Prof. dr. ir. Rob Roggema is a Distinguished Professor of Regenerative Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and the principal consultant and director/founder of Cittaideale, office for adaptive design and planning. He is a visiting professor at Queen's University Belfast and the lead author of the Architecture, Urban Design and Planning chapter of the third assessment report of the UCCRN (Urban Climate Change Research Network). He is a Landscape Architect and an internationally renowned design expert on regenerative design, sustainable urbanism, climate adaptation, energy landscapes and urban agriculture. He has previously held several professorship positions at universities in the Netherlands and Australia, State and Municipal governments and design consultancies. Rob developed the Swarm Planning concept, a dynamic way of planning the city for future adaptation to climate change impacts. Rob was the leader of the climate adaptive design 2021 team for the Groningen region (‘Moeder Zernike’), initiated the Food-Energy-Water-nexus project ‘the Moveable Nexus’ (SUGI/JPI-Europe), lead the design team of ‘Nature-Rich Netherlands’ and Greening NEOM. For his PhD, he developed the Swarm Planning concept, a dynamic way of planning urban landscapes for future adaptation to climate change impacts. Rob has designed and led over 30 design charrettes around the world, involving communities, academics, governments and industries in design processes for more resilient communities. He is the series editor of the Contemporary Urban Design Thinking series. Additionally, he has written books on nature- and landscape driven planning and design of landscapes and cities, climate adaptation and design, Urban Agriculture, and about design charrettes, Rio’s FoodRoofs and Design for Recovery in Japan.
