Rodrigo García Gonzalez is a Designer, Architect, and Inventor. He is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Notpla, a start-up with the goal of making plastic packaging disappear.
Their first product, Ooho, is an edible bubble made of seaweed that can contain water or other liquids and has been used in sports events like the London Marathon and Roland-Garros. Notpla won Prince William’s £1,000,000 Earthshot Prize in 2022, the Grand Prix in Design at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the World Technology Award by Fortune and TIME, the WIRED start-up of the year, and the GreenTech Award. Rodrigo received his architectural degree from ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid.
He studied at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University (India), Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile), Umeå Institute of Design, Imperial College London, and the Royal College of Art. He has lectured at universities including Cornell University, CEPT, Imperial College, and the Royal College of Art. Currently, he is a visiting lecturer of Design at Kensington University and Central Saint Martins. He is part of the Jury for the Princesa de Asturias.

Maciej Siuda is an architect and designer exploring the intersection of architecture, art, and the humanities. His thesis “XYZ STRUCTURE” was presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2011) during the Archiprix award festival. He co-authored the exhibition “WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 7: The Dispute over Reconstruction,” which won the Grand Prix of the City of Warsaw for the most significant architectural achievement of the year (2015) and received the “Talking Buildings Down” award from New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture (2016). His projects include the “DEVEBERE” pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012) and “MYCOsystem,” which represented the Polish Pavilion at the XXII Triennale di Milano (2019). Among his completed works are a wooden bas-relief featured in the “Polish Table” installation at Expo 2020 in Dubai, a school in Warsaw that won the Grand Prize at the Art in Architecture Festival (2021), and a school in Jacmel, Haiti, recognized with an Acknowledgement at the Holcim Awards in Colombia (2014) as one of the eight most significant projects in South America. He also created the exhibition “Primary Forms” for the Polish Museum of Modern Art at the Thailand Biennale 2023 in Chiang Rai (2024). Currently, he is preparing the Polish Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale (2025) and the London Design Biennale (2025).