• #30 - Tobias Baur: From tropical Singapore to Europe - the "ABC Waters" of sponge cities and climate adaptive design

  • Jun 3 2024
  • Length: 53 mins
  • Podcast

#30 - Tobias Baur: From tropical Singapore to Europe - the "ABC Waters" of sponge cities and climate adaptive design

  • Summary

  • Tobias Baur, Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST), Rapperswil and former partner at Studio Ramboll-Dreiseitl, sheds some light on Singapore's Active, Beautiful and Clean Waters Program, the country's journey in water management, and how sponge cities have evolved from stormwater to climate adaptation in recent years in Asia and Europe. We discuss the important role that interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral collaboration played in ensuring a successful renaturalisation of an urban stream in the flagship Bishan Ang Mo Kio Park project and the challenges going forward.

    Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Starsky by Alex Keren (Check out more of his tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vZ3lENfDLjkln8scBJ8mW)

    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    1:59 Guest Intro and Reflections on Singapore
    5:04 Early inspiration for water in landscape design
    9:00 Singapore's early water management leadership
    12:15 The ABC Waters Programme
    15:46 The Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park Project
    27:20 Tobias' other projects around Singapore
    31:58 Back in Europe and comparisons with the tropics
    36:14 Sponge Cities in Switzerland
    40:06 The role of the landscape architect and designer
    42:34 Q&A Start
    42:54 What inspires you?
    44:10 Key event, person, book
    44:40 If you had a magic wand?
    46:16 Biggest challenge in career to date
    48:20 Time management
    50:00 Advice for young researchers
    51:05 Where can people reach you?
    51:36 Final Message
    52:02 Outro

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