SHORT CV
Independent literary scholar and critic.

She has written several books and articles on narratology, fiction, and cyberculture and has been awarded several times for her work. She attended the University of Geneva to study literature as an undergraduate, before moving to the United States in 1968. attending graduate school at the University of Utah, where she received her M.A. in Linguistics and German, alongside a Ph.D in French. She later obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego.
She has worked as a consultant and software engineer and has published over fifty articles, translated into several languages, and dedicated, in particular, to the concept of digital narrative, narrative theory, genre theory, linguistic approaches to literature, and digital culture and given numerous invited lectures. In Avatars of Story, she embraces a transmedial definition of narrative based on cognitive premises. She currently resides in Bellvue, Colorado where she worked as a Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado from 2009 to 2010 before working as a Gutenberg Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg University, from 2010 to 2011. She edited the Johns Hopkins Guide to New Media and Digital Textuality with Lori Emerson and Benjamin Robertson, which was published in 2014.

http://www.marilaur.info/vita.htm

E-mail: marilaur@gmail.com

SHORT CV
Architect

President, Astrotecture
Member of AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee (SATC)
Chair of SATC Membership Subcommittee, California, United States of America
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7504-1769
https://spacearchitect.org/marc-m-cohen/

BACKGROUND
• Licensed Architect. NASA Ames Facilities Engineering, 1979-1983.
• NASA-Ames Space Human Factors Office / Space Station Program 1983-1990.
• Advanced Space Technology Office, 1991-1994. Advanced Space Projects Branch, 1995-2006.
• Mars Exploration Programs, 1991-1997.
• SOFIA Project, 1994-1998.
• Mars Astrobiology Technology Initiative, 1999-2000.
• Mars Returned Sample Handling / Planetary Protection, 2001-2002.
• “Habot” Mobile Lunar Base Project, 2003-2006.
• NASA Space Architect Team, 2004.
• Northrop Grumman lead for lunar surface systems and integration of the lunar lander with surface systems, 2006-2010.
• Owner and principal, Cohen Astrotecture, 2010-present

ACADEMIC
• Arch.D. Design Methods, Dissertation: Problem Definition in a Participatory Design Process – University of Michigan – 1995
• Master of Archicture – Columbia University – 1977

ABin Architecture and Urban Planning, cum laude, Princeton University – 1974
https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/aerospace-engineering/spacecraft-design/orbit-interview-marc-m-cohen/

E-mail: marc-cohen25@sbcglobal.net
mc@spacearchitect.org

SHORT CV
Independent Artist / Film Director / Researcher

MA in Visual Anthropology, FCSH-NOVA (2012), BA Honors Fine Arts, Central St Martins College of Art & Design (London, 2004). In 2015 Macedo won the 1st Sonae Media Art Award with the expanded film installation ‘1989’. Macedo exhibits both nationally and internationally and works with photography, film, installation, text and sound in interdisciplinary and trans-media formats. Her first documentary essay-film Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (2012) was shot at Tate Britain and Tate Modern and shown in international film festivals and art galleries including DocLisboa (2012), the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Video Program (Amsterdam, 2012), Tate Britain (London 2012/13), MARFICI - Mar del Plata International Independent Film Festival (Argentina, 2013) and Transcinema – International Independent Film Festival, Lima (Peru, 2013). It won the First SAW Film Prize (Society for the Anthropology of Work) by the American Anthropological Association – AAA (Washington-DC, 2014). Macedo was artist in residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien International Artist Program in Berlin during the year of 2016, supported with the João Hogan Grant by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2020 the Interseccion – Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival (Corunha, Spain) dedicated a Retrospective Focus to Macedo’s film and video works.
Her work is represented in both Private and Institutional Collections such as the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, MAAT/EDP Foundation, MNAC-MC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Otazu Foundation among others. Macedo has lectured numerous Masterclasses and Communications at different Colleges and Institutions in Portugal and abroad, and taught Interdisciplinary Practices at the Photography HND at Etic, Lisbon (2021 and 2022) and Global Screens: The Transmedia Age at the joint Bachelor in TV and Cinema at Etic Lisbon / Solent University UK (2022). In 2016 “Orientalism and Reverse” – artist book – was published by Ghost and Kunstraum Botschaft, and “What is Unspoken” – an overview of the artist’s film and video work – was published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
https://www.tatianamacedo.com

E-mail: macedo.tatiana@gmail.com
www.tatianamacedo.com

SHORT CV
Architect

Guest Assistant Professor - Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto

Graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, in 1991.
Was a Trainee in the Office of Herzog & De Meuron in Basel, Switzerland.
Has had in own office in Porto, with Isabel Furtado, since 1992.
Is guest teacher of Project IV at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto since 2002.
Phd Project of Architecture with "Projecto e Contexto Pensado", University of Porto 2015
Was President of the Norther Region Section Of the Order of Architects of Portugal from 2004 to 2007.
Has selected and won several architectural awards and public Architectural competitions:
Selected for the BSI, Swiss Architectural Award, 2012
Prix Villegiature, best exterior Hotel Design with Hotel Douro 41, Castelo de Paiva (Eurostars rio Douro), 2011
Award for best building project in Lisbon SIL Exhibition with Hotel Douro 41, Castelo de Paiva (Eurostars rio Douro), 2008
Selected for FAD Awards with the Project Two Apartment Blocks, Porto
1st Price in the competition for I3S, Institute for health Innovation and Investigation, Porto University, 2009
1st Price in the competition for the Applied Nuclear Technology Center, University of Coimbra, 2002
1st Price in the competition for the Teaching Sub-unit 3, Faculty of Health, University of Coimbra, 2001
1st Price in the competition for University Residence Building III, University of Coimbra, 2001
1st Price in the competition for Central Nucleus of the Maia Campus of Science & Technology, Porto, 1993
Has given lectures, and participated in architectural exhibitions, in several countries.

http://www.serodiofurtado.com
https://www.facebook.com/SerodioFurtado?ref=hl

E-mail: jserodio@arq.up.pt
https://eapa.arq.up.pt/joao-pedro-serodio.html