The Living City: Designing the Public Realm as Regenerative Infrastructure

As cities evolve, architecture and landscape are converging into a single living framework. This talk explores how civic infrastructure can serve as both cultural foundation and ecological system, shaping climate, community, and identity. Drawing on several national projects inspired by Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, Jon Clokie, Director of Landscape Architecture at Omrania, reflects on design as a regenerative act that heals land, restores continuity, and invites collective belonging. From large-scale planning to human-scale experience, the discussion reveals how infrastructure can move beyond sustainability toward renewal, transforming urban growth into a process that gives back more than it takes. By aligning design intelligence with natural intelligence, the public realm becomes not just the setting of civic life but the living system that sustains it.

Event in English

Speakers:

Jonathon Clokie, Head of Landscape Architecture, Omrania
Moderator Christele Harrouk, Editor-in-Chief, ArchDaily