Rupert Allan has been engaged in interventional design and extreme field operations since 1988. His work is characterised by creative innovation and negotiation in crisis environments across humanitarian disaster and film production. He holds a master’s degree in visual culture and anthropology from the University of Wales and associates his research with the University of Wales, the Royal Geographic Society and Médecins sans frontières, Manson Research Unit, London.

Emiliana Armano holds a PhD in economic sociology from the University of Milan. As an independent researcher, her research focuses on the intertwining of work processes and production of subjectivity into digital capitalism, with a social inquiry and co-research methodological approach. She published (with Annalisa Murgia and Maurizio Teli) Platform Capitalism e confini del lavoro negli spazi digitali (Mimesis, 2017).

Gregory Asmolov is a Leverhulme early career fellow at the Russia Institute, King’s College London. His research focuses on how information and communications technologies (ICTs) constitute the role of digital users and crowds in crisis situations. His recent project has explored how digital platforms change the nature of conflicts by allowing new forms of conflict participation including participatory mapping. He took part in the development of several crisis-related crowdsourcing projects and served as a consultant for the Internews Network.

Giovanna Astolfo is an urban researcher with an architectural theory and practice background. As a lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London, he combines research-based teaching and action learning from several contested and ungovernable urban geographies in South East Asia, the Amazon region and southern Europe, with a focus on non-conventional urbanisms, continuous displacement and migration, spatial violence and housing justice.

Tamara Bellone has degrees in mining engineering and modern Slavonic languages from the Politecnico di Torino and a PhD in geodetic and surveying sciences. She is an associate professor at the Politecnico di Torino, where she teaches surveying and data processing. She deals with data processing methodologies (robust procedures, non-parametric inference, multivariate analysis, relational matching, parsing) and/or their applications in the geodetic and geomatic field.

Camillo Boano is a professor of urban design and critical theory at the Bartlett DPU, University College London. Camillo’s research centres on the complex encounters between critical theory, radical philosophy and urban design processes, specifically engaging with informal urbanisations, urban collective actions, as well as crisis-generated urbanisms.

Ricardo Marten Caceres works as a social development specialist for the World Bank in Latin America. Previously he worked as a researcher on urban and social development planning at University College London. His experience includes the review of social safeguards in fragile contexts, including Mexico, Myanmar and the Philippines. He holds a PhD in development planning from the Bartlett DPU, University College London.

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is a professor in the Department of Geography at SUNY New Paltz. Chief editor for the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism, he teaches physical geography, gender and environment, people–environment relations and geographies of socialism and soils. His current work is on soil degradation, urban soils, contamination processes and society–environment relations. He has published widely on critical geographies and pedagogy.

Francesco Fiermonte is a staff member of the S3+Lab at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) of the Politecnico di Torino. He is an ECDL-GIS examiner, has a master’s degree in management of free software and an MSc in architecture. He worked at the University of Turin and at the Information System Consortium (CSI-Piemonte). From proprietary software, he has moved his attention towards free and open-source geographic information systems (GIS), open format and open data.

Faine Greenwood is a humanitarian technology researcher and writer, with a particular focus on drone technology, remote sensing and spatial data ethics. She has previously conducted research on operational uses for drone technology, humanitarian aid and data ethics at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) Signal Program, New America, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, the American Red Cross and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

Monika Halkort is an assistant professor of digital media and social communication at the Lebanese American University. Her research centres on the intersectional dynamics of digital materiality, race and dehumanisation in contemporary data regimes. Taking irregular migration in the Mediterranean as an example, her most recent work unpacks how conflicting horizons of death are negotiated and modelled in data, opening up new zones of non-being that have been characteristic of modern coloniality.

Bogna M. Konior is a writer and academic. She investigates how human-species identity and agency are dislocated across global technological networks and environmental crises and how digital culture registers this process. She is a lecturer in new media and digital culture at the University of Amsterdam and a postdoctoral fellow in interactive media arts at NYU Shanghai, where she teaches the class ‘After Us: Posthuman Media’.

Ed Manley is a professor of urban analytics in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. He is author of Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Science (Sage, 2018), associate editor of the journal Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy and chair of the GIScience Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society.

Garyfalia Palaiologou is a lecturer in architecture and urban studies at Loughborough University. Previously she was a research fellow at the University College London Bartlett School of Architecture at the Space Syntax Laboratory, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She holds a PhD in architectural and urban morphology from University College London. Her role in the Refugee Spaces project involved the review of existing data sources on migrants and refugees.

Maria Rosaria Prisco is a researcher at the Italian National Statistical Institute where she works on territorial and spatial statistics. She holds a PhD in economic geography and her main research interests include spatial and environmental justice and urban poverty. She is also involved in local community activities where she carries out collaborative mapping for public cultural policies.

Linda Quiquivix is a geographer, writer and translator based in California.

Pika Šarf is a junior researcher and PhD student at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. In her doctoral thesis she is exploring the interoperability of information systems with regard to freedom, security and justice in light of data protection law. Her research is focused on regulation of cyberspace, cybercrime, cyberwar, cyberespionage and privacy in the digital age.

Doug Specht is a chartered geographer (CGeog. FRGS), a senior lecturer (SFHEA) and the director of teaching and learning at the School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster. His research examines how knowledge is constructed and codified through digital and cartographic artefacts, focusing on development issues in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, where he has carried out extensive fieldwork. He also writes and researches on pedagogy and speaks on topics of data ethics, development, education and mapping practices at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He is a member of the editorial board for the journals Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture and Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman.

Aleš Završnik is senior research fellow and associate professor at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. His research interests are the intersection of law, crime, technology and fundamental rights. Recently, he edited Big Data, Crime and Social Control (Routledge, 2019) and organised the Algorithmic Justice Conference (Zürich, 2018). Currently, he is leading a research project on automated justice with the Slovenian Research Agency.