BU Bing, born in 1973 in Yangzhou, is the principal of One Design Inc. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree of Architecture from Tsinghua University and Yale University respectively. He joined MADA s.p.a.m. in 2000, and established One Design Inc in 2003. His works include the LVG Office Complex at Shanghai, the Wulongtan Resort at Ningbo, urban design for West Town of Zhujiajiao, art installation work Cloud Room at Beijing/Taichung/Washington DC.
Moinak Biswas (b. 1961) studied English literature at Jadavpur University and did his PhD on Indian film history from Monash University, Australia. After teaching English in a government college for four years Moinak joined the newly launched Department of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 1993. The Department was the first of its kind in India, where he took a leading part in setting up programmes and facilities. He initiated the Media Lab, a centre for art and learning through digital forms, at Jadavpur in 2008.
Engaged with the shared environmental and ethical concerns of a new generation, Atul Bhalla is a conceptual artist who examines this new generation’s relationship to water and its cultural meaning. Concerned with issues of relentless urbanization, he examines how historical as well as colonial and post-colonial urban planning and administrative policies, or lack thereof, define the manner in which the city meets water. His practice engages with many of its physical, emotive, historical, cultural, religious and political manifestations.
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English at Harvard University and the Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard. He also serves as the Senior Advisor on the Humanities to Harvard’s President and Provost. Bhabha is the author of numerous works exploring colonial and postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, and cosmopolitanism, among other themes.
