Kristjana Adalgeirsdóttir is an architect and a doctoral candidate at Aalto ARTS. Her research focus is on humanitarian architecture, sustainable project management in emergencies and cultural sensitivity in reconstruction after disasters. Kristjana is an international Red Cross shelter delegate and an emergency response team member in ShelterBox- Disaster Aid. She has broad field experience from shelter responses after natural disasters, in the Philippines (2018 & 2020), Kenya (2018) and from reconstruction projects after conflicts, in Iraq (2019). Kristjana is a former board member of Architecture Sans Frontières International (ASF Int). At Aalto, Kristjana has since 2016 mentored master-level student teams in the multidisciplinary SGT program (Sustainable Global Technology). Projects based in refugee settlements in Greece, reconstruction sites after the earthquake in Nepal and currently, on WASH (water and sanitation) related issues in refugee camps in Tanzania. Kristjana´s recent publication (2021) looked at the long-term aspects of culturally integrated recovery after disasters: It included a study of the houses that were imported, as an emergency response, from the Nordic countries to Iceland nearly 50 years ago, the story of the houses and their inhabitants. In the RESCUE project, WP2, Kristjana focused on a holistic approach to individual and community resilience. She conducted interviews with families in various countries that have lost their homes due to disasters, and with other experts in the field, to evaluate the main factors leading to a resilient built environment, that supports the wellbeing of its inhabitants, in both the pre-disaster, response and recovery phases.

Jonathon Taylor is a lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development with a PhD in Environmental Building Science, from University College London, UK. He contributed to WP4 of the RESCUE project. His research interests are in building physics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and healthy and energy-efficient housing. In particular, he has researched population-level exposure to poor indoor air quality, disease transmission risks, indoor heat and cold exposures, and moisture in the built environment; climate change and housing adaptation; and informal housing in the global south. ​He is an author of over 41 journal papers and is a contributor to the 2019 Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health, and the United Kingdom Climate Change Risk Assessment Evidence Reports, 2017 and 2022.

Suvi Nenonen works both in practice and academia in future learning and working environments in property management and brought her expertise in change management and user participation in co-creation to WP4. She also researches the usability of the built environment as well as the methods of how to develop both digital and physical working and learning environments. She is also in charge of research, development and innovation activities at the University Properties of Finland Ltd.

Jenni Poutanen, architect (MSc.), is a university instructor in Architectural Design in the School of Architecture at Tampere University. She prepares her PhD in learning spaces in higher education. She contributed to WP4. Her research focuses on user-centric design, socio-spatial qualities and transformation of the existing facilities for contemporary and future needs of learning in order to support the life cycle of campus buildings. The work is framed by the sharing of facilities, adaptable spaces and effectiveness of design solutions. Her project research topics include spatial interventions, knowledge work environments and innovation areas. Along with her research work, she has both consulted and designed learning space retrofits. Prior to joining academia, she worked as a designer in architectural practices for several years.

Katja Maununaho is an architect who combines design and research to create new solutions to complex problems through co-designing with dwellers. This has given her sensitivity towards the mundane needs that create essential meanings to housing environments from the grassroots perspective. She mainly contributes to WP3 and WP4. Her focus is on the relations of spatial, functional, cultural and social factors in urban housing environments and on the questions of inclusive design and dweller-oriented housing design. She was part of the multidisciplinary research project: Dwellers in Agile Cities (2016-2019), funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland.

D.Sc. Anahita Rashidfarokhi works as a postdoc researcher and programme coordinator at WiTLAB (World in Transition) research unit at the department of Architecture, Aalto University. Anahita’s research is focused on the manifestation of resilience and sustainability in the future of the built environment sector. She also works as a PBL mentor in collaborative student projects running in developing countries including Uganda, Kenya and Mexico. Anahita holds a pedagogy minor and teaches topics related to sustainability, resilience and development studies in the context of the built environment. Anahita contributed to RESCUE as a postdoctoral researcher in WP1 (defining and analysing futures crisis), WP2 (social sustainability and wellbeing in the built environment), and WP4 (resilient solutions for working and living environments). She also acted also as the previous coordinator of the RESCUE project.

D.Sc. Vitalija Danivska is a lecturer and researcher in workplace management and experience. Her background is in real estate economics, business, finance and management. Vitalija has special interest in strategic real estate management, changing business models, proptech solutions for facility management with the emphasis on user-centric approach to facilities and real estate management, health and wellbeing of people in buildings. In RESCUE, Vitalija contributed to WP1 and WP2.

Burgert Maree

Burgert Maree is a Master`s student in Futures Studies at Turku University. He is keenly interested in sustainability and education and hopes to bring these two fields together in futures studies. Burgert has an extensive background in education and, amongst other things, was the project coordinator of a transdisciplinary education programme at his previous organisation in South Africa. The Big Ideas Programme aimed to cultivate 21st-century skills within learners, by utilising the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals as a framework. Burgert was employed as a Millennium Project intern at the FFRC in Helsinki. In his spare time, Burgert loves to read and spend time in nature.