Kotchakorn Voraakhom: How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods
کُچاکورن وُراخوم: چگونه شهرهای درحال غرق شدن را به چشم اندازی برای مبارزه با سیل تبدیل کنیم.
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect who works on building green public space that tackle climate change. Full bio
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across the globe are sinking,
در حال غرق شدن هستند،
of climate change.
را داریم.
of climate change:
the urbanization of Bangkok,
شهرسازی در بانکوک باشید،
and absorb water --
و جذب آب را دارد--
after 30 minutes of rainfall.
از آن این شکلی میشوند.
قایق تبدیل شود.
metropolitan region
on top of a shifting, muddy river delta.
تغییر کننده کار و زندگی میکنند.
more than one centimeter per year,
than the rate of predicted sea level rise.
پیش بینی شده از بالا آمدن سطح دریاست.
از سطح دریا باشیم،
as a landscape architect.
معمار محوطهسازی در اینجا حضور پیدا کردم.
always filled with traffic.
ترافیک داشت بزرگ شدم.
there was a concrete parking lot,
trying to grow through the crack
سعی داشتند از شکاف پیادهروی بتونی
and bigger hole through this crack
از میان این ترک بود
to continue my cracking ambition --
تا به جاه طلبی ترک ایجاد کردنم ادامه دهم--
back to nature.
طبیعت پیوند دوباره دهم.
of the wet and dry season,
عادت داشتیم
when the water fertilized our land.
خاک ما را بارور می کرد.
and the most expensive flood disaster
در تاریخ ما
into an enormous lake.
دریاچهای عظیم نمود.
in the center of the image,
قابل دیدن است،
outlined in yellow.
their home and their belongings,
و اموالشان
with no electricity and clean water.
of fighting flood with concrete,
از طریق بتون،
to the climate uncertainty.
آسیبپذیر کرده است.
as my city continues to sink.
تا شهرم غرق شود.
for Chulalongkorn Centenary Park.
برای پارک سنتناری چولالانگکورن شدیم.
of the first university in Thailand
دانشگاه در تایلند
as a public park to our city.
پارکی عمومی به شهر ما.
to many other cities,
چیز عادی به نظر میسد،
public green space per capita
the first new public park
at the heart of Bangkok --
through countless meetings
ملاقاتهای بیشماری داشتهایم
give up to convincing
متقاعد کردن برنداریم
for beautification or recreation:
قشنگی یا تفریح نیست:
confront climate change.
روبرو شود.
by inclining the whole park
تمام پارک مهار کردیم
the runoff from the highest point
به پایینترین نقطه
that work as one system.
بعنوان یک سیستم کار میکند.
green roof in Thailand,
and museum underneath.
موزه زیر آن.
to water the park for up to a month.
پارک بمدت یکماه استفاده میشود.
لای زمینهای خیس میریزد
then falls through wetlands
that can help filter
collects all of the water.
تمیزی آب کمک کنند.
of the park water system.
آبی پارک میشود.
and room for water,
و هم برای آب،
what we and our cities need.
و شهرهای ما نیاز داریم.
about getting rid of flood.
از شر سیل نیست.
با آن است.
is wasted in this park.
هدر نمیرود.
a million gallons of water.
یک میلیون گالن آب است.
is an opportunity
through this concrete jungle
این جنگل بتونی
as a solution,
بعنوان یک راهحل خلق کنم،
into an urban farm,
به مزرعهای شهری،
at Thammasat University,
green roof on an academic campus yet
در محوطه دانشگاهی
we are involved,
to understand the climate risk
آب و هوایی
as part of the solution.
راهحل هستیم.
will happen again ...
in these sinking cities
شهرهای در حال غرق شدن
that I always keep in mind,
برایتان بگویم،
for "tang" is "to firmly stand,"
when you commit to do something,
وقتی متعهد به انجام کاری میشوید،
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kotchakorn Voraakhom - Urban landscape architectKotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect who works on building green public space that tackle climate change.
Why you should listen
Kotchakorn Voraakhom never thought her childhood pastimes -- like boat paddling with friends in the floodwaters in front of her house -- would later signal a catastrophic disaster: a sinking city. To help save her hometown of Bangkok from rising sea levels and climate change, Voraakhom founded the landscape architecture design firm Landprocess. She is also the founder of Porous City Network, a social enterprise working to solve urban environmental problems and increase urban resilience across Southeast Asia by aiding, engaging and educating climate-vulnerable communities about productive landscape design.
In Bangkok, Voraakhom and her team has turned an invaluable commercial property in the heart of the city into Chulalongkorn Centenary Park, a flood-proof, water-retention public green space. Voraakhom also works as a design consultant for the Bangkok250, a major redevelopment project for the city's 250th anniversary. Voraakhom is an Echoing Green Climate Fellow, Atlantic Fellow and Asia Foundation Development Fellow. She received her master's in landscape architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
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