Curator, writer and producer Ikko Yokoyama was born in Japan and now resides in Stockholm. Yokoyama is an exhibition director at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, and is the co-founder of Editions in Craft, a platform that invites artists, designers and craftsmen to project collaborations. As a freelance curator, she has worked for institutions such as IASPIS, Liljevalchs Konsthall and the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, and recently curated the exhibition The Fab Mind at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in the Japanese capital. She regularly contributes to various Japanese cultural magazines, and has, among other things, authored a book about the Swedish ceramic artist Lisa Larson, published by the publisher PIE BOOKS. Yokoyama has been a board member of the Moderna Museum's Vänner since 2008.

Carsten Juel-Christiansen was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture in Copenhagen, where he teaches and was appointed professor in 1994. He has also served as a practising architect in his own design studio. He also had a visiting professorship at the Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. He was commissioner of the Danish contribution to the International Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2000.

Ditte Hammerstrøm was born in Copenhagen in 1978 and lives and works in Copenhagen. She is educated at the Danish School of Design as an industrial designer. Since 2008, Hammerstrøm has been represented in the Designmuseum Denmark's permanent collection with "Chair for the Person Wishing to be Heard". In 2009 she received the 3-work grant from the Danish Arts Foundation and in 2011 the Finn Juhl Prize.