Jose Sanchez is the creator of the video games Block’hood and Common’hood, digital social platforms that aid the authoring of architectural and ecological thinking to non-expert audiences. He is the author of the book “Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms” published by Routledge in 2020 and the co-creator of Bloom, a crowdsourced interactive installation which was the winner of the Wonder Series hosted by the City of London for the 2012 Olympics. He has taught in renowned institutions in the United States and in Europe, including the Architectural Association in London, The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, at the University of Southern California. He is currently at the University of Michigan, where he is an Associate Professor at the Taubman College School of Architecture. His research “Architecture for the Commons” designs and interrogates social media platforms as tools with the potential to author architectural content in the public domain.
Nick Puckett is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Digital Futures undergraduate program at OCAD. He is also the founding director of Puckett Research & Design, a design practice that explores near-future speculative design for the built environment through the creation of new tools and technologies that radically alter the process and product of design. This collaborative research spans software, robotics, biological agents, chemical engineering, and material behaviour to generate new potentials for the design of intelligent environments.