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.

Philip Grözinger was born in Braunschweig in Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1972 and lives and works in Berlin. Grözinger studied at hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (HBK) in Braunschweig. He has recently had solo exhibitions at the Gallery Michael Andersen in Copenhagen (2012) and at galleri Christiane Ehrentraut in Berlin (2014).

Emil Westman Hertz was born in 1978 and lives and works in Gudhjem and Copenhagen. He studied Eskimology at the University of Copenhagen (1999-2000) and has an MA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2008). Among other things, he has had a large solo exhibition at Horsens Art Museum in 2014. In 2012 he received the 3-year work grant from the Danish Arts Foundation.

Thorsten Sadowsky is director of the Kirchner Museum Davos in Switzerland, where in recent years he has been responsible for the museum's operation and collection of works by the internationally highly acclaimed German Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938). From 2005 to 2008, Thorsten Sadowsky was the first artistic director of Aarhus Art Building, a job he received a lot of praise for. He was then Founding Director of the recently built Museum Kunst der Westküste on the North Frisian island of Before, before agreeing to the position of director of the Kirchner Museum.

Anton Alvarez graduated from the Royal College of Art in London (2012). Alvarez originally studied art and joinery before graduating as an interior designer and furniture designer at Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm. Alvarez's work focuses on the creation of systems, tools and processes for the manufacture of objects.