Maria Carrizosa is a Ph.D. student in Urban and Public Policy at Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. An architect and philosopher by training, her research explores alternative conceptions of urban informality, studying how a spatial understanding of informality reveals its neglected efficiency. 

Katie Detwiler is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research whose dissertation explores how the sky over northern Chile's Atacama Desert, a global hub of astronomical science, is engaged in practice as a natural, media-rich ecology and as a technical environment to be measured, shaped, and optimized via the regulation of light pollution. 

Anthony Dunne is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School and a partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby which uses design as a medium to stimulate discussion about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.

Julia Foulkes is Professor of History in the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students at The New School for Public Engagement. She investigates the intersection of arts and cities and is researching the rise of New York as a capital of culture in the 20th century. 

Meredith Hall is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at The New School for Social Research. Her dissertation research sets out to develop a theoretical framework for the sociological study of attribution—the social process of assigning credit for the creation of an idea or work.

Sreshta Rit Premnath is the 2016-17 GIDEST Artist-in-Residence. An Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Parsons, The New School for Design, he works across multiple media, investigating systems of representation and reflecting on the process by which images become icons and events become history.

Fiona Raby is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School and a partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby which uses design as a medium to stimulate discussion about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.

Hugh Raffles is Director of GIDEST and Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College.

Daniel Sauter, an artist who creates installations and visualizations dealing with the cultural and social implications of emerging technologies, is Associate Professor of Data Visualization at Parsons, The New School for Design. His research focuses on how the computational regime transforms geopolitics and humanity.

Chris Stover is Assistant Professor at The New School College of Performing Arts whose research focuses on interaction and improvisation, philosophies of time and process, and popular and folkloric musics of Brazil and Cuba. He is also an active composer and trombonist in New York City.

Miriam Ticktin is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. Her work explores the category of humanity, and the politics of who and what it includes and excludes.

Otto von Busch is Associate Professor in Integrated Design at Parsons, The New School for Design. He has a background in arts, craft, design and theory and many of his projects explore how design can mobilize community capabilities through collaborative craft and social activism in the support of social sustainability, peace, and justice.

Katinka Wijsman is a Ph.D. student in Politics at The New School for Social Research who explores the politics that shape the production of resilient coastal landscapes, with specific attention to the agency of non­humans, in Suriname, The Netherlands, and New York City.

Anze Zadel is a Ph.D. candidate in Public and Urban Policy at The Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School who investigates the role of community participation in struggles over access to resources and infrastructure in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria.

Liliana Gil is the GIDEST Program Assistant and a doctoral student in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. Her work explores improvisation and technological practices in Brazil.