Christian Guellerin is Executive Director of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique and Honorary President of Cumulus International Association of Universities of Design.

Ruth Piquer holds a PhD in Musicology and a degree in Art History from the UCM. She is a tenured professor in the Department of Musicology at the UCM. She directs the UCM research group ‘Musical Iconography and Organology’.

Kristina Niedderer is Professor of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is Research Environment Lead for Manchester School of Art and leads DoWell–the Design for Health and Wellbeing Research Group.

Kirk Woolford is Professor of Immersive Arts and Technologies, and founding director of the Institute for Creative Technologies at Norwich University of the Arts.