Characters in the Theater of Everyday Life

Ellie Abrons is a principal of T+E+A+M and an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan.

Grant Gibson is a Chicago-based educator, registered architect, and founding principal of CAMESgibson, Inc., an architecture and design practice committed to creating environments and objects that are cross-pollinated with common social, political, and economic interests, as well as individual experiences and desires. Engaging the full spectrum of the discipline of architecture, Gibson is the author of “A Performed Memoir” and the architect for Hyde Park Art Center’s Creative Wing as well as Columbus House 1 in Columbus, Indiana.

Andrew Holder is an educator, occasional author, and co-Principal of the The LADG. His research interests include the construction of architecture as an inanimate subject as well as novel methods of engaging historical precedent and the production of complex form in a post-digital discipline. Andrew’s recent work has been published in Young Architects 16, Log, Pidgin, and Project. He is a frequent lecturer and guest critic at institutions across the United States and has held teaching appointments at the University of Michigan, the University of Queensland, the University of California, Los Angeles, Sci-Arc, and Otis College of Art and Design.

Ania Jaworska is an architect and educator. She currently is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture. Her practice focuses on exploring the connection between art and architecture and her work explores bold simple forms, humor, commentary and conceptual, historic, and cultural references. Jaworska’s work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, notably at the 2010 Venice Biennale, 2015 and 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago Cultural Center, MOMA, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Volume, and Chamber and Friedman Benda Galleries. She recently had the solo exhibition Chicago Works: Ania Jaworska at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and SET at Volume Gallery in Chicago. She has designed a bookstore at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in Chicago and the Entrance Pavilion for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial: Make New History. She is a 2017 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program Finalist.

John McMorrough is a researcher of contemporary architectural practices, an associate professor at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and a principal architect in studioAPT (Architecture Project Theory). McMorrough’s research is motivated by the belief that contemporary architecture, as a practice of knowledge, must constantly re-situate its productive capacities, both in its competencies vis-à-vis the specifics of building and in the reconsideration of its conceptual legacies.