Tan Beng Kiang
Dr. Tan Beng Kiang is an educator and registered architect, advocating for participatory community design. She has led service-learning projects in Singapore and ASEAN, showcased at Archifest and the Design for the Common Good International Exhibition. Her teaching and research focus on Participatory Community Design and Planning, Aging, and Housing. A recipient of multiple teaching and design awards, including the Pacific Rim Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design (2018) for the Smile Village project, she served as a council member of the Singapore Institute of Architects and currently sits on various national committees.
Jayde Lin Roberts
Jayde Roberts is an interdisciplinary scholar of the built environment who focuses on Asian Urbanisms, Critical Heritage Studies, participatory design, Myanmar, and Southeast Asia. Her past fellowships include: 2020 Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, 2016 Fulbright US Scholar in Myanmar, and others. Her publications include: "Heritage as Boundary Object: the troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar", "The secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay, Myanmar: Dhamma-youns and wards", "Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: Nalehmu through multiple ruptures", and her monograph, Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese.
Blaž Križnik
Blaž Križnik holds a PhD in urban sociology from the University of Ljubljana. He is a associate professor at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Ljubljana. Previously, he was a professor at the Graduate School of Urban Studies at Hanyang University in Seoul and a researcher at the Institute for Spatial Policies in Ljubljana. His research interests include comparative urban studies, urban social movements and Korean studies.