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Laura Cipriani is an assistant professor in landscape architecture at TU Delft. She has taught for a decade at IUAV, Politecnico di Milano, National University Singapore, Venice International University, and the University of Padua. She holds a Master in Design Studies (Hons) from Harvard Design School (2004), a PhD in Urbanism from IUAV (2008), and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture (Hons) from IUAV (2001). The winner of numerous fellowships from 2009–2012, she was awarded the EU Marie Curie research grant (assistant professor level), and since 2014 she has held the title of Italian associate professor. In 2008, she founded Superlandscape, an urban and landscape design firm. She represents TU Delft at UNISCAPE, and she was involved with ECLAS and IFLA Europe to develop the EU Common Training Framework for Landscape Architecture. Laura was recently awarded the prestigious Comenius Fellowship 2023 for teaching innovation.

Maria Villalobos is an Associate Professor at IIT in Chicago and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. She holds a master’s in Design Studies from Harvard GSD and a PhD in Landscape Architecture from the ENSP-Versailles. In 2017, she made history as the first woman to receive the first prize in the Venezuelan Architecture Biennale. Villalobos is an active member of the Lincoln Yards Advisory Council and the Committee on Design for the Department of City Planning in Chicago, a Board Member of Friends of the Park in Chicago, and a Core Member of Dark Matter University. Her expertise and dedication have been recognized with the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture’s 2022 Excellence in Design Studio Teaching Award.

Lynne C. Manzo is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle (USA). She received her PhD in Environmental Psychology and specializes in people-place relationships, particularly place attachments, place meaning, and socio-spatial justice. She is the coeditor of Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (Routledge, 2021, 2nd edition with Patrick Devine-Wright), and coeditor of Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges (2021, Cambridge University Press). She has published in such journals as the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Urban Studies, and Journal of Planning Literature, among others.

Dr. Daniel R. Williams is a research social scientist with the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. His current research draws on place-based inquiry and practice to inform the adaptive governance of complex social-ecological systems and the adaptive capacities of communities and institutions that make them more resilient in the face of such change. He has published extensively on place-based conservation and adaptive governance of landscape change in the context of wildfire and climate adaptation.

Andrés Di Masso, PhD, is a professor at the University of Barcelona (Spain), where he teaches applied social psychology, political psychology, qualitative methods and epistemology. He is the coordinator of the Interaction and Social Change Research Group (GRICS-UB). His research and publications focus on the micropolitics of place and the ideological construction of people-place relations, across socially sensitive topics such as public space and the right to the city, urban transformations, racism, migration, gender, nationalism and mobilities.

Christopher Raymond is a Professor of Sustainability Science at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include the conceptualization and assessment of senses of place and the multiple values of nature; weaving scientific, local, and Indigenous knowledge for sustainability; nature-based solutions co-benefit assessment; and the governance of sustainability transformations. He is lead editor of the recent book Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges and coordinating lead author of a recent Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (UN) report on the multiple values of nature.

Natalie Gulsrud is an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning. She received her PhD on the governance of urban green space branding. She studies the governance of urban green infrastructure to advance sustainable and just pathways to climate resilience. She has published in Landscape and Urban Planning, Environmental Research, and Urban Forestry and Urban Greening and is the coauthor of the book Street Fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City (Routledge, 2019).

Susannah Abbey is a writer and landscape designer who teaches in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.