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Diana Ali is a British-Bangladeshi artist. She has worked in mixed media painting, photography and installation. She has exhibited in London, Russia and Tehran. Her concerns are the subversion of the material, shifting identities and exploring artists’ responses from the local to the global. Currently she is doing work based on curating as art practice.

Omair Barkatulla is a London based documentary filmmaker. Omair completed his BA at the University of the Arts and MA at Goldsmiths College in London.

Victoria Bean is a Canadian born artist, who lives and works in the UK. Her work features text and prose, and has been shown and collected by a number of galleries and individuals. Victoria completed a BA at the Camberwell College of Arts and an MA at the Royal College of Art. Victoria has launched 'arc artist editions' with Sam Winston and Karen Bleitz.

Laura Braun is a photographer who explores urban spaces and the relationship between the urban and rural. Laura was born in Stuttgart, Germany and currently lives and works in London. She completed her BA Hons Art and Design at Central St. Martin's College in 2003 and her MA in Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths College in 2005. Her work has been exhibited in the UK, Germany and Spain. www.laurabraun.net

Sarah Butler is a writer and freelance literature consultant with a specific interest in the role of creative writers in the process of regeneration and urban change and development. She runs UrbanWords, a literature consultancy providing project management and consultancy in this field, as well as encouraging debate, strategic thinking, support and advocacy. She is currently nearing the end of a period of research funded by Arts Council England which will result in a web resource showcasing critical thinking and examples of best pratice, and specific project proposals in the London Thames Gateway area. www.urbanwords.org.uk

Ania Dabrowska, artist, born 1973, Poland.  Lives in London. BA Media and Communication, Goldsmiths College (2001), MA Photography, LCC, University of the Arts, London (2007).  Exhibited internationally in solo and group shows since 2001. Winner of the Observer Hodge Photographic Award 2003, selected for the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize 2007, recipient of the Wellcome Trust People Award 2008/2009).  2008 publications: Into the Open: Ania Dabrowska and John Nassari (PhotoInsight, London) and NoBody’s Perfect, Niko von Glasow and Ania Dabrowska (Elizabeth Sandmann, Germany). Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London and The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford , www.aniadabrowska.co.uk

Inua Ellams is a graphic designer, a writer, a graphic and word artist with a style as influenced by Classic literature as it is by Hip Hop culture, by the traditions and discipline of form, meter and rhyme, as by the urgency and immediacy of contemporary works. His best selling first collection of poems, titled 'Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales', was published in 2005. To date he has performed at: the Route 343 Bus, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, The National Tate, Theatres: The Albany, Oxford Play House, The Bloomsbury and more. He has been featured in The Times, Time-out, BBC 1's politics show, And at festival: The Glastonbury Music, Latitude, Kimberly, Glade Festivals and at distinguished street corners across London.

Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre is an artist of Latin American origin, based in South London since 1995. Using the ephemeral, the overlooked and the underrated as a starting point, her work creates visible and unexpected connections between things, people and places. Ana Laura is interested in public opinion, social networks and the uses of public space as a platform for self-expression and diversity.

Previous work includes: Lino Lifestyles: an oral history project with East London communities commissioned for the Whitechapel Art Gallery Centennial Exhibition, Una Sola Casa: a large scale public art project in collaboration with the Latin American Housing Coop in Lambeth and artist Inti Hernandez ; The Heart: a film about Walpole Estate in Woolwich; and We are Here to Help, a participatory piece for In-presentable Festival at La Casa Encendida, Madrid in collaboration with artist Joshua Sofaer.  

Alex Haw is an architect and artist operating at the intersection of design, research, art and the urban environment. He runs atmos, a collaborative experimental practice which produces a range of architecture and events including private houses, public buildings, videos and installations.

Isola Art Center is a self-organised collective constituted by the Isola dell'Arte association, the Out office, the Sugoe Workshop, the philisophical review Millepiani, the 'Love Difference' art movement, the inOpera Observatory art collective, together with independent artsts, curators, writers and architects. The center creates platforms for information and discussion about urban transformation, organising forms of resistance and counter proposals for an underused area of Milan, Italy - converting a former industrial building into a center for art and community life.

