PEOPLE

Advisors

DR. ANTONIETA JIMÉNEZ

Antonieta, Mexican, (Ph.D. in Anthropology, Master degree in Archeology) is a professor and researcher at Colegio de Michoacán, a social sciences research institution in Mexico. She is the author of the book Sharing the Treasure, A methodology for archaeological interpretation (Compartiendo el Tesoro: Metodología para divulgar la arqueología, Colmich, 2017). She is a Member of the National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico (Level I); Full Member of the Association for Heritage Interpretation in the UK and Regular Member in Interpret Europe. She is also founding director of the Mexican Association of Heritage Interpreters.

PETER CASEBOW

Peter, Scottish, is a highly experienced and accomplished leader who built one of the United Kingdom’s largest global online learning businesses, MindTools which serves 2.5 million learners a month and many of the world’s major brands such as Disney, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Bupa, Google and Standard Life Aberdeen. His experience ranges from bootstrapping a start-up through to sale, leading two acquisitions as part of an acquisition strategy and merging three businesses into one cohesive unit. His track record of top and bottom-line growth created by strong clear values, a collaborative team approach to strategy development and focussed go-to-market execution across a range of products, services and geographies. Peter’s passions include his family, rugby, mountaineering, cycling, padel tennis and single cask malt whisky. Currently he’s trying to learn about wildlife photography and studying for a qualification in wildlife identification.

BLAKE BELANGER

Blake Belanger, American, PLA, ASLA is a licensed landscape architect and urban designer with over twenty-five years of combined experience in professional practice and academia. While in professional practice, Professor Belanger’s work centered on urban design, community planning, civic space and parks, and site planning at various scales. He joined Kansas State University in 2007, where he teaches design studios, theory and research seminars, foundational lecture courses, and serves on graduate student advisory committees. He is an engaged scholar specializing in place-inspired brownfield regeneration visioning and has led or co-led service-learning projects with communities in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, and Colorado, resulting in dozens of student awards from ASLA and APA regional chapters. Professor Belanger has been recognized with numerous teaching and research awards, including the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Excellence in Design Studio Teaching Award (2012), the Big 12 Fellowship (2017) the College of Architecture Planning and Design McElwee Teaching Award (2015, 2024), the Mary Jarvis Emerging Faculty of Distinction in Landscape Architecture (2010), the Kansas State University Academic Excellence Award (2011, 2014, 2016), the LARCP Teacher of the Year Award (2024), and the TAB+LARCP Faculty Brownfield Fellowship (2024-2027). Professor Belanger holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University and a dual Master of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Colorado at Denver, where he graduated with honors and was the lead designer of the winning team in the 2005 ULI / Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition.

Blake focuses on community-engaged scholarship, urban resilience through brownfield redevelopment, graphic representation, and the creative design process. In “Situating Eidetic Photomontage in Contemporary Landscape Architecture”, he and his co-author present a framework for understanding the role of – and potential for – photomontage in landscape architectural design process and communication. He teaches Unlocking Creativity, a university-wide elective designed to equip students with methods for generating creative ideas and the confidence to find their inherent genius.

CLARK HANCOCK

Clark, American, is an Interpretive Consultant and Trainer working out of Austin, Texas. He retired from the City of Austin in 2015 after serving for 25 years as the Austin Nature & Science Center’s Exhibit Coordinator. His professional focus is on community networking, open space management, resource protection, and heritage interpretation. His work has included the creation of natural and cultural exhibits, oral history and archive project management, community engagement and institution development, interpretive planning and training, and event planning. He holds degrees in Public Affairs from the University of Texas’ LBJ School and Theatre from Tulane University. His career has been diverse but with the common thread of creating opportunities for individuals to find for themselves new or enhanced connections with the wonders of creation and encouraging them to pass on to future generations this strong foundation from which to navigate the vagaries of life.

CLAudia manzur

Claudia, Argentine, graduated in tourism with a specialization in Protected Area Public Use Planning from the National University of Comahue, Neuquén, Patagonia. She completed a Masters in Public Administration at University of Buenos Aires. In 1996 she began working at the National Parks Administration in Public Use in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche and, currently, works at the National Parks Central Headquarters in Buenos Aires.

CECILIE SMITH-CHRISTENSEN

Cecilie, Norwegian, is an economist turned heritage and tourism professional with more than 20 years international working experience. Since 2008 her work has been contextualised by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention (1972), and she currently serves as an expert advisor to the UNESCO World Heritage Sustainable Tourism Programme. In 2015 Cecilie founded World Heritage Catalysis (https://www.whcatalysis.org) emerging as a commons' oriented community of practice applying new and innovative tools in tourism and visitor management with the aim to enhance the resilience and adaptive capacity of communities living in and around UNESCO World Heritage. Among these tools are VMAST, the Visitor Management Assessment & Strategy Tool for World Heritage, which she developed for UNESCO and now made available through the UNESCO World Heritage Sustainable Tourism Toolkit. Cecilie is also an active member of ICOMOS, Catalyst 2030, IUCN WCPA TAPAS among other relevant networks and efforts. 

DR. ALIA AURAMI

Alia, American, has taught pre-school, college, and adults, done marketing/strategic planning; been a spiritual counselor; designed onboarding programs; written and advised on Integral management. She wrote two forthcoming books, one based on the Integral framework; her main blogs are Exploring Second and Third Tier and Organizational Intelligences. She is co-creator of Enlivening Edge.org, a global nexus for people co-creating more-conscious organizations and is Managing Editor, Inter-organizational Synergy Catalyzer, and Workspace Host among other roles. She has been Head Minister since founding an independent church in 2005; everything she does is a ministry of the church. Alia helped build online international communities since 2006. She also co-designed the Operating Agreement and Management System for a next-stage organization. Alia has served since 2012 in the Core Advisory Team for the international movement Integral City.com.

JAY MCGAFFIGAN

Jay, American, is a software architect working in the medical device and information space. He enjoys technology, cooking and hiking.

DR. DARKO BABIĆ

Darko Babić, Croatian, holds a PhD in Museology/Heritage Studies. He acts as Chair of Museology and Heritage Management at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Croatia), as Vice-Chair (for policy) of ICOMOS-ICIP, Board member/Vice-Chair of ICOM Croatia and the same in ICOM’s IC for the Training of Personnel (ICOM-ICTOP). Darko is a member of editorial boards of “HER & MUS journal” (Ediciones Trea & University of Barcelona, Spain), “Museologica Brunensia” (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) and “Museum - Monument - Heritage” (Sankt - Petersburg State University, Russia). He was appointed co-editor of ICOM’s forthcoming book on Museum Management. Darko has significant experience in implementation of EU-funded (and other) heritage projects and as author of museum and heritage projects.