Martin Prominski is a full professor and chair of Designing Urban Landscapes at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. He has a PhD from TU Berlin (2003) and is a registered landscape architect. His current research focuses on design research strategies, enhancing urban landscapes and integrative concepts for nature and culture. He is a member of the Studio Urbane Landschaften, an interdisciplinary platform for research, practice and teaching on urban landscapes, and the co-founder of the Sino-German Cooperation Group on Urbanization and Locality Research. Hille von Seggern is a landscape designer, artist, registered architect and urban designer. She works and advises on 'crossing-fields-projects' in Hille von Seggern & Timm Ohrt AlltagForschungKunst and Studio Urbane Landschaften cooperation projects. From 1995 to 2008 she held a full professorship at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, and in 2005 founded, together with Julia Werner, the Studio Urbane Landschaften as a think tank for research, practice and teaching.