Elisa Lähde (FI) – Landscape Architect (MARK); Professor, Aalto University

Elisa Lähde is Professor of Landscape Architecture in Aalto University. Her research concentrates on water sensitive urban design and green infrastructures. Lähde is interested in biodiversity, green infrastructures and climate change adaptation in urban development and landscape planning processes. Lähde is experienced with co-creation methods and sees it both as an important tool to scale up urban sustainability and an interesting research method in landscape architecture and has 20 years of experience in practice in the field of landscape architecture.