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Revital Cohen recently attained a Masters in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London, which followed a BA in Contemporary Furniture Design from Buckinghamshire New University. As a designer and researcher she develops critical objects and provocative scenarios exploring the juxtaposition of the natural with the artificial.

Dunne&Raby – Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby – use design as a medium to stimulate debate among designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.

Troika is a multi-disciplinary art and design practice founded in 2003 by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel, who met while studying at the Royal College of Art in London.

Thomas Thwaites is a designer whose work examines how technology, science and economics interact with trends, fictions and beliefs to shape our present, and possible futures. As an undergraduate he studied economics and biology at University College, London, and this training informs his design work.

Harry Pearce joined Pentagram’s London office as a partner in 2006 having co-founded and grown Lippa Pearce to become one of the UK’s most respected design agencies over the previous 16 years.

Dutch product designer Tord Boontje first studied industrial design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven before completing his Masters at the Royal College of Art in London. He founded Studio Tord Boontje in London in 1996, before relocating to France in 2005.

Nadav Kander creates unfailingly beautiful photographs with the formal precision of a master photographer through genres as diverse as portraiture, landscape and still life.

Teresa Roviras has lived and worked in London since she graduated from Elisava Design School in Barcelona in 1987. She joined Michael Nash Associates, where she remained for six years, and in 1993 she jointly received a gold D&AD her collaboration on the packaging for Harvey Nichols’ Food Hall.

Born in 1947, Erik Spiekermann studied history of art and English in Berlin.

Michael Mack was born in Zimbabwe and moved to England in 1980 where he trained and worked as a lawyer. In 1989 he moved to Paris and then left law to study an arts MA. Now based in London, he is a freelance art director, editor, curator and writer.