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Hasibe Şimal Keskin is an architect, urban designer and researcher in urban studies and spatial analysis. She is pursuing a PhD in Critical Cartography and Spatial Analysis in the Division of Architecture and Urban Design. She holds a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Politecnico di Milano, where her thesis explored the integration of circular agriculture, community collaboration, and green, grey, and blue infrastructure strategies in peri-urban industrial contexts. As an intern in the UN-Habitat Planning, Finance and Economy section, she contributed to the assessment of the Nampula, Mozambique, Strategic Plan and to the development of the urban design guideline "My Neighbourhood Framework – Coastal and Delta Cities Edition." She also contributed to research activities on urban transformation and sustainable development in EU-funded projects, providing mapping and spatial analysis support through her affiliation with Politecnico di Milano. Her current work explores the role of critical cartography in advancing spatial justice, resilience, and sustainable territorial development.

Ann-Kristin Kaplan Wikström resumed her doctoral studies in Urban Planning in the spring of 2025. She was accepted as an industrial doctoral student in 2014 with the project Arkitektur och regler(Architecture and Regulations) and have had a long time-out for private reasons. Part of the original project was realized in 2024 when she published the report Arkitektur och lagstiftning – historik och samband under 700 år. She has fourteen years of practical experience of planning and building regulations from three municipalities. For six years, she worked at the Government Offices, including a position as one of the secretaries of the Building Permit Inquiry and co-author of Ett nytt regelverk för bygglov (A New Regulatory Framework for Building Permits). She now combines her doctoral studies with part-time work at the Association of Architects Sweden.