Matthew Gandy is a Professor of Geography at the University College of London. His research focuses on urban landscape and infrastructure with recent work in India, Nigeria and the USA. His publications include Concrete And Clay: Reworking Nature In New York City (MIT Press, 2002) and 'Learning from Lagos in New Left Review (2005).

Pamela Larocca is a London based architect. She developed her experiences around Europe, collecting projects and collaborations with  bright personalities in the fields of the architectural design and search. Pamela runs KAUDDESIGN, a flexible organisation of artists and architects.  Interested in exploring contemporary urban mobility, they develop projects that merge design and communication skills, focussing on cities such as Milan, Nepols, Florence and Buenos Aires.

David San Millán Del Río was born in 1970 in Palencia, Spain. He worked as a press photographer for various Spanish national agencies and newspapers from 1992 to 1997. He was awarded the National Cossio Press Photography Award by Castilla y León government. Shortlisted for Descubrimientos award in PHOTOESPAÑA 2005. Completed a BA Hons Photomedia by Sussex University in 2002. He lives and works in London.

Natalia Skobeeva, Craig M. Edwards, Nick Smith a group of emerging artists who recently graduated from the Postgraduate certificate in Photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.

Ilka Meyer is a Berlin based artist who creates site-specific installations that explore notions of the transitory and the situational. Projects include 'Plantpiece' an installation in disused grain silos (Mainz, Germany); 'Sandglass' in the Microgallery N!03 (Milan, Italy) and 'Transplant - Hanging Gardens' in the South Korean Biennale. www.ilkameyer.de

Louis Moreno is completing a part-time post-graduate MSc in Architectural History at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. His research interest is in studying the way markets permeate urban space and built form to construct the social relations of cities.

SDNA produces distinctive digital artwork and unusual presentation media to create immersive environments. Their main objective is to explore techniques of interaction with public spaces in order to reach a much broader and more diverse audience. By using innovative technologies and creating artwork “in situ” they aim to expand the development of digital art, integrating it into live performances and site-specific installations. Previous projects have taken place internationally from Russia to Tahiti, in London venues have included the V & A Museum, the ICA and the Whitechapel Gallery. www.sdna.tv

The Mobile Institute is a collaborative project run by artists who work in the field of Art & Ecology. The artists came together through their interest in interdisciplinary working. Penny Skerrett is an artist/curator whose practice is based on ecological thinking ie.how art relates to the natural, sociological and cultural environment. Eleanor Wynne Davis is a professional musician and community facilitor, her current practice examines the dynamics of power, through apparently casual intervention and the introduction of sound. Bram Thomas Arnold is an artist and writer whose interdisciplinary interventions, installations and performance works dream of a more Romantic disposition and seek out a more considered approach to perception and existence through poetic gestures and subtle works of humour. http://parkbenchreader.blogspot.com

Moustafa Traore was born in 1972 and belongs to the first generation of Africans born on French soil. Moustafa has a PhD in English Studies from the Sorbonne University in Paris. His thesis explored the current integration of muslims in Britain. Moustafa also writes and publishes poems, he set up the English newspaper online www.anopeneye.org that mostly deals with French news. He works as a French supply teacher in Coventry and a lecturer at Creteil University in Paris. Moustafa also works as a consultant in the UK and France, focusing on difficulties met with young descendants of immigrants in France.

Cathy Ward is an artist who has documented mobile food wagons for over a decade. The images provide an overview of the manifold areas they are sited: from urban areas to motorways, car parks and coastal areas and are a commentary on a nations food habits. Cathy received a BA Hons and MA from the Royal College of Art.  http://wagontrain.org

Gesche Wuerfel, Tristan Fennell, David Kendall are three emerging photographers who met at Goldsmiths College and work as a collective with a focus on the urban landscape. They all have a critical view on recent governmental policies, regeneration initiatives, and a changing social climate in cities, e.g. the 2012 Olympics or the treatment of homeless people.