The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) and PlayCore proudly announce a free global summit, Soak it Up: Combating Climate Change with Landscape Architecture. The “sponge cities” concept for addressing urban flooding, pioneered by Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu, most recent winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, inspires this global event that will address pressing environmental and social challenges, including biodiversity loss, climate change, and social inequities. Soak It Up features five pre-recorded presentations and a live 90-minute panel discussion and Q&A. Kongjian Yu will be joined by international landscape architecture leaders Herbert Dreiseitl (Germany), Jasper Hugtenburg (Netherlands), Mia Lehrer (United States), and Kotchakorn Voraakhom (Thailand) to explore the critical role of landscape architecture in designing water infrastructure to harmonize people and nature. Registration is now open and the first three videos will go live on March 17, followed by the remaining two videos on April 14. The capstone live webinar will take place on May 7 at 8pm ET.

https://www.tclf.org/soak-it-combating-climate-change-landscape-architecture-live-now