Unprecedented urbanization is threatening landscape diversity, bringing along new social and environmental problems thus calling for an active and creative landscape shaping process. The ERC-project GLOBESCAPE of Adrienne Grêt-Regamey will generate novel insights into how people add value and meaning to place by using physiological measurements to inform models of socio-ecological systems and linking them to landscape design. The resulting methods and tools will ultimately support humans to intentionally transform peri-urban landscapes.