Addressing climate change: Effective strategies and project insights
Kotchakorn Voraakhom’s landscape designs continue to inspire cities around the world with their nature-based solutions in urban planning. Join the landscape architect extraordinaire in a public talk in association with her new status as NMBU Honorary Doctor.
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NMBU Kassa Nova Building (foyer), Elizabeth Stephansensvei 22, 1433 Ås
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Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect extraordinaire. She is known across the world for her innovative and sustainable design projects that create green spaces in densely populated cities. She designs spaces that not only serve aesthetic, recreational, and public health purposes, but that also address critical environmental issues – such as flooding in Bangkok.
A Bangkok native, Kotchakorn grew up in a dense urban area where, as she described in a 2018 TED talk, green spaces were nothing more than “these sneaky little plants trying to grow through the crack of the concrete pavement.”
Today, she is CEO of the landscape architecture and urban design firm Landprocess – a company dedicated to helping cities face the challenges of climate change – and Founder/CEO of the Porous City Network, a social enterprise that works with vulnerable communities in Southeast Asia to raise awareness and create solutions to climate challenges.
Landprocess designed Bangkok’s Centenary Park – a groundbreaking urban park that can mitigate the impact of flooding in the city by absorbing and storing excess rainwater. Other projects include Thammasat University’s Urban Rooftop Farm - at 36 acres, the largest urban rooftop farm in Asia.
Kotchakorn has received numerous awards and accolades for her work, including featuring on the ‘TIME100 Next’ list of emerging leaders that shape the future, the BBC100 Women 2020, and Bloomberg’s Green 30. She is a winner of the UN Global Climate Action Awards and has been profiled by CNN and the New York Times, as well as being featured as one of TIME magazine’s 15 women leading the fight against climate change.
She is Chair of the Climate Change Working Group of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, a TED Fellow, an Echoing Green Climate Fellow and an Atlantic Fellow. The list goes on.
Join us in a discussion with Kotchakorn Voraakhom on how she tackles climate change through landscape architecture and urban design.
Free entry, registration required.