Joanna Rayss

PhD eng. Landscape Architect, expert in the implementation of the Green Infrastructure of the City and Surface Urban Retention Systems (polish SPRiM) as tools for climate change adaptation. She defended the doctoral desertation at the Faculty of Architecture in the Gdańsk University of Technology entitled ‘The Green Infrastructure of the city and rainwater. The potential of sustainable development in Gdańsk’in 2018.

Working as a small retention specialist in the Gdańsk municipal company Gdańskie Wody, thanks to the development of proprietary design and organizational tools, she had the opportunity to influence the change in urban rainwater management policy towards a greater use of ecohydrology principles, urban ecology and ecosystem services.

Since 2009 she is running his own design studio: ZIELENIARIUM,specializing in shaping public areas, estate greenery with the Nature Based Solutions and the ecological design.