Diego Ramirez The International Conference on Urban Drainage 2021

Diego Ramirez

Diego is Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. His research examines the contributory role that design, and design thinking can play in addressing the significant challenges facing contemporary urban environments -climate change, resource limitations and rapid population growth with a key focus on the Global South and through a lens of planetary health. Diego is the director of the Informal Cities Lab (ICL). The Lab undertakes design-based research exploring and speculating on the conditions of informality in developing cities with specific focus on the Asia-Pacific region. ICL research – designed and conducted in collaboration with government and industry – strives for impact, purposefully and strategically targeting implementation at the intersection of academic research and international development. The Lab has developed a body of design research examining the issues and processes involved in delivering best-practice water-sensitive urban design from the scale of the dwelling to the scale of the catchment in developing city settings. This research addresses a combination of socio-technical challenges and parameters including climate change, behaviour and governance.