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Desirae D. Wood is a landscape architect inspired by Japanese gardens and trained in Japanese garden principles and practices as well as in ecology‐based principles and practices. Wood believes you can never build a garden better than yourself. With twenty years of experience, she currently serves as the Founding Principal of the award‐winning firm Dobro Design and was the former Garden Asset Manager for the Portland Japanese Garden. In these roles she has led garden renovation, design, construction, maintenance, asset management, research, and education while guided by a strong purpose—to connect people to nature through the beauty of awe‐inspiring gardens.

Rob Kuper is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Temple University. His past research interests generally involved landscape perceptions, specifically about time, landscape preference, and the Attention Restoration Theory. His current research focuses on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions as they relate to landscape architecture teaching and practice.

Carey Clouse is professor of architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research addresses the intersection of climate change adaptation, human‐environment systems, and accessible design thinking. She is the recipient of a 2024–2025 Fulbright Iceland—National Science Foundation Arctic Research Grant.