Seacities: Aquatic Urbanism

Prof. Joerg Baumeister (joergbaumeister.com) initiated and leads the SeaCities Lab (SeaCities.org) which develops and implements water-adapted urban solutions (aquacities) and floating structures (aquatecture). Its holistic research approach - which spans and includes the disciplines of architecture, engineering, and environmental sciences - develops new concepts for building with and for nature and creating ecosystem-based developments that respond to the current challenges in an adaptive and compatible fashion.

He is an internationally awarded architect with a higher Doctorate in Engineering and attracted multi-million-dollar grants for transdisciplinary research projects with the industry and government institutions which have been published in books, government reports and journal articles.

Ioana Corina Giurgiu is SeaCities Ph.D. researcher, currently developing a thesis on hybrid water-based urban system designs. She graduated with Honours from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and as a certified Passivhaus designer and registered architect, she has worked on a number of Passivhaus and energy-efficient projects in UK and Romania. Her research focus is on decreasing the environmental footprint of the built environment via hybrid designs which create symbiotic relationships between natural and built environments.

Despina Linaraki is an architect engineer. Despina Linaraki is a Ph.D. researcher at SeaCities, Cities Research Institute, Queensland. She has completed a Master of Science, 2015 from Columbia University in New York, at Advanced Architectural Design and the Development of Global Cities. Furthermore, she holds a Master's of Architectural Engineering, 2013 from Technical University of Crete, in Greece. Since 2014, she is a registered architect in Greece. Having lived experience in different coastal cities around the world, she is researching nature-based solutions for the adaptation of low-lying islands and coastal cities to sea level changes and floods through the interdisciplinary of architecture with the fields of biology and geology.

Prof. Daniela A. Ottmann has a distinguished 20-year architecture and urban design career across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Africa, and China. Her expertise in designing, researching and educating for diverse bio-climatic and socio-cultural environments has earned her leading expert status. Dr. Ottmann promotes sustainable urban development, collaborating with UN-Habitat and championing 'Inclusive Sustainable Urban Development'. Beyond professorial affiliations in Germany, Australia and the UAE, she is an Associate Professor at Bond University, leading postgraduate research-enabled learning for Architectural Sustainable Development and Climate Design. Her notable publications, including "Urban Ecolution: Future solutions for healthy and ecologically integrated cities," "Housing+ modular housing system," "Ecological Materials for Deserts and Drylands," and "Urban Correlator," have contributed significantly to the field of architecture and urban design.

教授喬格·鮑梅斯特（Joerg Baumeister）創立並領導了海城市實驗室（SeaCities Lab），該實驗室開發並實施適應水域的城市解決方案（aquacities）和浮動結構（aquatecture）。其整體研究方法涵蓋建築、工程和環境科學等多個學科，旨在開發與自然共生的建築新概念，並創造基於生態系統的發展，以適應當前挑戰，並以兼容的方式回應這些挑戰。

他是一位國際獲獎的建築師，擁有工程學的高級博士學位，並為跨學科的研究項目吸引了數百萬美元的資助，這些項目與行業和政府機構合作，並已發表在書籍、政府報告和期刊文章中。

伊奧娜·科琳娜·吉爾吉烏（Ioana Corina Giurgiu）是海城市的博士研究員，目前正在開發有關混合水域城市系統設計的論文。她以優異成績畢業於倫敦建築協會學院，並作為認證的被動房設計師和註冊建築師，參與了多個在英國和羅馬尼亞的被動房及節能項目。她的研究重點是通過混合設計減少建成環境的環境足跡，創造自然與建成環境之間的共生關係。

德斯皮娜·利納拉基（Despina Linaraki）是一位建築工程師。她是海城市的博士研究員，隸屬於昆士蘭城市研究所。她於2015年在美國哥倫比亞大學完成了科學碩士學位，專攻先進建築設計和全球城市發展。此外，她於2013年在希臘克里特技術大學獲得建築工程碩士學位。自2014年以來，她在希臘註冊為建築師。她在世界各地不同的沿海城市生活過，正在研究基於自然的解決方案，以適應低窪島嶼和沿海城市面對海平面變化和洪水的挑戰，並將建築學與生物學和地質學等領域進行跨學科研究。

丹妮拉·A·奧特曼教授（Daniela A. Ottmann）在歐洲、中東、澳大利亞、非洲和中國擁有20年的卓越建築和城市設計職業生涯。她在多樣的生物氣候和社會文化環境中設計、研究和教育的專業知識，使她成為領先的專家。奧特曼博士推廣可持續城市發展，與聯合國人居署合作，倡導「包容性可持續城市發展」。除了在德國、澳大利亞和阿聯酋的教授職位外，她還是邦德大學的副教授，負責建築可持續發展和氣候設計的研究生研究導向學習。她的著作包括《城市生態演變：健康和生態整合城市的未來解決方案》、《Housing+ 模組化住房系統》、《沙漠和乾旱地區的生態材料》和《城市關聯器》，對建築和城市設計領域做出了重要貢獻。