Bangkok is one of the most vulnerable cities to climate change. Rapid growth experienced by the city has left inadequate space for natural rivers, putting the city at risk from increasing sea levels. Parts of Bangkok are already below sea level, and the city is currently sinking two centimeters a year. Climate change and unsustainable growth have put the city's urban and peri-urban areas at jeopardy because of their high density and rising temperatures. With only 3 square meters of public green space/ person, it has the lowest ratio of public green space to population of any megacity.

CCP's creative and resilient climate solution corresponds with the national sustainable urban development plans by increasing the amount of productive green space in the city. For Bangkok, a productive park that can deal with climate change in a long-term way is more vital than simply adding additional green space. CCP provides Bangkok with a glimmer of hope for the city's future while enabling for fresh landscape architecture strategies to take root.

CCP is the result of the university's and designers' dedication to include all stakeholders in the co-creation process of building a park truly created for the full community. There were numerous public hearings, numerous committee and board meetings, a wide range of people from all walks of life who contributed and exchanged ideas, and finally CCP was born out of this process. CCP considered the economic benefits for the adjacent neighbourhoods as well as the social and environmental impacts it needed to address to achieve sustainable urban growth. The park's visitors and the city's efforts to combat climate change benefit from the activity program that was designed by the park's designers. CCP restores and recreates a climate-resilient and biodiversity-rich environment in the urban context that considers the lifestyles and requirements of urban inhabitants, understanding the ripple effects of a healthy natural ecosystem on society and the economy

As designers, we have the power to spark public conversation and engagement. As such, it is our responsibility to create an open dialogue between those in need and those in power. We use discussion and negotiation as tools to discover the middle ground as well as the deeper desires of the communities we work with. To ensure that we are designing effective and efficient environment friendly solutions, we need to stop copying and pasting technology without considering the context and instead become more attentive to a locale’s people and ecological systems.

A single park can’t control flooding across an entire city, but this is the first step, and a big, bold one. The Chulalongkorn Centenary Park gives us a spark of aspiration in how we can choose to handle our threatening future while allowing room for newfound landscape architecture potential to emerge. As new challenges present itself, we can only see new opportunities sprung up for us to make a difference and save our sinking home.