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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this very moment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with every breath we take,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,major ... cities \Nacross the globe are sinking,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including New York, London,\NTokyo, Shanghai,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New Orleans,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as well as my city, Bangkok.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is the usual version\Nof climate change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is mine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing much,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a crocodile on the street.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an urgent impact\Nof climate change:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our sinking cities.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here you can see urbanization of Bangkok,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing in every direction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shifting from porous,\Nagricultural land --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the land that can breathe\Nand absord water,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a concrete jungle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what parts of it look like\Nafter 30 minutes of rainfall.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every time it rains,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish my car could turn into a boat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This land has no room for water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has lost its absorbent capacity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reality of Bangkok metropolitan region\Nis a city of 15 million people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living, working and commuting on top\Nof shifting, muddy river delta.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bangkok is sinking more\Nthan one centimeter per year.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is four times faster\Nthan the rate predicted at sea level rise,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we could be below sea level by 2030,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which will be here too soon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no coincidence that I am here\Nas a landscape architect.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a child,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in a rowhouse
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next to the busy road\Nalways filled with traffic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In front of my house,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was a concrete parking lot,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was my playground.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only living creature I would find,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had fun with,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were these sneaky little plants\Ntrying grow through the crack
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the concrete pavement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My favorite games with friends
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to dig the bigger and bigger hole\Nthrough this crack
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to let this little plant creep out --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sneak out more and more.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yes, landscape archtitecture\Ngives me the opportunity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to continue my cracking ambition --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to connect this concrete land\Nback to nature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before Thais --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my people --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were adapted to the cycle\Nof the wet and dry season,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you could all us amphibious.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We lived both on land and on water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were adapted to both.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And flooding was a happy event\Nwhen the water fertilized our land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now flooding means disaster.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2011, Thailand was hit\Nby the most damaging
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and most expensive flood disaster\Nin our history.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Flooding as turned central Thailand\Ninto an enormous lake.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here you can see the scale of the flood\Nin the center of the image
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the scale of Bangkok\Noutlined in yellow.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The water was overflowing from the north,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making its away across several provinces.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Millions of my people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including me and my family,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were displaced and homeless.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some had to escape the city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many were terrified of losing\Ntheir home and their belongings,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they stayed back in the flood\Nwith no electricity and clean water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, this flood reflects clearly\Nthat our modern infastructure --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and especially our notion\Nof fighting flood with concrete
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had made us so extremely vulnerable\Nto the climate uncertainty.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the heart of this disaster,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found my calling.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cannot just sit and wait\Nas my city continues to sink.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The city needed me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have the ability\Nto fix this problem.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Six years ago,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started my project.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My teams and I won the design competition\Nfor Chulalongkorn Centennial Park.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the big, bold mission\Nof the first university in Thailand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for celebrating its hundredth anniversary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by giving this piece of land\Nas a public park to our city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having a park sounds very normal\Nto many other cities,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not in Bangkok,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has one of the lowest\Npublic green space per capita
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among megacities in Asia.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our project's become the first\Nnew public park in almsot 30 years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The 11-acre park,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a big green crack at the heart of Bangkok,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opened just last year.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For four years,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have pushed through countless meetings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to convince and never\Ngiving up to convince
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this park isn't just\Nfor beautification or recreation;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it must help the city deal with water;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it must help the city\Nconfront climate change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here is how it works.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bangkok is a flat city,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we harnessed the power of gravity\Nby inclining the whole park
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to collect every drop of rain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gravity force pulls down\Nthe runoff from the highest point
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the lowest point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This park has three main elements\Nthat work as one system.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first, the green roof.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the biggest green roof\Nin Thailand,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the rainwater tanks\Nand museum underneath.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the dry season,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the collected rain can be used\Nto water the park up to a month.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The runoff on the green roof\Nthen fall through wetlands
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the native water plants\Nthat can help filter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and help clean water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the lower end,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the retention pond collects\Nall of the water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this pond, there are water bikes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People can pedal and help clean water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their exercise becomes an active part\Nof the park water system.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When life gives you flood,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have fun with the water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Centennial Park gives room for people\Nand room for water,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is exactly\Nwhat we in our cities need.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an amphibious design.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This park is not\Nabout getting rid of flood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about creating a way to live with it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not a single drop of rain\Nis wasted in this park.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This park can hold and collect\Na million gallons of water.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every given project, for me,\Nis an opportunity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create more green cracks\Nthrough this concrete jungle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By using landscape architeture as solution,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like turning this concrete roof\Nto an urban farm,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can help absorb rain,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reduce urban heat [...],
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and grow food in the middle of the city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reuse the abandoned concrete structure\Nto become a green pedestrian bridge.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And another flood proof park\Nat .. ... University,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which nearly completes the biggest\Ngreen roof on an academic campus yet
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Southeast Asia.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Severe flooding is our new normal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Putting Southeast Asian region,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the region with the most coastline,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at extreme risk.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Creating a park is just one solution.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The awareness of climate change\Nmean we --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in every profession were are involved in,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are increasingly obligated\Nto understand the climate risk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put whatever we are working on\Nas part of the solution.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if our cities continue\Nthe way they are now,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a similar catastrophe will happen again
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Creating a solution\Nin these sinking cities
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like making impossible possible,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would liek to share one word\Nthat I always keep in mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is, "Tang Jai."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tang Jai's literal translation --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Tang is to firmly stand,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Jai means heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Firmly stand your heart at your goal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Thai language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you commit to do something,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you put Tang Jai in front of your work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so your heart will be in your action.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No matter how rough the path,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how big the crack,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you push through to your goal,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's where your heart is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yes, Thailand is home.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This land is my only home,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's where I firmly stand my heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do you stand yours?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Kob Kuhn Ka]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause and cheers)