The International Geodesign Collaboration

Thomas Fisher, is Director of the Minnesota Design Center, and Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design, He is a graduate of Cornell University in architecture and Case Western Reserve University in intellectual history, was previously the Editorial Director of Progressive Architecture magazine. Recognized in 2005 as the fifth most published writer about architecture in the United States, he has written 9 books, over 50 book chapters or introductions, and over 400 articles in professional journals and major publications. Named a top-25 design educator four times by Design Intelligence, he has lectured at 36 universities and over 150 professional and public meetings. He has written extensively about architectural design, practice, and ethics. His newest book is Designing our Way to a Better World (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

Brian Orland is the Rado Family Foundation/University of Georgia Foundation Professor of Geodesign at the University of Georgia, College of Environment + Design. He holds degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture. His teaching and research focus on environmental perception, the understanding and representation of environmental impacts, and the design of information systems for community-based design and planning. His work includes the use of serious games, visualization and mobile devices for data collection, information dissemination, and citizen engagement in landscape design and planning. Current interests include Georgia coastal residents' intentions to migrate in the face of climate-related change the roles of cultural information in regional planning, and a university global collaboration project, Changing our Global Infrastructure, with Esri and Geodesignhub.

Carl Steinitz is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. In 1967, Professor Steinitz received his PhD degree in City and Regional Planning, with a major in urban design, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also holds the Master of Architecture degree from MIT, and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University. His applied research and teaching focus on highly valued landscapes that are undergoing substantial pressures for change. He is principal author of Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes (Island Press 2003), author of A Framework for Geodesign (Esri Press, 2012), and a founding coordinator of the International Geodesign Collaboration. Professor Steinitz received many honors, including the Outstanding Practitioner Award from the International Society of Landscape Ecology (1996), and the Carpenter Teaching Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects (2015).