Urs Kumberger studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and the UdK Berlin. He worked in different architectural offices, i.a. at Interboro in New York, SMAQ and Raumlabor in Berlin. In parallel to his work at Teleinternetcafe, he worked as a research assistant at the chair for regional building and settlement planning at Leibniz Universität Hannover (2012-14) and at the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism at TU Braunschweig (2015-16).