Katarina Bajc Author

Prof. Dr. Martin Prominski, born in 1967, studied

landscape architecture at TU Berlin. DAAD scholarship

at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Ph.D. thesis on ‘Complex landscape design’. From

2003–008 he was assistant professor in ‘Theory of

contemporary landscape architecture’, and became

a full professor for ‘Designing urban landscapes’ at

Leibniz University Hanover in 2009.

Professor Antje Stokman, born in 1973, studied

landscape architecture at Leibniz University

Hanover and at Edinburgh College of Art. From

2005–2010 she was assistant professor in ‘Ecosystem

design and watershed management’ at Leibniz

University Hanover and from 2010–017 she was

full professor and director of the Institute of Landscape

Planning and Ecology at Stuttgart University.

Since 2017 she is a full professor in ‘Architecture

and Landscape’ at HafenCity University Hamburg.

Susanne Zeller, born in 1972, studied landscape

architecture at Leibniz University Hanover and

worked for the landscape design practice H+N+S

Landschapsarchitecten in Utrecht, the Netherlands,

where her focus was on designing riparian spaces.

Since 2008, she has been a researcher within the

project ‘Process-oriented design of urban river

spaces’ at Leibniz University Hanover, and other

water-related international research projects. Since

2010 she has been a lecturer at Leibniz University

Hanover, at the department for ‘Designing urban

landscapes’.

Daniel Stimberg, born in 1977, studied landscape

architecture at the TU Berlin. In 2006, he was

one of the founding partners of the practice TH

treibhaus landschaftsarchitektur in Berlin. From

2008–2010 he worked as a researcher within the

project ‘Process-oriented design of urban river

spaces’ at Leibniz University Hanover. Since 2010

he has been working for Hafner/Jimenez Landscape

Architects, Berlin.

Hinnerk Voermanek, born in 1970, is a civil engineer

with a focus on water bodies; he studied at TU

Braunschweig. In 2002, he co-founded the office

aquaplaner – engineering practice for water, environment

and waste water management in Hanover.

From 2008–2010 he worked as a researcher within

the project ‘Process-oriented design of urban river

spaces’ at Leibniz University Hanover.

Katarina Bajc, born in 1983, studied visual arts

education at University of Ljubljana and landscape

architecture in Ljubljana, Leibniz University Hanover

and TU Munich. She worked in art galleries,

landscape architecture and urban planning offices

in Germany, Portugal and Slovenia from 2005–

2015. In 2015 she was a research scholar at Berkeley

College for Environmental Design at University

of California. Since 2016 she has been teaching and

researching at Institute of Landscape Planning and

Ecology at University of Stuttgart.

Nengshi Zheng, born in 1981, studied landscape

architecture at Leibniz University Hanover and was

guest student of EAWAG, ETHZ. From 2008–2018,

he worked for Atelier Dreiseitl, Ramboll and Wasser

Hannover on various international water-related

projects. Since 2019, he has been working as a consultant

and providing blue-green infrastructure consultancy

services to international banking institutes

(e.g. Asian Development Bank), design firms and

engineering companies, with a focus on naturebased

solutions and urban river rehabilitations.

Herbert Dreiseitl, born in 1955, is a sculptor, water artist and landscape architect. After his studies, he set up his office, Atelier Dreiseitl, in Uberlingen on Lake Constance in 1980 (today DREISEITLconsulting

GmbH). He has realised numerous projects

in the fields of stormwater management, water

art and landscape architecture. He is teaching at

international Universities such as NUS Singapore.

He is a Loeb Fellow at Harvard GSD, active in lecturing

worldwide and his work is widely published.

He is the author of the seminal book Waterscapes:

Planning, Building and Designing with Water, first

published by Birkhauser in 2001 and released as

a second and third expanded edition in 2005 and

2009.