Chair: Will Hunter, Deputy Editor of The Architectural Review.

Sir Peter Cook has been Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dean of Architecture at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Chair of Architecture at the Bartlett School of UCL and is Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Architecture. As member of Archigram he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the RIBA and was knighted in 2007. He now directs Crab Studio with Gavin Robotham.

Carlo Ratti is a civil engineer and architect who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory, which aims to investigate and anticipate how digital technologies are changing the way people live and their implications at the urban scale. He is a regular contributor of articles on architecture to the magazines Domus and Casabella and the Italian newspapers Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa.