Anna Paola Quaglia is an independent researcher with a PhD in Urban Studies from the Polytechnic of Turin, with six years' experience at the European Commission's Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy. Her current research and work explores the interplay between grassroots democracy and institutional participation, ethics in research and policy, theatre and arts-based methods.

Ângela Guimarães Pereira works at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. She leads the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy. Post-normal science inspires her research and interests on different ways of knowing about environment and society, speculative "futuring" and citizen participation methods and institutionalisation(s) and embeddedness.