Will Thomson Illustrator & Editor

Matt Davies is a Reader in International Political Economy at Newcastle University (UK) and Professor Visitante at the International Relations Institute of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). His work has engaged with cultural imperialism, precarity and unprotected workers in the international political economy, and popular culture and world politics. His current research focuses on urbanism and cities as spaces of world politics.

Will Thomson is an anthropologist and interdisciplinary researcher at Newcastle University, where he was a postdoctoral researcher for the TF/TK project. He received his PhD at New York University in socio-cultural anthropology. His ethnographic fieldwork has focused on Chinese migrant construction labour and the global building industry.

Katie Lloyd Thomas is a Professor of Theory and History of Architecture at Newcastle University and a founder member of the feminist collective taking place www.takingplace.org.uk. Her research is concerned with materiality, labour and technology, as in her most recent publication Building Materials: Material theory and the architectural specification (2021).

João Marcos de Almeida Lopes is a Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism – IAUUSP (2024-2028) of the University of São Paulo. He is a member of the Housing and Sustainability Research Group (HABIS). He was a Principal Investigator of Translating Ferro/Transforming Knowledge (TF/TK). He is the author of Geodesics and Co., with Vitor Amaral Lotufo (1981) and of Engineering Architectures or Architecture Engineering, with Marta Bogéa and Yopanan C. P. Rebello (2006). He is the author of several articles on popular housing, construction technologies, and construction history. He is one of the founders of the USINA – Work Centre for the Inhabited Environment, where he remains as an associate.