Toby Smith is an award-winning contemporary reportage photographer specialising in landscape, environment and energy. Since graduating with an MA Photography from LCC his time is divided between personal, editorial and contemporary works for exhibition.

China Seas 2014 and Madagascar 2013 Expeditions


Sha is endlessly fascinated by maps, cities, data, and design. Sha studied architecture at UC Berkeley, and worked at IwamotoScott in San Francisco and MESH Architectures in New York before falling for visualization and mapping at Stamen Design. At Stamen, Sha worked for clients like MTV, CNN, Flickr, and Adobe. After Stamen, Sha cofounded Movity, which was acquired by real estate company Trulia. Sha has developed Meshu (http://meshu.io) and other secret projects - Sha is one of the technologists brought on by federal contractors to try to repair healthcare.gov, the federal portal for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known better as Obamacare). Sha speaks frequently at events including the Eyeo Festival, Visualized, and the White House Datapalooza, and currently advises data-driven startups and mentors aspiring digital designers.

China Seas 2014 Expedition



Tim Maughan is a British writer using both fiction and non fiction to explore issues around cities, art, class, and technology. His debut short story collection Paintwork received critical acclaim when released in 2011, and his short story Limited Edition was shortlisted for the 2012 BSFA short fiction award. He sometimes makes films, too.

China Seas 2014 Expedition


Dan is a freelance creative technologist and developer building web apps, mobile apps and physical computing things.

China Seas 2014 Expedition


Chris was born in Hong Kong in 1981 and now lives in London. He currently works as the director of photography at Flowers Gallery whilst simultaneously developing his own artistic practice.

Madagascar 2013 Expedition


Cher is a design and fashion forecaster, a Research Fellow at the V&A museum on Design Futures and has a regular column in 032C magazine on science fiction aesthetics.

Madagascar 2013 Expedition


Memo Akten is an artist, engineer and computer scientist born in Istanbul (TR), currently based in London (UK). He develops systems that abstract behaviour to create unfamiliar familiarities and encourage new perceptions on our relationship to science, nature, technology and culture. Inspired by the processes that shape our lives, he uses the tools of science as a lens to the world. Through visual, sonic and behavioural metaphors he creates artefacts that reveal, amplify and abstract the unseen harmonies, tensions and poetry found within these phenomena. His work plays at the boundaries between abstract and figurative, and spans multiple disciplines including images, videos, sound, light, digital sculptures, dance, large scale installations, performances, software and online works.

Madagascar 2013 Expedition


Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, is the art director of Tank magazine; a quarterly UK magazine, launched in 1998, covering contemporary culture, such as art, architecture, fashion, current affairs, and music.

Madagascar 2013 Expedition


Christina Seely’s work stretches into the fields of science, design and architecture. Interested in humans’ contemporary relationship to nature and time, Professor Seely’s expedition based work finds its home in the conversation between the photographic image and our contemporary relationship with the natural world.

Alaska 2011 and USA 2012 Expeditions


Stuart Candy is a professional futurist with a design twist. He is currently regional foresight and innovation leader for the global design and engineering firm Arup, and research fellow of the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. Stuart received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa for work on experiential scenarios, an approach to immersive storytelling at the intersection of futures, transmedia design, and politics.

USA 2012 Expedition


Mark Pilkington is a writer, publisher, curator and musician with particular interest in the fringes of knowledge, culture and belief. He is author of Mirage Men and Far Out!, founder of Strange Attractor Press and inveterate synth wibbler

USA 2012 Expedition


Factory Fifteen are based in London and led by directors Jonathan Gales, Paul Nicholls and Kibwe Tavares. Their backgrounds range from architecture, 3d visualisation, engineering, animation and photography. They translate this to a multi-disciplinary and distinctive approach to film making. Their creative shorts and artwork have been exhibited around the world in various film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Onedotzero, Ars Electronica, Alpha-ville, The Creators Project, Frieze Art Fair, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Royal Academy, Africa International Film Festival and London Short Film Festival.

USA 2012 Expedition


Growing up in the shadows of both N.A.S.A. and Disney in coastal Florida, Kristian knew he was either going to be an astronaut, or draw for a living. He studied at Savannah College of Art and Design, and has worked for many major publishers in the comic book industry as well as clients in apparel, film, and advertising.

USA 2012 Expedition


Neasden Control Centre is a design studio based in London. It is known for it's intuitive, process-led work across disciplines and sectors. Special thanks to Steve Smith at NCC for the graphics for this website.

Chernobyl/ Baikonur 2011 Expedition