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Conference:Design for Urban Disaster
United Kingdom Architecture News - Apr 19, 2014 - 14:34 3376 views
Conference
May 5-7, 2014
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
What is an urban approach to disaster preparedness and response?
Urban disasters are on the increase, with rapid urbanization causing more people to live in places vulnerable to hazards such as flood, earthquake and tsunami.
This conference invites humanitarian aid practitioners, those in government and designers from spatial/physical disciplines to explore ways to improve actions before and after disaster.
The conference addresses three key themes:
response - efforts to improve relief and recovery practice;
resilience - building the capacity of a system, community or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt;
transformation - fundamental change that results in the substantial reduction of a population’s vulnerability.
The conference will take place at The South Asia Institute at Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138. The nearest subway stop is the Harvard station on the "T" Red Line.
Presenters
- Doug Ahlers, Harvard Kennedy School
- Pablo Allard, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
- Avar Almukhtar, Oxford Brookes University
- Maria Ignacia Arrasate, Harvard University GSD
- Ali Asgary, York University, Canada
- Elise Delphine Baudon, Harvard University GSD
- Rick Bauer, Norwegian Refugee Council
- Michael Leighton Beaman, Rhode Island School of Design and Design Technology
- Pierre Belanger, Harvard University GSD
- Enrique Betancourt, National Center for Crime Prevention, Mexico
- Mihir Bhatt, AIDMI, India
- John de Boer, International Development Research Centre, Canada
- Georgia Butina Watson, Oxford Brookes University
- David Campbell, All Hands Project
- Samuel Carter, Rockefeller Foundation
- Stefanie Chang, All Hands Project
- Steve Cochran, Environmental Defense Fund
- Jo Da Silva, Arup International Development
- Diane Davis, Harvard University GSD
- Scott Davis, Rebuild by Design, HUD
- Filiep Decorte, UN-Habitat
- Avery Doninger, All Hands Project
- Ian Dyar, American Red Cross
- Michael Fawcett, American Red Cross
- Joanna Friedman, ACF
- Natalia Christina Gaerlan, Harvard University GSD
- Christine Gaspar, New York City Planning Department
- Karina Lynn Gilbert, Harvard University GSD
- Reinhard Goethert, MIT
- Jeanne Haffner, Harvard University GSD
- Kristen Lee Hunter, Harvard University GSD
- Trevor Johnson, Harvard University GSD
- Charles Kelly, ProAct Network
- Nancy Kete, Rockefeller Foundation
- Jacob Koch, Harvard University GSD
- Alison Killing, Killing Architects, The Netherlands
- Benjamin Krause, J/PHRO
- Dave Hampton, re:ground llc
- Jenny Lamb, Oxfam
- Lynette Larsen
- Nuno Martins, University of Lisbon
- Kaye Matheny, HR and A Associates
- Stephen Metts, GIS Consultant
- Alexandra Middea, York University, Canada
- Nicolas Moyer, Humanitarian Coalition, Canada
- Yannis Orfanos, Harvard University GSD
- Henk Ovink, Harvard University GSD
- Ronak B Patel, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
- Thaddeus Pawlowski, New York City Planning Department
- Marianna Potvin, Harvard University GSD
- Anya Brickman Raredon, Affordable Housing Institute
- Mark Redwood, International Development Research Centre, Canada
- Joyce Klein Rosenthal, Harvard University GSD
- Catherine Seavitt, Structures of Coastal Resilience, CUNY
- Ela Serdaroglu, IFRC
- Kip Scheidler, Habitat for Humanity International
- Theo Schilderman, Building and Social Housing Foundation
- Jeff Shumaker, New York City Planning Department
- Richa Shukla, Harvard University GSD
- Pamela Sitko, Oxford Brookes University
- David Smith, Oxford Brookes University
- David A Smith, Affordable Housing Institute
- Jamie Springer, HR and A Associates
- Victoria Stodart, IFRC
- Stephen Tyler, Adaptive Resource Management Ltd
- Steve Weir, Habitat for Humanity International
- Tom Wildman, OFDA
- Matthew Wilson, Harvard University GSD
- Ann Lee Young, Women’s Refugee Commission
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