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José Pérez de Lama Ph.D in Architecture. Associate Professor, Department of Architectonic History, Theory and Composition at the Universidad de Sevilla, where he teaches Architectonic Composition and Architecture and the Environment. He has done graduate studies at UCLA (1987-88) and Harvard University (1988).
Author, with the Seminar on Bioclimatic Architecture at the Universidad de Sevilla, of the Study for Bioclimatic Adaptation of Open Spaces at the 1992 EXPO in Seville. Winner of the International Contest 25 Bioclimatic Houses for the Island of Tenerife (with B. Sánchez-Montañés and A. Ballesteros, 1995). City of Seville Research Award for his Biography of the Mediterranean Courtyard (1995).
Author of the book Devenires cíborg. Arquitectura, urbanismo y redes de comunicación (Universidad de Sevilla, 2006) and co-editor of El Gran Pollo de la Alameda. Una docena de años de lucha social en el barrio de la Alameda, Sevilla (2006) and of Fadaiat. Libertad de movimiento, libertad de conocimiento (2006).
Since 2001, he has been a member of the group hackitectura.net, (with Sergio Moreno and Pablo de Soto), with whom he has carried out architectonic and artistic works and research about the relations among architecture, digital space and society. His latest productions with hackitectura.net include Fadaiat (Tarifa-Tangiers, 2004 and 2005), TCS2 Geogarfías Emergentes (Extremadura, 2007), the organization of the "Jornadas de media-arquitectura. Un jardín de microchips, una wikiplaza" (Seville, 2007), and First Prize, in collaboration with José Morales, Sara de Giles and Esther Pizarro, at the international contest for the construction of the Plaza de las Libertades, Seville (2006)

Pablo de Soto is a researcher and practioner in fields of media-architecture and social cybernetics. With Sergio Moreno and José Pérez de Lama, he forms the core of hackitectura.net, a collaborative network that undertakes practical and theoretical research into the emerging territories of information and communication technologies, new social networks and the traditional physical space. hackitectura.net has produced such events as La multitud conectada and Fadaiat (Tarifa - Tangiers). He promotes the Technology Observatory the Straits and has edited a collaborative book about Fadaiat: freedom of movement, freedom of knowlodge. He has curated Emergent Geographies, second edition of Technology, Creativity and Society in Extremadura and is currently working on Situation Room at La Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón. He has recently finished his Master's degree of Architecture at KTH Stockholm.