Sustainable City Workshop:
Urban Flood Resilience
Role
When
Process designer & facilitator,
Project lead
10/2019 - 12/2019
WHY
Bangkok is a city with over 10 million population with high density. Flood is happening every year. A very short-term solution is to raise the building floors and the street level. However, It doesn’t fix the problem in the long-term - but cause even more flood in the future. City is a shared space. Only one house in a village raise the floor, everyone’s else has to do the same to avoid the flood.
To mitigate the city flood risk, everyone must be educated. I and my team at the Sweden Alumni Network Thailand which was mainly supported by the Swedish Institute, the Embassy of Sweden in Thailand see an urge to raise awareness on SDG11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, and especially, how to mitigate flood risk in Bangkok in the longer term.
HOW
The workshop was designed into a collaborative simulation game where everyone will experiment first-hand how their actions lead to the possible effect on the seawater level.
I spent time working with the water experts to design the game to identify the cause and effect of human actions on urban flood in Bangkok as well as flood landscapes, flood risk mitigation and reduction ideas.
Eventually, the content was packed into 2-hour simulation workshop with 20 attendees
