Gary Bates from the architect office Space Group in Oslo. Bates is educated in USA and has worked with internationally profiled architects as Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. 

 

Mark Francis is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis. Trained in landscape architecture and urban design at Berkeley, MIT and Harvard, his work is concerned with the theory and design of urban places.

Einar Lillebye PhD is a principal architect at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and a lecturer at NTNU and UMB (Norwegian University of Life Sciences). His research concerns street planning in general and the functional and architectural significance of the street as a social arena in particular.  

Professor LeRoy Olaf Tonning has completed studies in civil engineering, has a degree in architecture from NTNU and a PhD from Aalborg University.

Gitte Marling PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Design at Aalborg University and associated researcher at the Center for Public Space Research at the Royal Academy of architecture, Copenhagen.

Professor Tomas Wikström is a researcher and a teacher at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University, and a member of the Research Group for Urban Studies. His recent research concerns public space as seen in the “traditional” city as well as in the new urban landscape.

Anna M. Hohmann-Vogrin, Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing., Dr. techn. Professor of urban design, specialized in urban history and urban theory, at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Technology in Graz.

Raymond Lorenzo holds a Master's degree in City Planning from Harvard, and was professor of Urban Planning at City University, New York, from 1980 to 1984. He is a founder and currently Scientific Director and President of the ABCittà Cooperative (Milan, Italy). Additionally, he is a member of the scientific committee for the "Child Friendly Cities Initiative", UNICEF.

Catharine Ward Thompson is Research Professor of Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh, and Director of OPENspace research centre. Her work focuses on inclusive access to outdoor environments, environment-behaviour interactions, landscape design for older people, for children and for teenagers, and salutogenic environments.

 Jerker Söderlind has conducted research, holds lectures and arranges courses on the concept of Cultural Infrastructure. Member of AHA- akademin, pilot education arranged by KKstiftelsen (Swedish Foundation för Knowledge and Creativity).

David Shaw is Professor and Head of the Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool. His research interest focus around the role of spatial planning as a co-ordinating and integrating concept in both rural and urban environments.

Michael Rios, Ph.D. provides a cross-disciplinary perspective among the spatial fields of architecture, geography, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Professor Rios' research interests centre on the assessment of public policy, professional practice, and citizen participation in the planning and design of the built environment.