MICHAEL SILVER is the Director of Digital Media at the Yale School of Architecture as well as a Lefevre Research Fellow for The Knowlton School of Architecture in Columbus, Ohio.  He also directs The Office of Research and Development, a multidisciplinary design laboratory with extensive experience in the design of furnishings, consumer products, websites and buildings.  The Office is committed to the precise alignment of advance technology, visionary consciousness, architectural theory, academic scholarship and the logitistics of building production, and carries out pioneering research in the field of digital mapping and architectural design.

DIANA BALMORI founded landscape and urban design firm Balmori Associates Inc in 1990.  Her work is particuarly geared to the design of urban public space.  She teaches at the Yale School of Architecture and at the Yale School of the Environment, and has brought about courses joining the two.  Her projects have been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Seventh Floor Gallery (New York City), Yale School of Architecture and Bard College.