Anne Loes Nillesen presented a lecture on integrated flood risk management at the Bangkok design week. She presented best practices regarding approaches for integrated flood risk management and urban design.

The School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi is organising a landscape architecture forum titled ‘Future Landscape Architecture’ on the 26th of January. The forum will have discussions and talks on the present and future of landscape architecture in the changing world which requires new type of practitioner. A panel discussion is organised among the key note speakers which will be followed by a design workshop.

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The Future cities Laboratory, a programme of the Singapore- ETH center is organisang a Lunch talk on 15th August. Anne Loes Nillesen will be giving a lecture about ‘Designing flood proof urban regions’. She will show a multi-disciplinary ‘research by design’ approach, in which water serves as a guiding design principle for resilient urban regions. She will show ex­am­ples of the ap­pli­ca­tion of this ap­proach for the Dutch Delta Pro­gramme, the Bangladesh Delta Plan and the Hous­ton Galve­ston bay area. As a re­sult of the dif­fer­ent phys­i­cal, eco­nomic and po­lit­i­cal con­texts, the ap­proach in dif­fer­ent re­gions leads to com­pletely dif­fer­ent de­sign strate­gies.

Singapore University is organising a Symposium on designing with resilience. Defacto’s principal Anne Loes Nillesen will lecture on ‘Designing water inclusive cities and regions’. In the lecture she will show several successful examples of urban flood risk interventions on different scales, varying from amphibious houses to integrated sea barrier designs and resilient coastal cities. She will be showing examples from the Dutch Delta programme and the Bangladesh delta plan and the Water as Leverage for Resilient Cities Asia project (also Bangladesh). With that she will demonstrate how similar design approaches lead to completely different design strategies, because of different contexts.

Anne Loes Nillesen will give a lecture on the theme of Urban Design for Flood Protection on the Urban Flooding & Infrastructure Conference at the Rice University on February 21st.

Delta regions throughout the world, such as Houston, are subject to severe flood-risks. Rapid growth frequently leads to increased vulnerability with respect to coastal and storm water flooding. In her lecture, Anne Loes will present integrated strategies for flood risk management and urban development. She will use examples from the Dutch Delta Programme and Bangladesh Deltaplan to illustrate some of the latest water management and design tools; these tools can be used on different scales, varying from regional and urban development strategies to neighborhood redevelopment and street- and building design level.