Barbara Zibell is Professor of Sociology in Architecture and Women's Studies, Head of the Department of Sociology of Planning and Architecture and President of the Forum for Gender Competence in Architecture Landscape Planning (gender_archland) at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.

Doris Damyanovic is Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Institute of Landscape Planning, Department of Spatial, Landscape and Spatial Science at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria.

Ulrike Sturm is Professor and Head of the Institute of Sociocultural Development at the School of Social Work and Co-Head of the Interdisciplinary Cluster Spatial Development & Social Cohesion at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland.