Parag Tandel is a Mumbai-based artist whose practice delves into the changing ecologies and oral traditions of the city’s coastal communities. With training in sculpture, he extends his work into installations, public art, and community-led archives, often centering the experiences of fisherfolk and the fragile marine ecosystems they depend on. From the Tandel Fund of Archives, a living museum of coastal memory, to works like How to Cook ‘Bombay’ Duck in Various Ways?, his projects trace how urbanisation, overfishing, and climate change erode both environments and cultural practices. By transforming local rituals, food, and materials into contemporary art forms, Tandel creates spaces of remembrance and resistance, situating art as a vital force in reimagining resilience and ecological futures

Arthur Mamou-Mani does not see architecture as fixed form, but as a future in motion, fluid, parametric, grown from bio-based matter and shaped by digital craft. His Fab.Pub in London doubles as both laboratory and commons, where participation replaces prescription and making becomes collective. Named among the disruptors of architecture, awarded by academies and journals alike, he has carried his vision across continents, always speaking of possibility, never finality. For him, architecture is a dialogue, where ecology, technology, and community fold into a single evolving form.

Nuru Karim’s practice is where art, architecture, and technology converge into living, breathing ideas. Through NUDES, his award-winning studio, he translates computational precision into forms that respond to culture, community, and climate. His journey, from Mumbai to London to Montreal, from Zaha Hadid’s atelier to global stages like TEDx, shapes a design voice both rooted and futuristic. Each project carries the rigor of research and the lightness of imagination, rethinking how we inhabit and interact with space. Visionary yet grounded, Karim continues to expand the possibilities of architecture as a social, cultural, and environmental catalyst.