Placemaking

David Stea is Professor Emeritus of Geography and International Studies at Texas State University and Research Associate with the Center for Global Justice in Mexico. As Carnegie Interdisciplinary Fellow at Brown University from 1964 to 1966, he developed the new field of Environmental Psychology and the related study of spatial and geographic cognition. David is a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals, the co-author or co-editor of several books and author of some 150 articles and book chapters on various subjects, including sustainable development and environmental issues in Latin America. In 1987 he was nominated for the Right Livelihood Prize (also known as the "alternative Nobel") for his international work with indigenous peoples.

Mete Turan taught structural and architectural design for more than fifty years in Architecture Schools at different universities, among them Middle East Technical University in Turkey, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, University of New Mexico, University of Michigan in the US, and has now retired from Roger Williams University. His current interests are in philosophy and architectonics.