Sebastián Trujillo-Torres is a designer, researcher, and lecturer with extensive professional experience in Colombia and India. His field of practice ranges from the engineering of design methodologies and constructive processes, to the elaboration of adaptive objects and spatialities. He co-founded Chaal.Chaal.Agency, a design-research collaborative project that investigates issues and potentialities particular to Global South urbanisms as templates for global imaginations, with the aim of triggering larger transformations through small-scale interventions.

Kruti Shah is an architect, researcher, and academician based in Mumbai, India, and founding partner of Chaal.Chaal.Agency. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the Academy of Architecture, Mumbai, and later pursued her postgraduate studies at CEPT University, where she earned a Master’s degree in Architectural Design and was awarded the Erasmus+ fellowship.

She has been invited to speak at many institutions worldwide, including Carnegie Mellon University, the Politecnico di Milan, Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, Virserum Konsthall (Sweden), School of Environment and Architecture (Mumbai), and FOAID (Delhi). She has been a co-recipient of the DXD–Sanskriti Fellowship 2022 and was selected as an artist for the ‘Beyond the Blueprint’ initiative by KHOJ International Artists’ Association.

Most recently, she was selected among 80 women architects to showcase her work as part of the ‘Samatva: Shaping the Built’ Pavilion at the India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale 2024 in Delhi.