#56: Joao Cortesao - Climate-Responsive Urban Design, Adaptation and Research Through Design

Joao is a Portuguese architect and researcher, and an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University, Netherlands. His research focuses on climate-responsive urban design and climate adaptation using a research-through-design approach. His motivation is to create and transfer design knowledge to practitioners and decision-makers, in order to prompt the adaptation of urban areas to climate change. We talk about his research on designing cooling urban environments with water and vegetation, runn...