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Landscape Architect and Researcher, St. Louis, MO

Ylan Vo is a designer and researcher focused on strategies that integrate social and economic development with sustainable natural systems management. Her recent investigations concern the role of natural systems and environmental discourse in post-conflict and militarised landscapes. This research spans a range of sites impacted by Agent Orange from the Vietnam War, as well as more broadly the global spatial practices of U.S. security and militarisation including tactical environmental modification, preservation, and territorial expansion. Ylan earned her Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. She also holds a BA in History of Art and Architecture from Brown University, where she served on the planning committee of the international conference Better World by Design. Ylan has previously worked in design-thinking education and outreach at Washington University, St. Louis Artworks, and The Nature Conservancy. She currently works as a landscape and urban designer at Forum Studio in St. Louis.

Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Louisiana

William Ma is the assistant professor of Asian Art History in the College of Art and Design at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He received his BA and PhD in the history of art from the University of California at Berkeley. He specialises in the artistic exchange between China and Europe through the lens of Jesuit missions. His research interest includes material culture, workshop practices, aesthetic pedagogy, Jesuit missionary art in late imperial China, and the relationship between export art and the imperial court during the High Qing. In addition to LSU, he has taught courses in Asian art history, urbanism and the arts, Buddhist art, at the University of San Francisco, Lewis and Clark College, and his alma mater. A former Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Peabody Essex Museum, Ma has worked at the Las Vegas Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum.

Field Director (Hue), Site and Space Assistant Professor, History, University of Toulouse, France

Caroline Herbelin holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Sorbonne University, Paris. She has been teaching at the University of Toulouse as an Assistant professor since 2011. Her book Architectures du Vietnam Colonial was published in France by INHA/CTHS in 2016. In it, she examines the diversity of cultural exchanges embodied in the built environment thereby moving beyond analyses equating architecture with colonial power. She especially focuses on the way the Vietnamese appropriated and created the build environment during the colonial period. She is currently working on a social history of art in colonial Vietnam, focusing on the history of private collections, exhibitions, and art institutions as well as exploring the way arts and handicrafts were used and framed in colonial policies. She has co-edited a collection of essays on Vietnamese art and a catalogue about French Indochina for an exhibition held in 2013 at the Musée de l’armée in Paris. She has published several articles and book chapters on art and architecture in Vietnam and colonial culture.

Curator and Artistic Director, Six Space, Hanoi

Đỗ Tường Linh pursued her BA in Art History and Art Criticism at Vietnam University of Fine Art and her MA in Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa at SOAS in London. Her research and curatorial practice ranges from art and politics, conceptualism and post-colonial studies. She has engaged in the art scene in Vietnam since 2005 and worked and collaborated with important galleries, art spaces, institutions and projects such as Art Vietnam gallery, Dong Son Today Art Foundation, Nha San studio, Hanoi Doclab and the Goethe Institute. Linh is currently the artistic director and co-founder of Sixspace (sixspace.vn), an independent platform for art, education and community projects in Hanoi and a member of SEA currents, a network/ platform for Southeast Asian Art in London

https://seacurrents.org/

Architect and Researcher, Ho Chi Minh City

Phi Nguyen is a practicing architect and urban researcher specializing in the intersections of urbanization, migration, top-down heritagization, and local placemaking in postcolonial cities. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University. Phi recently completed her Ph.D. in Urbanism at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. With an interdisciplinary background, Phi holds a Master’s in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Studio Arts (valedictorian, summa cum laude) from Berea College, U.S. She co-founded and co-leads atelier NgNg, an architectural firm with completed projects in Vietnam and the United States.