On August 4th, 2020, we witnessed the devastating blast in the port of Beirut. It was one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history. Approximately 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate,…
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As part of our Beirut Workshop, we were honoured to have Brett Moore join us online to explain the UNHCR’s formal humanitarian response to Beirut’s port explosion. Brett Moore is…
INITIAL PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT AT A NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE Following the Introductory Context Workshop held on February 18th and 19th, the UIC and project partners have now entered the design stage of…
During the next month, teachers and students from UIC, AUB, Chalmers and RMIT university will work together on the planning and design components of the post-disaster recovery and reconstruction plan in Bourj Hammoud after the August…
We continue the academic year with our course “Reframing Urban Resilience”, led by professor Dr. Lorenzo Chelleri and our director Dr. Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo. This course gives an introduction of the…
In our course Gender, Space and Culture led by Dr Apen Ruiz, the students are introduced to the various approaches and assumptions that are implicit in the phrase “Gender and…
After starting the year with online classes, our students returned to hands-on learning to gain some practical skills with the workshop Low Technology Construction taught by our professor Emilio Hormías….
Our guest professor Gonzalo Lizarralde from the University of Montreal returned this month to teach the workshop “Unnatural Disasters – Controversies in Low-Cost Housing and Post-Disaster Reconstruction”, exploring the connections between…
At the end of last year, our students participated in the socio-spatial workshop Post-Covid Public Space Transformations. The workshop, led by our director Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo, assistant director Raquel Colacios and…
The global pandemic has overshadowed the last year and our Master’s program, students and staff had to adapt to the “new normal”. Now, as we have moved into the new…