How do you reconcile increasingly hot dry seasons and torrential rains that make healthy living in our growing cities increasingly difficult? A problem played down 40 years ago, and for which first attempts at a solution were laughed at, has since caught up with reality. In times of exacerbating climate crisis, the issue of water in the city and in the countryside is playing an ever greater role and has arrived in urban areas under the term sponge city. But what are the essential basics, what are the beginnings of this development, and where is the “journey” going? In the upcoming FCL Global Seminar, Herbert, together with his partner Bettina Dreiseitl and his collaborator from Singapore, Raymond Young, will give a hands-on introduction with real water experiments, a basic thought exercise to understand the elastic and regenerative nature of water, which he calls “Fluid Thinking”. With his contribution, Herbert wants to stimulate a debate on the future development of the Blue-Green Infrastructure for less prosperous regions and cities. After all, climate-related developments such as the global water question and security are primarily decided in those locations.
Future Cities Laboratory
Singapore-ETH Centre
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