Nerea Calvillo (she/her) is an architect-scholar based at the Research Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick, UK), director of spatial design office C+ arquitectas and funder of In the Air, an ongoing collaborative project to sense air (pollution). She works at the intersection between spatial design, feminist technoscience, and queer and environmental studies, and her current research is on toxic politics, pollen, atmospheres, and queer urban political ecologies. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Shanghai Biennale. She has been published in Social Studies of Science, Journal of Extreme Events and Public Culture. She is the author of Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2023).

Meredith TenHoor is an architectural and urban historian, and professor in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute. She is also editor, a founding board member, and former chair of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, a group devoted to publishing and advancing collaboratively produced scholarship in architectural theory and history. Her research examines how architecture, urbanism, and landscape design participate in the distribution of resources, and how these design practices have produced understandings of the limits and capacities of bodies; for many years, she has focused on political and architectural economies of food systems. Her current projects address the bodily and environmental impacts of building materials, the architectural imaginaries of environmental futures, and the career of the French architect Nicole Sonolet.

Jessica Varner, PhD, is currently an ACLS/Getty fellow in the history of art (2023–24) and an incoming assistant professor of landscape/ history at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Landscape Architecture. Her forthcoming book, Chemical Desires: When the Chemical Industry Met Modern Design (1870–1970), has received generous support from the Fulbright Foundation, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), National Science Foundation, Science History Institute, USC Society of Fellows, and the Graham Foundation. Her recent research includes articles, chapters, and book projects on chromium, drywall, toxicity, the EPA’s public history, synthetic chemicals in building materials, neurotoxins, and chemical modernity. She works collectively with the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI, cofounder of A People’s EPA (APE)) and Coming Clean, Inc. to seek alternatives and repair in toxics.

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