Prof Herbert DREISEITL (Germany) is an urban designer, landscape architect, water artist, interdisciplinary planner, Harvard GSD Loeb fellow, and professor in praxis and visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. An expert on creating Liveable Cities, his work looks into inspiring and innovative approaches to use water to solve urban environmental challenges; connecting technology with aesthetics; and ways to encourage people to care for and develop a sense of ownership in the places they live in. He has realised groundbreaking projects in the fields of urban design, urban hydrology, water art, storm water management, planning and landscape architecture. He lectures worldwide and has authored many publications including three editions of Recent Waterscapes, Planning, Building and Designing with Water. Dreiseitl is also founder of Atelier Dreiseitl, a globally integrated design studio with more than 35 years of history of excellence in urban design, landscape architecture and ecological waterscapes. He integrates the organisation’s strategic design and planning efforts, demonstrating a portfolio of site-responsive interventions in urban planning, hydrology, and environmental engineering. As director of Liveable Cities Lab (LCL), the new think tank at Rambøll Group International, Dreiseitl focuses on urban initiative projects, academic activities and research through worldwide collaborations with universities. He explores the potentials and conditions of liveable cities for the future in areas such as policymaking and good governance, in order to bring the best out of a society, create a culture of inspiration, and facilitate the implementation of better-integrated urban infrastructure.