Public Lecture
Under the headline “Where the Paths of Water Meet the Places of Culture,” I had the opportunity to present the project Vandets Veje at a public university event in Skagen.
“For the past two hundred years, we in Denmark have effectively regulated the natural water system with canals, piping, and extensive land reclamation projects. The paths of water in the landscape have been adapted to people, not the other way around. However, the man-made water regulation systems are now under extreme pressure from increasing rainfall and, as the stream of daily news shows, are challenged on multiple fronts. And a wide range of experts agree: The solution is not to expand the system, but to develop new ways of managing water. New ways of thinking about land use planning, where we work much more nature-based and holistically with water for the sake of inhabited areas, our nature, and biodiversity.”