“Creating urban spaces that allow for the free flow and penetration of water, wind, and people is essential. Returning to our natural waterscape is not an option; it is the only way to survive.”
On March 7 at 6pm, global climate leader and landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom, International ASLA, will give a lecture — Global and Local Climate Adaptation Design — at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
Voraakhom was raised in Bangkok, one of the densest, climate vulnerable cities. She is the founder and CEO of landscape architecture firm Landprocess and the Porous City Network.
Voraakhom has analyzed Bangkok’s historic resilience and adaptive ways of living with water, including Indigenous processes. She argues that these Indigenous processes are crucial to creating the waterscape urbanism needed for Bangkok’s future on the Chao Phraya delta.
She will be joined by Glenn LaRue Smith, FASLA, in a conversation about climate and environmental justice. Smith is founder of PUSH Studio and the Black Landscape Architects Network.
This program at the National Building Museum is presented in partnership with the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).