Leslie Wolke is a wayfinding technology consultant and writer. She has developed innovative wayfinding solutions for nationally recognized healthcare institutions. She writes about the intersection of design, architecture and technology. During her 20 years in the technology and design fields, she has held leadership positions in the development, operations, and marketing of web-based portals and applications at frogdesign, Hoover’s Online, and ATT. Leslie received a B.A. in Art History from The University of Chicago, with a specialization in architectural history and theory. She has served as a Visiting Critic at the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, and at the Haas School of Business, The University of California at Berkeley. She is the founding chair of Xlab, an annual conference on technology and the built environment. At SXSW 2014, she presented a session urging designers and developers to create new ways for museum-goers to interact with art they encounter.

Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based journalist and critic. She covers art, architecture, urbanism and design for Fast Company, Dwell, and The New York Times. She’s an opinion columnist for Dezeen and a contributing editor at Architect. Zeiger is author of New Museums, Tiny Houses and Micro Green: Tiny Houses in Nature. She’s lectured internationally on “The Interventionist Toolkit”, a series of articles on alternative urbanist practice she wrote for Places Journal.

Zeiger is editor and publisher of loud paper, a zine and blog dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse. She is currently adjunct faculty in the Media Design Practices MFA program at Art Center and co-president of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.