OCEANIX: The World’s First Prototype of a Smart Floating City
Water is life — and throughout history, human settlements have always gravitated towards living near bodies of water. An estimated half of the world’s population live within 100 kilometers of a coast, which is a population density of around twice the global average. Likewise, 14 ouf of 17 largest cities are located on coasts, with 11 in […]
Urban Flooding: How Danish Cities Stay Above the Water
As the world grapples with the intensifying effects of climate change, coastal cities are increasingly facing the threat of urban flooding. Rising sea levels, exacerbated by extreme weather events, are putting pressure on the existing infrastructure. According to the World Bank, an estimated 1.81 billion people, nearly a quarter of the world population, are directly exposed […]
How Indigenous Wisdom Can Inform Modern Architecture
The greatest injustice of climate change is the fact that those who are most vulnerable to it are the people who contributed the least — such as the indigenous communities around the world. On the other hand, these communities also have the wisdom, experience, and the technologies to construct buildings in a way to minimize the notoriously high environmental impact of […]
