Graham Young is a landscape architect with interests also in urban design, and environmental planning. He holds degrees in landscape architecture from the University of Toronto (BL) and the University of Pretoria (ML). He has written widely and presented on landscape architectural issues and has had award-winning projects published both locally and internationally. Graham recently retired from a 30-year academic career at the University of Pretoria where his focus was on design and urban ecology. In 2011 he was invited to the University of Rhode Island, USA as their Distinguished International Scholar. Graham runs his own practice, and is the Secretary General of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Africa, a Fellow of Institute of Landscape Architects in South Africa (ILASA) and a professionally registered member of the South African Council for the Landscape Architectural Profession (SACLAP).

Anthony Wain is a Director of Planning Partners, Cape Town, South Africa. A Horticultural Scientist and Professional Landscape Architect, he trained in the U.K. and has 36 years’ experience in 21 countries worldwide. Anthony is a Senior Landscape Consultant to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (Historic Cities Programme) and was the first Mellon Resident Practitioner in 2015 at Dumbarton Oaks and continues his studies at the University of Cape Town. His work encompasses World Heritage Sites, city parks, mixed development projects and environmental conservation. He has published and presented many anecdotal papers on his projects and spoken widely at conferences, or to any willing listener on aeroplanes!

Lesego Bantsheng is the co-founder of Uhuru Heritage, an NPO geared at moulding current and future societies. She was one of the top 10 House and Leisure Next Generation Creators of 2019 after receiving the Corrobrik Most Innovative award for her thesis titled Pula a Ene: Occupying Land In Restituted Barolong Homelands. In the short amount of time Lesego has been involved in the industry, her contribution has been to broaden the scope of Landscape Architecture in South Africa. Her work constantly interrogates the conventional public outdoor space and cultural appropriateness. Although she has worked on numerous projects in the private sector, she chooses to broaden the scope of the field through policy changes in Public Service and Non-Profit projects. Lesego holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pretoria. Lesego is generally a creative who constantly contributes to the collective memory of the South African Experience.

Tarna Klitzner is the principal of Tarna Klitzner Landscape Architects (TKLA), which was established in 1995. TKLA’s scope of works includes both public, community and private projects. The office ethos is rooted in providing environments that are conceptualized within an understanding of the given natural/urban and social environments and endeavour to provide spaces for human interaction that encourage positive engagement within communities and with the broader context of our cities, towns and natural landscapes. Tarna’s interest is the enquiry into the provision of equitable social and environmental interventions at various scales and within contrasting paradigms. Tarna lectures at the University of Cape Town where she has been engaged as a part time lecturer in the Planning, Landscape Architecture and Architecture Departments, since 1992. Tarna has presented the projects which will underpin this presentation at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Washington, New South Wales, and Cape Town. Tarna graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia in a Master of Landscape Architecture in 1991 and with an BA Architecture Degree from the University of Cape Town in 1985.