Sándor Szilágyi

Marietta Szalai - RÉT - Regenerative Habitat Design

Sándor Szilágyi - Brillfield Aquatic

The two speakers represent two separate professions working in a design partnership to implement nature-based water retention.

Restoring the water balance of our lakes is a complex task that requires not only the cooperation of different disciplines, but also the cooperation of the different actors and land users in the river basin. Rather than centralised, large-scale, high-maintenance engineering installations, the presenters believe in many small-scale interventions that are integrated into the landscape. They call for an integrated approach to water management, where agrotechnology, appropriate plant cover and runoff attenuation are considered as equal tools when considering water retention. These tools can effectively fulfil their function when integrated into an ecological system adapted to land use. Interventions result in the creation of wetlands, increased biodiversity, improved soil functions, reduced soil erosion, and in short, increased vitality and resilience of the area.

Marietta is a landscape architect by profession and has been working on water sensitive landscape architecture since 2017.

Sándor is a design engineer at Brillfield Aquatic and has been working on water conservation interventions since 2014.