Hayley Eber (b. Johannesburg, South Africa) is an architect, designer and educator. She is the Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute, as well as the Principal of Studio Eber, an award-winning New-York based practice for architecture and design. Studio Eber (previously EFGH) was founded in 2008 and actively engages projects that seek to expand the boundaries of architecture, through the design of buildings, interiors, objects, environments and installations. Prior to joining Van Alen Institute, she served as Acting Dean (2022–25) and Associate Dean (2019–22) of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.

She previously worked at Diller Scofidio and Renfro in New York, where her experience ranged from temporary installation and media work, performance, architectural competitions and large scale urban projects, most notably the High Line. Prior to joining DS+R, she worked at Eisenman Architects in NY on The Arizona Cardinals Stadium and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and at Wiel Arets Architects in Maastricht on the Utrecht University Library.

She holds a Masters in Architecture from Princeton University School of Architecture, a Bachelors of Architecture from the Cooper Union, and a BAS from the University of Cape Town. She is a licensed architect in the state of New York. She previously taught at Princeton University (2013-19) and Columbia University GSAPP.

Corinne Jones (b.1972 Memphis, TN) has lived and worked in New York city since 1991. She earned an MFA from Columbia University in 2007 and a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in 1996. Jones has realized public art projects at Situations Gallery, New York; Elizabeth Street Garden, New York; Madison Park, Memphis; and Huling Street, Memphis. She has exhibited solo shows at Situations Chelsea, New York; Jackie Klempay, Brooklyn; Museum of America Books, Brooklyn; and Tops Gallery, Memphis. She has participated in various group shows including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Tate Modern, London; and BWA Wroclaw Galleries of Contemporary Art, Warsaw. Her work is held in many private and public institutions including the permanent collections at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University; The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts; New York Presbyterian Hospital; and TD Bank. Her artwork has received critical praise from The New Yorker, Art News, Art Slant, Artcore Journal, Ravelin, The Brooklyn Rail and Cultured Magazine.

Installation view: "Allegory of the Unnamed Cave," 2020

Kayla Montes de Oca is a designer, researcher, and educator from Miami, Florida based in Brooklyn, New York. Her research examines how residents sustain tradition and build legacy while understanding how policy and design decisions impact communities over time. This work includes examining how the meaning of home is reconfigured in the changing city through the history of New York City Housing Authority complexes and exploring public memory through land use and zoning of New York City cemeteries. She has also conducted research at the Radcliffe Institute mapping genealogical connections of enslaved people in the North.
 
Kayla has worked in curation and programming through Artist Space and Storefront for Art and Architecture. She is also involved in bringing architectural education to younger audiences as a Design Educator at the Center for Architecture and a Teaching Artist through Young Audiences New York.
 
Kayla received her B.Arch from Cooper Union and has a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

Kayla's CV is available here.

fields harrington is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He works across disciplines and media to investigate the social and political dimensions of race, value, and the complex history of science. fields studied at San Antonio Community College and received his BFA from the University of North Texas and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program (2019-2020). He has presented solo exhibitions at David Salkin Gallery (2020), and Y2K Group (2021). He has also exhibited in group shows at Parsons School of Design, Recycled Artist In Residence, 52-07 Flushing Avenue, and Automat Gallery. fields harrington was a L.A.B. researcher in residence at The Kitchen in collaboration with The School for Poetic Computation (2023) and participated in the research residency Site to be Seen at RAIR (2021), He currently teaches at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School, Parsons School of Design, and The Cooper Union.