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Phillip Fernberg is a landscape designer, PhD candidate, and researcher in Utah State University’s Visualization, Instrumentation and Virtual Interaction Design (VIVID) Laboratory. He has earned an MLA from Louisiana State University and a BA in Latin American Studies from Brigham Young University. Fernberg’s current research focuses on spatial cognition in complex virtual environments and the implications of artificial intelligence for landscape architecture practice. He has published articles in several international journals and magazines and is a current recipient of the LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership.

Brent Chamberlain, PhD, is an associate professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning at Utah State University. His expertise as a computational environmental planner is built on three foci: 1) visualization and spatial data science, 2) applied computational approaches (including optimization and artificial intelligence), and 3) environmental perception and affect related to built and natural environments. His work has been published in several international journals, and his research has been funded by several national and state agencies, including the NSF, DoD, NIDILRR, UT DOT, and UT Public Lands. More can be found at:

Mary G. Padua is a licensed landscape architect with experience in the public and private sectors, including managing her practice, MGP Studio art design research. Her practice and research activities focus on human-centered outdoor restorative environments and the cultivation of place. Simultaneously a design educator and professor at Clemson University, where she served four years as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Padua is an internationally recognized changemaker. She is an award-winning writer and visual artist with original photographs held in public and private collections. Her publications span China’s hyperurbanization, novel American landscapes, and interrogating the meaning of place.

Frederick Steiner is dean and Paley Professor, and co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. He has written, edited, or co-edited 21 books, including Design with Nature Now and Megaregions and America’s Future (both from Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, distributed by Columbia University Press). He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Janusz Lach is a PhD lecturer at the University of Wrocław, Faculty of Earth Science and Environmental Management Department of Regional Geography and Tourism. Educated as a geomorphologist and geographer of physical geography, he specializes in regional geography, cultural geography, tourist geography, and landscape studies. His address is: University of Wrocław, street Z. Cybulskiego 32, room 156, 50-205 Wrocław. His e-mail is:

Ihor Boyko is a PhD researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in the Department of Social Anthropology. He is educated as an ethnographer and specializes in the ethnography of the Eastern and Western Carpathians, with a focus on the following ethnic groups: the Hutsuls, Boykos, Lemkos, and Slovak and Polish highlanders originating from the Wallachian culture. His address is The National Academy, Svobody Avenue 15, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine. His e-mail is: