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Anneli Giencke is a registered architect, founder/director of her own practice, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Architecture. With over twenty years of practical and over ten years of academic experience internationally (Europe/Asia), she has realized buildings, installations, and interdisciplinary projects. Her teaching and research challenge our understanding of architecture by experimenting with immaterial spatial aspects and representational methods. Her work is published in books like "Tectonics" and journals including SpringerNature's Nexus Network Journal and Cubic Journal. Giencke studied at Graz University of Technology and holds degrees from Munich's Academy of Fine Arts, UCL Bartlett and Westminster University. She is currently a PhD candidate and will complete her studies at RMIT this year with a full scholarship. Her research interests focus on spatial and experiential interfaces between sensual experience and physical encounters in architecture.

Tobias Klein (簡鳴謙), trained architect and artist, is Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong's School of Creative Media. His work merges CAD/CAM technologies with cultural narratives, intuitive design, and historical references. Klein established the concept of "Digital Craft," synthesizing digital and physical tools/materials as both poetic (Poïesis) and technical (Technê) expressions, challenging the traditional separation of digital and analogue making. His internationally exhibited work features in venues like the London Science Museum, V&A, Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, MoCA Taipei, and Art Basel Hong Kong. A 2020 UMAG Hong Kong retrospective, "Metamorphosis or Confrontation," showcased 15 years of his work. Klein holds a PhD (RMIT), architecture degrees from UCL Bartlett and RWTH Aachen, and previously taught at the AA and RCA in London.