Gerda Breuer is a retired professor of the history of art and design at the University of Wuppertal. She previously led the Cromford Industriemuseum in Ratingen as well as the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, and was acting head of the LVR industrial museums group in North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to this, she chaired the scientific advisory board of the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. More recently, she published the volume Design. Texte zur Theorie und Geschichte (2019) with Petra Eisele.

Katja Lis is a communication designer who completed her degree at HfG Offenbach am Main. She is an entrepreneur and the cofounder of the DBF designbüro frankfurt agency. In addition to this, she is a councilor in the Deutscher Designtag, diversity adviser for the DDC Deutsche Designer Club e.V., and also helped launch the Women of DDC platform promoting the visibility, professional networking, and entrepreneurship of female designers.