Online + In person. Free.

Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Cambridge, MA with livestream here.

Niall Kirkwood, FASLA, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design invite our landscape architecture community to participate in a lecture by Kotchakorm Voraarkhom, Chairwoman of the Climate Change Working Group of the International Federation of Landscape Architects and CEO and Founder of Landprocess and Porous City Network 

See the event listing on the GSD website

Description

Living in uncertainty, land and its changing process are significant indicators for us to better understand and defend urban ecosystems in times of climate crisis. Returning to our natural waterscape is not an option; it is the only way to survive.

Creating urban spaces that allow for the free flow and penetration of water, wind, and people is essential to the survival of many water-based cities. Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect from Bangkok, one of the densest climate-vulnerable areas in the coming decade. Understanding the city’s historical resilience and adaptive living with water is evident in the indigenous process that is crucial in waterscape urbanism needed for Bangkok’s future on the Chao Phraya delta.

Kotch invites the audience to join her in finding landscape architecture-based solutions to working with the water-based city she calls home.