Ali T. As’ad is a researcher, curator, educator, and architect (Amsterdam). He is also editor-in-chief of the MAKAN Journal of Culture & Space, a trilingual journal that critically engages with contemporary architectural and urban conditions. as well as broader scholarship emanating from or focused on, exploring the SWANA region. Ali is currently focused on his doctoral research project which examines the praxis of Palestinian exhibition-making and museum practice; a study which is situated within a broader interrogation of the incongruity between the political space of the state and the cultural space of the nation in the 21st century condition.

Thomas Bellinck is a theater and exhibition maker (Brussels). His work focuses on political history, state violence, confinement, and injustice in international mobility. As a doctoral researcher in the arts, Thomas works at KASK & Conservatory (Ghent). In recent years, Thomas has been involved in the creation of various speculative-museological projects, such as a futuristic-historical museum about life in the former European Union, the participatory ‘Counter-Museum of Individual Liberties,’ and the ongoing ‘Museum of Human-Hunting.’ The ever-evolving collection of this latter project unravels contemporary practices of hunting people within the context of EU border policies.