On-Demand / The Cultural Landscape Foundation Soak It Up Partnership: Designing Resilient Cities: The Power of Water in Landscape Architecture Part 2

Kotchakorn Voraakhom, CEO and Founder of Landprocess and Porous City Network, is a Thai landscape architect who works on productive public spaces, tackling climate change in dense urban areas. She created the first critical green infrastructure for Bangkok, Chulalongkorn Centenary Park. Her works also include, Thammasat Urban Farm Rooftop, the largest urban farming green roof in Asia, and the first bridge park across the river in any world capital, Chao Phraya Sky Park. The United Nations named Voraakhom winner of the UN Global Climate Action Awards, Women for Results. She was featured in the 2019 TIME 100 Next, a list from TIME Magazine that spotlights 100 rising stars shaping the world's future, as well as CNN Design, and New York Times. Voraakhom was named BBC100 Women, the Green 30 for 2020 by Bloomberg, and was a keynote opening speaker for 2019 Movin' On Summit. She is now teaching at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Voraakhom is a Chairwoman of the Climate Change Working Group of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA World), TED Fellow, Echoing Green Climate Fellow, Atlantic Fellow, and Futurity Fellow from BMW Foundation in exploring landscape architecture-based solutions to working with the water-based city she calls home. She also was a member of the jury that selected the winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize (2023). 

Herbert Dreiseitl, with the German firm Dreiseitl Consulting, is a landscape architect, urban designer, water artist, interdisciplinary planner, and visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), NUS Cities, and other universities. Dreiseitl is also a Harvard University Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellow and a Fellow of the Centre for Liveable Cities in Singapore. He lectures worldwide and has authored many publications including three editions of Recent Waterscapes, Planning, Building, and Designing with Water. Dreiseitl is an internationally respected expert in creating livable cities around the world with a special focus on the inspiring and innovative use of water to tackle the climate crisis and other urban environmental challenges, connecting technology with aesthetics, and encouraging people to take care and develop a sense of ownership for places. He has realized ground-breaking contemporary projects in the fields of urban design, urban hydrology, water art, stormwater management, planning, and landscape architecture such as Berlin Potsdamer Platz with Renzo Piano, Tanner Springs Park, Portland, OR, McLaren Technology Centre, London, alongside Norman Foster, Queens Botanical Garden, N.Y., and Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park in Singapore.