Stephen Inglis was Executive Director of the Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute from 2010 until 2015. Before joining this leading First Nations organization, he was researcher, curator and then Director-General of Research and Collections at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, responsible for the content areas of Canada's national museum of ethnology and history. During this time he helped create an international reputation for the museum and developed an extensive network of national and overseas partners, leading to major acquisitions and traveling exhibitions. He contributed extensively to the museum's research and collections of folk and popular art, fine craft, and ethnic studies. Since completing his PhD in anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Stephen Inglis has taught both Anthropology and Art History at Carleton and, since 2015, has been closely involved with the Curatorial Studies Program.

Mario Santana-Quintero is a Civil and Environmental Engineering professor cross-appointed with the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism (Carleton University). He is the Director of the NSERC Create program Heritage Engineering and a Carleton immersive Media Studio Lab (CIMS) faculty member. Besides his academic work in Canada, he is a guest professor at the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (University of Leuven). Along with his academic activities, he serves as Secretary-General of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He is one of the ICOMOS Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation (CIPA) presidents. He has collaborated in several international projects in heritage documentation for The Getty Conservation Institute, UNESCO among others. In recent years he was a Getty Scholar. He was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Liege (Belgium) and membership of the Association of Preservation Technology College of Fellows.

Brian Greenspan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, the doctoral program in Cultural Mediations, and the Master’s program in Human-Computer Interaction at Carleton University, and teaches in the M.A. Specialization and B.A. (Minor) in Digital Humanities. He is founding Director of the Hyperlab, Carleton’s premiere Digital Humanities research facility, and an executive member of the Society for Utopian Studies. His scholarship focuses on spatial storytelling and the utopian dimensions of new media, including e-literature and XR media. He invented the StoryTrek locative authoring system for spatial stories, mobile exhibits and digital games, which has been used by artists, scholars, and students in Anchorage, Belfast, Charlottetown, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Montréal, Msida, New York and elsewhere.

Louise Pelletier was trained as an architect. She received her PhD in the history and theory of architecture from McGill University in 2000. She has been teaching at the UQAM School of Design in Montreal since 2006, where she is also Director of the UQAM Design Centre. She is the author of Architecture in Words; Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture (Routledge 2006), and co-author of Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge (MIT Press, 1997) and Theatrical Space as a Model for Architecture (McGill Libraries, 2003). She is also the author of Downfall: The Architecture of Excess (2014), a novel that reflects on issues of contemporary architectural practice.

Carolina Dayer, Ph.D and Architect, is assistant professor of architecture at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark and Design Associate Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education. Her research, teaching, and design work centers on the theory and practice of architectural drawing, material culture and habitation. Her co-edited books Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture (Routledge, 2016) and Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design (Routledge, 2018) expose the wide range of her research and interests. Her personal drawings and pedagogical work have been exhibited in Argentina, United States and Denmark, and her current research and artist project, Insiders, examines the cultural production of interior space from the view of 19th century female painters.

Liam Doherty is a sessional lecturer teaching ASIA 386 & 396 (Chinese Grammar and Usage I & II). He has a background in Chinese as an Additional Language Education and a particular interest in digital literacy and multilingualism, corpus linguistics, and the use of open data-driven digital tools to help better understand, learn, and teach languages. His current research examines peer mentorship among Chinese language learners in an online context. He is a member of the Centre for Research in Chinese Language and Literacy Education (CRCLLE) at UBC.

Maize Longboat is Kanien'kehá:ka with family at Six Nations of the Grand River and was raised on the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation near Vancouver, BC. He is a Partner Relations Manager with Unity Technologies and served as Skins Workshops Associate Director with Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) from 2019 to 2021. He holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University. His Master’s research examined Indigenous videogame development through the production of his own game Terra Nova, award-winning cooperative platformer with an interactive narrative.

Dylan Paré is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Learning Sciences at the University of Calgary, Werklund School of Education. They are the Founder and Director of Queer Code, an award-winning studio that designs and researches virtual reality and interactive computer-based learning environments for learning about issues related to gender, sexuality, and intersecting marginalization. Dylan's primary research project reimagines computational literacies by interweaving community storytelling with scholarship on complexity studies, embodied learning, and queer and trans phenomenology.