New Release: Towards Resilient Water Landscapes [01.10.2010]

Emerged from the International Symposium on Water Landscapes in October 2009 in Sydney, edited by Oliver Parodi, the present book looks "Towards Resilient Water Landscapes". Encapsulated in the approaches taken by the writers are clues into how researchers and designers - who must engage with the complexities of the landscapes, infrastructures and ecologies of cities and their communities - can contribute to growing design knowledge and critical debate in these times of rapid climate, environmental, spatial and cultural change. The realization that a multi-disciplinary approach is essential to gain knowledge and to propose new solutions based upon design thinking underpins this collaboration between academics and designers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Department of Landscape Architecture, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Institute for Water and River Basin Management), Copenhagen University (DK) and Queensland University of Technology (AUS).

Parodi, O. (ed.)
Towards Resilient Water Landscapes - Design Research Approaches from Europe and Australia. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Water Landscapes at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, October 2009. (KIT Scientific Publishing) Karlsruhe: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 2010, 130 pages