The Sea-City Interface Symposium

The Sea-City Interface focuses on the sea-city fringes in rapidly urbanising cities, where coastal regions interplay. The current threat of increasing shocks and stresses induced by climate change and excessive CO2 emissions is well known.

At the same time, demographers show that urban population growth is at its most intense in tropical coastal regions. These regions, as strategic locations, are developed as logistic hubs where ports and often airports are concentrated. This combination of environmental, demographic, and logistical factors places special stress on the zones where urban development meets the sea, the sea-city interface.

The Sea-City Interface Symposium will focus on three areas. Measures to mitigate climate change and reduce its effects through improved regenerative approaches to urban design and planning, environmental science, and building biomimicry technology to capture, absorb, store, and remove of CO2 from the atmosphere. Second, practical and scalable nature-based approaches to how cities might mitigate the effects of rising seas through urban design and biophilic approaches for water-sensitive design. Finally, the economic aspects of the sea-city interface, focusing on how these zones can combine their historical manufacturing roles, with emerging hybrid developments for a creative economy supporting diverse industries and promoting liveability.

The Sea-City Interface International Symposium aims to be a space where the larger community, including students and practitioners in architecture and urban design/planning from around the world, can contribute with their knowledge to address the mitigation of climate change through regenerative design.