Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Landscape Architect | Designing Urban Resilience
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Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect committed to building climate-resilient cities. As the founder of Landprocess, she has led award-winning projects that transform urban landscapes into sponges to mitigate flooding.
Voraakhom's innovative work has been featured at the Venice Biennale and United Nations Climate Change Conference. With a Master's in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University, she shares her expertise to help communities prepare for the impacts of climate change.
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How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods
From London to Tokyo, climate change is causing cities to sink -- and our modern concrete infrastructure is making us even more vulnerable to severe flooding, says landscape architect and TED Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom. But what if we could design cities to help fight floods? In this inspiring talk, Voraakhom shows how she developed a massive park in Bangkok that can hold a million gallons of rainwater, calling for more climate change solutions that connect cities back to nature.
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