Aggie Toppins is a graphic designer and published critic who writes about design in social and cultural contexts. She appraises the roles of history and historicism in the field, advocating for methodologies that illuminate design’s social performativity. Her writing embraces design narratives decoupled from universalism and capitalism, drawing on intersectional feminism and materialist theory to explore questions of activism, taste, and meaning-making. During her residency program, she worked on Thinking Through Graphic Design History: Challenging the Canon, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2025. 
https://aggietoppins.com

Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker working with film as an instrument. Composed as film-poems, her films walk along territories and events haunted by the ever-lasting impacts of internal and external forms of colonialism and their imprint on land, human and other-than-human forms of life. Her films have been screened in film festivals and institutions such as the Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Jeu de Paume, LUX Moving Images, NYFF and IFFR. Recent exhibitions include Sheherazade, at night, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), 12th Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions (Tokyo), and 36th Panorama of Brazilian Art “Sertão” at MAM – Museum of Modern Art (São Paulo)
https://www.vimeo.com/anavaz