Meet the Jury for the Unintended Greenery Category

Architect and building engineer, Chairperson for the Norwegian Association for Green Infrastructure, WGIN Board Member and Secretary

David Brasfield is currently the Chairperson of the Norwegian Association for Green Infrastructure and serves as Board Member and Secretary of the World Green Infrastructure Network. He is an architect and building engineer with expertise in urban planning, sustainability strategies, and policy development. His professional interests focus particularly on the application of green infrastructure in hospitals and healthcare facilities.

Professor at Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences

Ph.D. Katarzyna Wróblewska, prof. is an employee of the Department of Horticulture at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. Her specialty is ornamental plants, especially native ones. In addition to plant physiological research, her interests include green infrastructure and the preservation of urban biodiversity. She is a member of the Management Board of the Polish Green Roofs Association and co-author of two "Catalogues of good practices - principles of sustainable rainwater management" published by the City of Wrocław. As a lecturer, she tries to convey an understanding of plants as living organisms that "eat and drink", breathe, "love" and feel fear. She also gains experience in her own garden, which is not only a testing ground, but also an expression of her sympathy: only native plants grow there and it is open to animals.

Professor of Sustainable Communities, University of Virginia

Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz  Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for more than thirty years. Beatley is the author or co-author of more than twenty books, including most recently The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats (published by Island Press, 2020). Beatley directs the Biophilic Cities Project at UVA (http://biophiliccities.org/) and is also co-founder of UVA’s Center for Design and Health, within the School of Architecture.

Architect, working at Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Politecnico di Torino

Juan Esteban Aristizaball is a Colombian architect with a multicultural background and a deep interest in the relationship between cities and nature. Educated in Latin America and Europe, I bring a holistic, context-aware perspective to sustainable urban design. Currently based in Italy, I focus on integrating spontaneous vegetation and resilient ecosystems into architecture to shape inclusive and adaptive environments.

Urban ecologist, Deputy Head of the Green Space Development Research Group at UNR at ZHAW, senior project leader at Nateco AG

Nathalie Baumann is an urban ecologist committed to improve and enhance urban biodiversity. She works at nateco.ch as the senior project leader and as a deputy head of Green Space Development Research Group at Institute of Environment and Natural Resource (UNR) at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), focusing on green space development through teaching, research, and consulting (as well project leader). Nathalie advocates for biodiversity, ecology, inclusion, gender awareness, and eco feminism, striving for a world characterized by peace, equality, and ecological consciousness.