Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, and Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. His major authored books include Philosophy and the Art of Writing (2022), Ars Erotica. Sex and Somaesthetics in Classical Arts of Love (2021); The Adventures of the Man in Gold (2016); Thinking Through the Body (2012); Body Consciousness (2008); Surface and Depth (2002); Performing Live (2000); Practicing Philosophy (1997); and Pragmatist Aesthetics (1992, now published in fifteen languages). Shusterman received his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford and has held academic appointments in France, Germany, Israel, China, and Japan, including honorary doctorates from universities in Denmark and Hungary. The French government honored him as a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, and he was awarded research grants from the NEH, Fulbright Commission, ACLS, Humboldt Foundation, and UNESCO.

Sarah Robinson is an architect, writer and educator. Her books, Architecture is a Verb (2021), Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment and the Future of Design with Juhani Pallasmaa (2015) and Nesting: Body, Dwelling Mind (2011) have been the first works to explicitly engage the dialogue between architecture and the embodied cognitive sciences and have been translated into five languages so far. She is the former President of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Board of Governors, Adjunct Professor in Media Design and Architecture at Aalborg University in Denmark, teaches and is on the Scientific Board of NAAD, Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design at IUAV, Venice, is an Advisory Board Member of ANFA and co-founder of the Italian Chapter.
She recently co-wrote and produced the award-winning documentary short film What Design Can Do. On her new podcast, Situated, she hosts conversations with multidisciplinary thinkers exploring how our surroundings shape us.

Vittorio Gallese MD and trained neurologist is Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy where he is Director of the Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America of Columbia University, New York, USA, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, UK, honorary member of the American College of Psychiatrists and Member of the Academia Europaea. Cognitive neuroscientist, his research focuses on the relation between the sensorimotor system and social cognition by investigating the neurobiological grounding of intersubjectivity, psychopathology, language and aesthetics. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and four books.

Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976, he joined the Architectural Association in London and in 1977 established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS. Considered one of America’s most influential architects, he is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. He specializes in seamlessly integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance.
Steven Holl has realized projects both in the United States and internationally including the Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle, Washington (1997); the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (1998); Simmons Hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2002); the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (2007); the Horizontal Skyscraper, Shenzhen, China (2009), the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark (2009); the Linked Hybrid, Beijing, China (2009); Cité de l’Océan et du Surf, Biarritz, France (2011); Reid Building at the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland (2014); the University of Iowa, Visual Arts Building, Iowa City, Iowa (2016); the Lewis Arts complex at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (2017); Maggie’s Centre Barts, London, United Kingdom (2017); the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (2018); the Glassell School of Art for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2018); The REACH, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (2019); Hunters Point Library, Queens Public Library, New York (2019); the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2020); Cofco Cultural and Health Center in Shanghai, China (2021), the Rubenstein Commons at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (2022), and Meander Housing in Helsinki, Finland (2024). 
Steven Holl received the 2016 VELUX Daylight Award in Architecture, the 2014 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award for Architecture, the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, the 2010 RIBA Jencks Award, and the first ever Arts Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in 2009.
Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He has also taught at the University of Washington, Pratt Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Tonino Griffero is full Professor of Aesthetics (University of Rome Tor Vergata), editor of book series (Sensi­bilia, Atmospheric Spaces) and the e-journal Lebenswelt. After graduating in Turin in 1982 on hermeneutics (supervisor: Gianni Vattimo), he was PhD student in Aesthetics (University of Bologna, 1988-92) and Humboldt Fellow (Heidelberg 1998-99). His studies focused initially on hermeneutics (Interpretare. La teoria di Emilio Betti e il suo contesto, Turin 1988), the cultural philosophy of Eduard Spranger (Spirito e forme di vita. La filosofia della cultura di Eduard Spranger, Milan 1990), the relationship between art, symbol and myth in Schelling’s thought (Senso e immagine. Simbolo e mito nel primo Schelling, Milan 1994; Cosmo Arte Natura. Itinerari schellinghiani, Milan 1995; L’estetica di Schelling, Rome-Bari 1996), the "power" of imagination (Immagini attive. Breve storia dell’immaginazione transitiva, Florence 2003) and then the theosophical topic of “spiritual corporeality” (Oetinger e Schelling. Teosofia e realismo biblico alle origini dell’idealismo tedesco, Segrate-Milan 2000; Il corpo spirituale. Ontologie “sottili” da Paolo di Tarso a Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Milan 2006). For about twenty years, he has been engaged in the development of an aesthetics and phenomenology of “atmospheres” (atmospherology) and felt body (Leib).

Re­cent books: Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces (London-New York 2014), Quasi-Things: The Paradigm of Atmospheres (Albany [N.Y.] 2017), Places, Affordances, Atmospheres: A Pathic Aesthetics (London-New York 2019), The Atmospheric “We”: Moods and Collective Feelings (Milan 2021), & M. Arbib, Atmosphere(s) for Architects: Between Phenomenology and Cognition (Manhattan [Kansas] 2023), Being a Lived Body. From a Neo-Phenomenological Point of View (London-New York 2024).

Aurosa is a research fellow in Aesthetics at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'. She specializes in interdisciplinary research on inhabited space, the aesthetics of dwelling, the relationship between aesthetics and design, and the one between atmosphere and architecture. In addition, in recent years, her interests have leaned towards Pragmatist Aesthetics, specifically Somaesthetics. She has taught aesthetics and design at the IUAV in Venice and landscape aesthetics at the Politecnico di Milano. She teaches digital aesthetics at the School of Architecture in the University of Naples the Federico II. She has organized two Workshops on the pragmatic application of the art world in the field of Somaesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. In 2023, she edited and translated the first Italian edition (Bononia PRESS) of Richard Shusterman's collection of writings on somaesthetics, the city, and architecture.

Bálint Veres is a tenured Associate Professor of Art and Design Philosophy at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (MOME), and holder of a prestigious stately teaching award (Apáczai Csere János-Award). Specializing in music, media, architecture, and design, he is the head of a PhD-in-practice Program at MOME Doctoral School, founder of AetmoStudio, and head of the Hungarian Forum for Somaesthetics. Formerly acted as a regular music critic and curator of contemporary music festivals. His book co-edited with Richard Shusterman, Somaesthetics and Design Culture, was out in March 2023. He initiated and organized former international conferences at MOME (Design Culture and Somaesthetics 2019; The Promise of Pragmatist Aesthetics 2022; Designing Everyday Experience 2023) and an inclusive design platform (MOME Transferlab 2012-2019).