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Ulrike Wissen Hayek (PhD) has been a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Planning (IRL), Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (PLUS), at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, since 2008. She has been the director of the Large‐scale Virtualization and Modeling Laboratory (LVML) at ETH Zurich since 2023. Her research focuses on developing GIS‐based audiovisual 3D landscape simulations for collaborative planning processes as well as for laboratory experiments, including psychophysiological studies. She utilizes, 3D virtual reality environments, for example, to investigate people’s perceptions of landscapes through physiological and cognitive responses. In her teaching activities, she transfers visualization principles and approaches derived from research into the training program.

Pia Fricker is an associate professor and the vice head of the Department of Architecture at Aalto University, Finland, specializing in computational methodologies in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. Her research merges landscape and urban design with cutting‐edge computational methods, emphasizing critical AI‐driven methodologies and adaptive strategies for environmental challenges. Fricker’s current projects explore immersive, data‐driven design methods for dynamic landscapes, particularly in the Arctic, and the effects of deglaciation and rising sea levels. She holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and collaborates internationally on environmental resilience. Her work has been exhibited globally, and she is active on several editorial boards and scientific committees.

S. Scott Shannon is professor emeritus at SUNY‐ESF.

Frederick Steiner is dean, 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 coedited 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.