Principal director of Michel Desvigne Landscape Architects. He initially graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Lyon and then from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Landscape Architecture in Versailles. Throughout his career and on current projects, Michel Desvigne collaborates with the world's leading architects, such as Paul Andreu, Sir Norman Foster, Herzog and de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas Renzo Piano, I. M. Pei, Christian de Portzamparc, Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Bernard Tschumi... Michel Desvigne teaches and researches at the ENSP in Versailles, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Geneva Institute of Architecture and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 2000, Michel Desvigne received the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture and in 2003 he was nominated for the Grand Prix d'Urbanisme.

Claire Martin is a landscape architect and associate director of the Melbourne studio of OCULUS Landscape Architecture + Urban Design, where she has led the successful delivery of a range of education, health, cultural, infrastructure and public landscape projects. She is a member of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect’s Victorian Design Review Panel and a contributing editor of Landscape Architecture Australia. Claire is a regular guest lecturer at the schools of architecture and design at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University where she has taught, is an invited critic, and is a member of the Landscape Architecture program advisory committee. Claire was a co-creative director of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture’s Festival of Landscape Architecture: This Public Life, which brought together thinkers and practitioners from the arts and sciences.