EVENTS | CLIMATE CHANGE
HERBERT DREISEITL
Artist, Landscape Architect, Urban Designer for Resilient Water Sensitive Cities. Founder of Atelier Dreiseitl and Director of Ramboll’s Liveable Cities Lab.
Herbert Dreiseitl is an urban designer, landscape architect, water artist, interdisciplinary planner and Professor in Praxis. He is an internationally highly respected expert in creating Liveable Cities around the world with a special hallmark on the inspiring and innovative use of water to solve urban environmental challenges, connecting technology with aesthetics, encouraging people to take care and ownership for places. He has realized ground-breaking contemporary projects in the fields of climate resiliency, stormwater management, urban planning and landscape architecture like Berlin Potsdamer Platz with Renzo Piano, Tanner Springs Park Portland OR USA, or Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park in Singapore. He lectures worldwide and has authored many publications including several editions of Waterscapes, Planning, Building and Designing with Water.
As the Director of the “Liveable Cities Lab”, the new thinktank at the Rambøll Group International (LCL) and as founder of Atelier Dreiseitl now Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl, a globally integrated design firm with more than 35-year history of excellence in urban design, landscape architecture and ecological waterscapes, Herbert integrates the organization´s strategic design and planning efforts by demonstrating a portfolio of site-responsive interventions of community based urban planning and environmental sensitive engineering.
Herbert initiated several movements like the Cloudburst projects in Copenhagen together with the Ramboll team, the ABC Water Guidelines for Singapore and a ground breaking research project with MIT, Harvard GSD, NUS and Zeppelin University, for a successfully implementation of Blue/Green Infrastructure in dense cities worldwide. With this results and designing tools for managing global challenges and environment-related risks, Herbert and his team are currently helping many cities around the world to improve their resiliency and upgrade their frame conditions.
Within the “Ramboll Liveable Cities Lab” Herbert is focusing today on urban and rural projects, as well as research in collaboration with universities. Through a collaborative network, as Harvard GSD Loeb Fellow and Visiting Professor at NUS Singapore, he is exploring the potentials and conditions for Resilient, Smart and Liveable Cities including policymaking and good governance and how to bring best value to the society, create a culture of inspiration, and implement better-integrated urban infrastructure. To better reach out to cities in demand, Herbert opened a new office in Boston in summer 2017.
