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#56: Joao Cortesao - Climate-Responsive Urban Design, Adaptation and Research Through Design
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Joao is a Portuguese architect and researcher, and an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University, Netherlands. His research focuses on climate-responsive urban design and climate adaptation using a research-through-design approach. His motivation is to create and transfer design knowledge to practitioners and decision-makers, in order to prompt the adaptation of urban areas to climate change.
We talk about his research on designing cooling urban environments with water and vegetation, running design workshops with architects in Egypt to spark locally-specific climate adaptation measures and bridging the gap between research and practice.
This episode is full of practical and actionable advice!
Check out the companion blog post to this episode to see visuals of the projects we discuss!
Learn more about Joao here.
See Joao's research publications here.
Thanks for listening!
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Manage episode 345073264 series 2904422
Joao is a Portuguese architect and researcher, and an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University, Netherlands. His research focuses on climate-responsive urban design and climate adaptation using a research-through-design approach. His motivation is to create and transfer design knowledge to practitioners and decision-makers, in order to prompt the adaptation of urban areas to climate change.
We talk about his research on designing cooling urban environments with water and vegetation, running design workshops with architects in Egypt to spark locally-specific climate adaptation measures and bridging the gap between research and practice.
This episode is full of practical and actionable advice!
Check out the companion blog post to this episode to see visuals of the projects we discuss!
Learn more about Joao here.
See Joao's research publications here.
Thanks for listening!
Join the Green Urbanist Weekly newsletter: Substack
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