Oswald Devisch is Associate Professor in Urban Design at Hasselt University, Belgium. He is coordinator of the research cluster Spatial Capacity Building and explores themes such as collective learning, casual participation, autonomous urbanization and the gamification of participation.

Liesbeth Huybrechts is Associate Professor at Hasselt University, Belgium. She works in the areas of participatory design, spatial transformation processes and human-computer interaction. She is part of the research projects Traders and Critical Heritage. She designed the participatory mapping tool MAP-it (www.map-it.be) and is co-founder of Social Spaces (www.socialspaces.be).

Roel De Ridder is a researcher and a tutor at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University, Belgium. He is also a lecturer in architectural theory and a tutor at the Faculty of Architecture at KU Leuven (in Brussels and Ghent). He attained a doctoral degree, on The Public Performance of the Parish Church, at Hasselt University (2013). His research focuses on supporting municipalities and church boards in developing and implementing policies and new architectural schemes regarding the future of church buildings. Since 2012, De Ridder has been artistic director of the architecture organisation Architectuurwijzer vzw (Hasselt, Belgium).