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Peter Hemmersam is an architect and professor of urban design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Here, he teaches urban history and theory and codirects the Executive Master's in Urbanism programme. His research covers areas such as digital cities, displacement, and placemaking. In recent years, he has focused on the history and practice of Arctic urbanism, planning, and placemaking. In 2019, he co-edited Future North: The Changing Arctic Landscapes (Routledge), and in 2021, he published Making the Arctic City: The History and Future of Circumpolar Urbanism (Bloomsbury Academic). 

Anu Valtonen is a critical feminist scholar at the organization and tourism studies interface. Her recent research interests center around feminist new material theorizations and relational methodologies for studying more-than-human worlds in the era of the Anthropocene. She has developed post-anthropocentric and relational theorizations of care and knowing, with marginalized subjects such as rocks and mosquitoes; integrated multispecies thinking in teaching; and engaged in multispecies storytelling in representing research. She is Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Social Sciences.