CONCEPT
Adaptive Waterscapes focuses on a new paradigm in planning that integrates water and flood risk management in the urban landscape through the design of integrated climate adaptive urban infrastructures, including technically and nature-orientated systems for stormwater management, greening of space and flood resilient buildings. This set of strategies is able to reduce flood risk by managing surface runoff at the source and to increase the flexibility and coping capacity of the building stock. As a consequence, the initiation of an urban renewal and reconfiguration process takes place. The Course will aim at exploring the idea of adaptive waterscapes and the scenarios they offer to the delta city of Porto Alegre, in the southernmost state of Brazil.
