Teddy Cruz (MDes Harvard University) is a Professor of Public Culture and Urbanization in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is known internationally for his urban research of the San Diego–Tijuana border, advancing border neighborhoods as sites of cultural production from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing, and public space. Fonna Forman (PhD University of Chicago) is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, San Diego and Founding Director of the UCSD Center on Global Justice. Her work focuses on climate justice, borders and migration, and participatory urbanization. She serves as Co-Chair of the University of California’s Global Climate Leadership Council. Together they lead the UCSD Community Stations, a research-based urban and architectural design practice at UC San Diego, investigating borders and migration, informal urbanization, emergency housing, bioregional climate resilience, civic infrastructure and public culture. Cruz and Forman lead a variety of urban and environmental research agendas in the San Diego–Tijuana border region and beyond. Their work has been exhibited widely in prestigious cultural venues across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; a solo show at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; M+ Hong Kong, and representing the United States in the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale. They have two new monographs: Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks (MIT Press 2022) and Socializing Architecture: Top-Down / Bottom-Up (MIT Press 2023) and one forthcoming: Unwalling Citizenship (Verso).