Dr. Stephan Brenneisen: Living Roofs – Biodiversity and Water Retention by Design Measures

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Central topics: Biodiversity — Rooftops — Urban Political Ecology —

Dr. Stephan Brenneisen from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences has been researching urban biodiversity and roofs for over 25 years. In a video presentation, he talks about his findings. We asked him specifically to speak about what to keep in mind when designing biodiverse roofs. What can landscape architects learn from his extensive experience, how to design performative and biodiverse roofs in a simple and more nature-based way?

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Biodiversity — Botany — Climate Change — Entomology — Ethnobotany / Plant Knowledge — Hydrology — Landscape Architecture — Performative Planting Design — Plant Agency — Research — Rooftops — Soil — Stephan Brenneisen — Urban Metropolis — Urban Political Ecology — Urbanization — Zaš Brezar —

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Featured Voice: Stephan Brenneisen

Stephan Brenneisen is a Swiss ecologist and researcher at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). He is recognized for contributing to the research on urban biodiversity and green roofs, particularly their role in habitat creation.

Interviewer: Zaš Brezar

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Zaš Brezar (b. 1984, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Slovenia) is founder and editor-in-chief of Landezine. Educated as a landscape architect (University of Ljubljana), he spent several years in practice, later establishing Landezine in 2009. He is focused on the production of space, specifically mapping, tracing and interpreting the course of landscape architecture and questioning its role in society and politics of public space.

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