Bruno Latour Professor Latour is professor and vice-president for research at Science Po Paris, associated with the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO).

Until 2006 he was professor at the Centre de l’Innovation at the Ecole National Superiéure des Mines in Paris, and visiting professor at USCD, at the London School of Economics, and in the history of science department at Harvard University.

Trained as a philosopher and an anthropologist, professor Latour has an international reputation working in philosophy, history, sociology and the anthropology of science. He is an eminent and respected academic who, along with others such as Michel Callon and professor John Law, has played a major role in developing Actor Network Theory, which has inspired the conference Networks of Design. His publications include, Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (1986), Science in Action. How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society (1987), The Pasturisation of France (1988), We Have Never Been Modern (1993), Pandora's Hope. Essays in the Reality of Science Studies (1999), Aramis or the Love of Technology (1996), (edited with Peter Weibel) Iconoclash: Beyond the Image-Wars in Science, Religion and Art (2002), Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy (2005), (edited with Peter Weibel) Making Things Public – Atmospheres of Democracy (2005), and Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor Network Theory (2005) To find out more about professor Latour and his work please visit his web site: www.bruno-latour.fr where you will also find the interactive photographic essay Paris Invisible City.

		Jeremy Myerson Jeremy Myerson has been a journalist, researcher, academic and activist in the British design community for the past 25 years. He developed his interest in design as a journalist and editor on titles including Design,
Creative Review and World Architecture. In 1986 he was founding editor of Design Week and in 1999 he joined the Royal College of Art to set up the RCA's Helen Hamlyn Centre with Roger Coleman. Today he is Director of the centre and Professor of Design Studies at the RCA where he also leads the Innovation RCA network for business. He is the author of many books including the 21st Century Office,  IDEO: Masters of Innovation, New Public Architecture and Gordon Russell: Designer of Furniture. He has curated many national exhibitions, including Doing A Dyson at the Design Museum and Rewind: Forty Years of Design and Advertising at the V&A. Myerson holds degrees from Hull University and the RCA.
		Jan Konings Jan Konings is a designer. He is best known for his work with Jurgen Bey for Droog Design, of which he is ‘founding designer’. Konings is editor of the magazine Morf. His work challenges the boundaries between art, architecture and design and typically has a strong social agenda.