Writing & Talks

Selected articles, publications, lectures and conversations on landscape architecture, climate adaptation, public space and nature-based solutions.

Lectures & Talks

  • Keynote · February 2026
    Green Days Finland, Jyväskylä

    The Ecology of Comfort

    Keynote lecture at Viherpäivät, the Finnish green industry congress, on designing climate adaptation through everyday comfort.

  • Keynote · 2023
    Nordic Park Congress, Helsinki

    Nature-based Solutions in Public Realm Design: from Athens to the Nordics, from Singapore to the Pacific Northwest

  • Invited lecture · July 2023
    DOMA Summer School on heat stress, Athens

    Heat Risk Reduction Guidelines

  • Masterclass · November 2022
    International Living Future Institute

    Water Sensitive Urban Design and Regenerative Design

Articles & Publications

  • Article · December 2025
    Schwammstadt Magazine

    Auf dem Weg zur kühlenden Stadt

    On the path to the cooling city: heat, water and vegetation as connected design questions for German municipalities.

  • Technical guide · 2022
    Arsht-Rock Resilience Center

    Heat Risk Reduction Guidelines for the Hadrian Aqueduct Cooling District

    Technical guide in Greek and English, developed with Alchemia Nova for the Arsht-Rock Resilience Center.

  • Journal paper · 2021
    Water (MDPI)

    Closing water cycles in the built environment through nature-based solutions: the contribution of vertical greening systems and green roofs

    Co-authored journal paper.

  • Journal paper
    Blue-Green Systems

    Enhancing the circular economy with nature-based solutions in the built urban environment

    Co-authored journal paper.

  • Book · 2016
    Routledge

    Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe

    Contributor to the edited volume.

  • Paper · 2018
    26th Symposium Deltas and Wetlands, Tulcea

    What's next for China's Sponge Cities?

Research

  • 2018–2023
    COST Action CA17133

    Circular City

    Co-leader of Working Group 1: Built Environment.

  • 2018–2023
    COST Action CA17109

    DAMOCLES

    Co-leader of Working Group 2: Stakeholder Engagement.

  • 2022–ongoing
    COST Actions

    SMILES, MARGISTAR and CircularB

    MC Member of COST Actions on island resilience (SMILES), marginalised mountain areas (MARGISTAR) and circular construction (CircularB).