Jason Hilgefort studied at the University of British Columbia and the University of Cincinnati. He has worked with Peter Calthorpe, Rahul Mehrotra, Maxwan, and ZUS. He lead Maxwan’s competition victories in Helsinki, Basel, Kiev, Brussels, Ostrava, Hannover, and Lithuania before winning Europan 11 in Vienna. He subsequently founded Land+Civilization Compositions, a Rotterdam|Hong Kong based studio. Jason academic experience includes Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Italy, China and Netherlands. He was a subcurator in the Shenzhen|Hong Kong Urbanism|Architecture Biennale and co-director of its learning platform. Currently, he is the International Director of FUTURE+Aformal Academy. He is a writer and contributor to SITE Magazine.