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Dean of the ETSAB (Architecture University of Barcelona). Since 1983, Jordi Ros is Architect professor in ETSAB, center that has served as deputy director. He has also been head of the Section of Barcelona, Department of Architectural Design (1996-1999), visiting professor at North East London Polytechnic (1991), London, and Professor of International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (1985), with presence in several countries. He has also been a visiting researcher at the London Metropolitan Architecture (2009), also of London, and the Department of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Chicago (2007). Assists in the DPA Magazine, published by the Department of Architectural Design, since 1996.

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Born in his beloved German Alps in 1976, Chris is a creative, multi-disciplinary designer and problem solver. After his studies, Christian and his friends set up a landscape architecture office in Berlin and successfully entered the interdisciplinary German architecture competition scene. At the end of 2006, Chris left for a creative year in Thailand with various independent art & design projects and studies. Fascinated about the Asian culture, he decided to extend his stay in Bangkok. He started to run his own Design Thinking Workshops, participated in the Bangkok Design Festival and since 2008 he has been teaching at the School of Architecture & Design at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi,Thailand.

EMF landscape architecture, Estudi Martí Franch, is an interdisciplinary practice of independent experts in the field of urban and environmental design. EMF is made up of landscape architects, architects, planners, biologist and civil engineers. EMF explores hybrid ways between ecological systems & cultural constructs to inform projects and build up new realities that challenge the established policies. Since 2001 Franch bridges practice with teaching at Barcelona’s School of Architecture Master in Landscape Architecture and other worldwide school. EMF has received numerous prizes among them the 7th European Biennial Landscape Award and an ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) Honour Award.

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Her most recent books include Sunburnt: Australian Practices of Landscape Architecture and Taylor Cullity Lethlean: Making Sense of Landscape. Ware is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. Prof Leon van Schaik and Prof. Ware were recently were awarded an ARC Discovery grant; (DP 110100939) Design practice research: uncovering the role of spatial intelligence in designing the built environment for $150,000 AUD. In 2013/14 she was awarded a $47,000 grant to develop a new Master of Landscape Architecture program across 6 universities in New Zealand and Australia. She is currently a visiting professor and scholar at ETSAB and Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage – Versaiiles (ENSP-V) for 2014.

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Agronomist engineer teaching at the Master of Landscape Architecture DUOT (UPC).

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Desiree Martinez is a Landscape Architect who graduated from the Technical University of Munich. She was president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) from 2010 to 2014. Through her firm PAISAJE RADICAL, projects and research on landscape architecture, urban design and environmental management. She has taught at the master program in Landscape Architecture of the Iberoamerican University in León Guanajuato, Mexico.

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Ricard Pié Ninot received the Ph.D. in Architecture from the School of Architecture of Barcelona (UPC). He is Full Professor of Urbanism and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture of the Vallès (UPC). From 2005 to 2008 he was the first Director of the new School of Architecture of Malaga (EAM). In the year 2003, he was awarded the Catalonian Town Planning Prize, for the Revision of the Master Plan of Torroella de Montgrí. He has led with Josep M. Vilanova the Territorial Sectorial Housing Plan for the Housing Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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Educated as a landscape architect at the University of Wageningen (1978), Michael van Gessel is active in the broader field of landscape architecture and urbanism.Since 1997 he has worked as an independent advisor. Prior to this he was employed for eighteen years at Bureau B+B (urbanism and landscape architecture), the last seven as its director.he mostly specializes in large scale urban planning and landscape architecture projects,which include working on new parks, the renovation of old city parks and estates, designing gardens for buildings, and envisioning schemes for large regional areas.