Designing with water: Building resilient and beautiful cities

Cities, designers, and communities can work together to build water-resilient places that are both innovative and beautiful. This panel will showcase existing solutions and identify how EU policies and NEB values can accelerate their adoption. This means considering how water-sensitive design can not only reduce climate risks, but also enhance biodiversity, public space quality and community well-being, making water a driver of regeneration rather than a constraint.

Speaker: 

• Lenora Moore - International Senior Vice-President Commercial & Solutions for CRH
• Justin Abbott - Arup Fellow,  Europe Water Business Leader at Arup
• Julia Watson - Founder & Co-Director Science & Design, Lo—TEK Office for Intercultural Urbanism
• Karin Aschberger - Senior Scientist, Joint Research Centre – Ocean and Water Unit

Moderator: 

• Giulio Boccaletti - Scientific Director, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

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