Sara Jacobs is a critical landscape designer, historian and educator. Through writing and drawing, Jacobs thinks about how practices of care and socioecological relations become legible through landscape to work toward just land futures. Jacobs’s work considers how attending to the conditions that produce the need for care within historical spatial processes of racialization and settler-colonialism allows for challenging dominant environmental knowledge within contested landscapes. Jacobs is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture (SALA) at the University of British Columbia.

Desirée Valadares is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. She is trained as a landscape architect (Guelph; Edinburgh) and an architectural historian (Berkeley). Valadares writes about land, territoriality and empire in Canada and the non-contiguous US. Her current book project focuses on the aftermath of Asian migration (wartime forced relocation) and Indigenous intersections in the Pacific through the lens of landscape preservation. Her second project studies infrastructural and labour histories of the Canada-Alaska border in wartime and the postwar era.

Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, Jane Wolff works on the premise that different people see and experience the same landscape in various ways, and her research goal is to unite these diverse perceptions into a universally comprehensible language. By generating a unique vocabulary for each landscape, she discovers and tells meaningful stories about a site’s past and present circumstances and to address its future. Wolff is the 2022 recipient of the Margolese Design for Living Prize.