa, and has participated in exhibitions such as:

Arnasa, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (2022); Hummings, KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark (2021); Arnasa, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (2020); Art is happening, Statens Konstrad, Sweden (2019); Prospect 4. Contemporary Art Triennial. New Orleans (2017); 1645 Tizas. Matadero Madrid (2016); Desplazamiento. Koldo Mitxelena y MARCO (2015); Play Time. Les Ateliers de Rennes, 4a biennale d'art contemporain. Rennes. France. (2014); Mom, I am Barbarian? 13 Istanbul Biennale (2013); Mountain. Lower Austria Contemporary (2013); Polder Cup, Skor and Witte de With, Holland (2010); Eclats, Centro Pompidou-Metz (2010), Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE (2009); Line of sight, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2008); SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space, New Zealand (2008); AdosAdos, Guggenheim Bilbao (2007); Columnes, Caixa Forum, Barcelona (2006) and 51 Venice Biennale (2005).

Maitena Salinas has a degree in Communication Sciences, a postgraduate degree in Human Rights from the UPV (University of the Basque Country), an expert in Coaching and Mentoring from the UNIR (International University of La Rioja), a Mentor-Coach accredited by the EMCC European Mentoring and Coaching Council, a degree in Culture of Health from Harvard University, and an Inclusive Leadership degree from Carlos III University.

She has been working in the media for 25 years as a journalist, specialized in human rights, and has had a parallel career as an actress and health coach. From this professional triad, she develops her method of mentoring in communication for teams and professionals in the business world, working with both startups and consolidated companies at a national level, in areas such as effective communication, business leadership, team management and health culture. She is a regular speaker at international congresses on various topics, and her priorities include professional accompaniment to promote the positive evolution of people and society, always taking care of their own and their environment’s health and social inclusion.

Pez Estudio is the team of female architects, the curators of BBDW24. Since 2006, they have produced urban development, architecture, design and research-action projects from a feminist, participative and ecological approach. They seek to minimise people’s impact on the environment, to develop more inclusive cities with gender perspective, and to promote the use of biological systems and natural materials and the generation of contexts of collaboration.

Their work has received international awards from entities including Arquia Próxima, the Caribbean Architecture Biennale, the Architecture Biennial of Santo Domingo and the Holcim Foundations Awards. Their work has been developed in a number of institutions and programmes at international level including the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the MoMA in New York, the Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture, Medialab-Prado and Intermediae Matadero Madrid.

Elisa de los Reyes García is an architect and the co-founder of Pez Estudio, of the Wikitoki laboratory of Collaborative Practices in Bilbao and the Inteligencias Colectivas/Zoohaus project. She is part of the teaching team of the Masters Design for Change at IED Kunsthal and has held conferences and workshops in Europe and America (Parsons The New School NY, MoMA NY, Matadero Madrid, Medialab Prado, CCE in Lima, Santo Domingo, Chile, etc.).

Understanding the dance floor as an opportunity to connect and collectivise, Puñales has developed a sound universe centred on a diversity of rhythms and sounds from the African and Afro-Caribbean diaspora. From dance hall to gqom, from global bass to UK funk, and from Carioca funk to guaracha, his selection ensures the dancefloor is always on fire.

She has played in venues such as Laboratorio Octogon, El Crystal, Dabadaba and Jimmy Jazz, at parties such as Nexo Malito, Autotune or Barbarie and Raks, and at festivals such as 1000gradutan. She has shared the booth with artists such as BRAVA, Ms Nina, Flaca and Highkili.

She is in the VUTRON collective, in which they seek to experiment on the dance floor with sounds, movements and space through the sound system, while seeking to weave networks within the Bilbao scene.