Brian McGrath is an architect and co-founder of urban-interface, which explores relationships between urban design, ecology and multi-media. McGrath teaches at Columbia and Parsons in New York City and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Thailand in 1998/99 and is currently a co-investigator with the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and is a New School Faculty Fellow with the India China Institute.

Jean Gardner is Senior Faculty, Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting, Parsons. Her course 'Issues and Practices in Architecture and Urbanism' received special recognition in the 2005 National AIA Ecological Literacy Initiative. Co-chair of the ACSA Task Force on Sustainable Design, she helped organise 'Sustainable Pedagogies and Practices', the 2003 ACSA/AIA Teachers' Seminar. With The Rockwell Group, she exhibited 'the Hall of Risk', 2002 Venice Biennale.