Philip Beesley is a practicing visual artist, architect, and Professor in Architecture at the University of Waterloo and Professor of Digital Design and Architecture & Urbanism at the European Graduate School. Beesley’s work is widely cited in contemporary art and architecture, focused in the rapidly expanding technology and culture of responsive and interactive systems.He serves as the Director for the Living Architecture Systems Group, and as Director for Riverside Architectural Press. His Toronto-based practice, Philip Beesley Studio Inc., works in numerous collaborations including longstanding exchanges with Iris van Herpen.

Rob Gorbet is a key member of Gorbet Design, a design firm and consultancy specializing in public interactive artwork and experiences, and also collaborates with other designers, artists, and architects including within the LASG. Gorbet’s LASG collaborations have been exhibited across the world and have won several awards, including the international FEIDAD and VIDA 11.0 first prize, and being selected to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. His work has been featured in major print and online media, and on the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. 

Rob’s teaching includes courses on microcontrollers, control systems, museum exhibit design, and technology art. Formally trained as an electrical engineer, Rob is an interdisciplinarian, a mechatronics specialist, an award-winning teacher and a technology artist.

Matt Gorbet is an interdisciplinary technologist, researcher and artist who specializes in physically interactive technology experiences.
Before founding Gorbet Design, Inc., Matt was a researcher at PARC, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where his team designed and studied new document genres enabled by emerging technologies. Matt earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from MIT and a Master of Science from the MIT Media Lab. He has several patents on novel interaction technologies.

Matt’s Doctorate of Design at FIU CARTA is focused on control strategies for interactive objects and environments. He works closely with the Living Architecture Systems Group and has exhibited technology artwork worldwide.

Susan is a futurist, designer and educator who mentors organizations on integrating design, business and futures thinking. She has developed transformative programs that brought futures thinking, design thinking, and facilitation to leaders and teams on six continents. She led the development of a design curriculum for Shad Canada that has incited thousands of secondary students to believe that they can change the world.

Susan holds a Master of Design from OCADU’s Strategic Foresight and Innovation program, and she has taught futures thinking, design thinking, facilitation and innovation to corporate leaders, MBA students and undergraduates. Previously, Susan spent many years with her partners at Gorbet Design building architectural-scale artworks that create connections between spaces, people and ideas. Before that, Susan spent a decade designing software in Silicon Valley where, after a short foray into graduate research at Stanford, she evangelized experience design at both enterprises and startups.