The lecture will explore how landscape design can actively shape microclimates, enhancing outdoor comfort for humans, animals, and plant life by working with natural processes rather than against them.
Bas Smets
Bas Smets (b. 1975, Belgium) is a landscape architect whose multidisciplinary background has shaped a distinctive approach to creating innovative and sustainable urban environments. He founded his Brussels-based practice in 2007, which has since realised over 50 international projects, including LUMA Parc des Ateliers in Arles, Thurn & Taxis Park in Brussels, the Sunken Garden in London, and the Himara Waterfront in Albania. Smets’s work proposes a compelling vision for more resilient and climate-responsive cities.