Porous City Network partners with vulnerable communities to raise awareness of climate challenges and create site-specific design solutions. Design guidelines, education, and capacity building ensure increased urban resilience, ability to adapt, and community preparedness for future uncertainty.

 

To start our process, we identify vulnerable sites in Bangkok threatened by the effects of climate change, like water management issues and urban heat island. We partner with communities to begin a permeable public space project. PCN commits to a co-creating design dialogue, where we host neighborhood meetings to identify project program (like a playground, urban farm, or covered market space) that works best for the surrounding community. We use our expertise as landscape architects and environmental designers to ensure that climate challenges are addressed in the design, through permeable surface and use of native plants. PCN designs and oversees construction of the projects, partnered with the community to ensure a transparent process.

 

During the design and construction process, and after a project is implemented, PCN leads workshops to teach maintenance of the new public space - like hands-on lessons about urban farming - to ensure that it is used and loved. We also raise awareness of climate change and urban resilience.

 

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