Tony Fry is a design philosopher, cultural theorist, writer, and award-winning designer. He has held academic position and directed research projects in Australia and internationally. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor, Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, Visiting Professor, Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia, and director, Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania. Tony’s research interests span: futures, cities and sustainment, post-conflict/post development, the political, the Anthropocene, and the post-natural life. As a consultant he has worked for government, the private sector and NGOs. Tony is the author of fifteen books, numerous essays and the editor many collections.

Madina Tlostanova is a transdiasporic decolonial thinker and fiction writer, professor of postcolonial feminisms at the Department of Thematic Studies (Gender studies) at Linköping University (Sweden). She focuses on decoloniality, feminisms of the Global South, indigenous cosmologies, postsocialist sensibility and arts. She was a DAAD visiting professor in the University of Bremen (2006, 2011), an international researcher at Duke University (2007), a visiting scholar at Linköping University (2013) and Södertorn University (2014). She has authored 10 monographs, over 270 journal articles and book chapters, published in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish, Chinese, Croatian and other languages. Her most recent books are Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re-existence (Palgrave, 2017), What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (Duke University Press, 2018) and A New Political Imagination, Making the Case (co-authored with Tony Fry, forthcoming, Routledge, 2020).