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…
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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…
Last week, our students embarked on their journey to Peru for our annual field trip. Together with our director Carmen Mendoza Arroyo and assistant director Raquel Colacios, they arrived in Pedregal,…
Last September, our director Carmen Mendoza Arroyo participated in the Canadian Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Reconstruction Research Alliance and i-Rec online debates as a committee member. The debate series was…
In October, guest professor Gonzalo Lizarralde visited to teach the seminar “Unnatural Disasters – Controversies in Low-Cost Housing and Post-Disaster Reconstruction”. During the seminar, our students explored the connections between social injustices,…
In September and October, our students undertook the three-week Humanitarian Shelter & Settlements workshop, offered in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society (IFRC). The…
At our 10th anniversary event, Ian Davis, visiting professor in Lund, Kyoto and at Oxford Brookes as well as honorary professor at RMIT University, spoke to us about “Ten Significant Developments in…
For the 10th anniversary of our Master of International Cooperation and Emergency Sustainable Architecture, we had the honour to welcome Ian Davis as our guest speaker for the event. Drawing on more…
Haznet, the Canadian Risks and Hazards Network‘s dissemination platform, has published a new issue of their magazine title Build Back Better, which include contributions by our faculty member Lorenzo Chelleri…
Just over a month ago on Wednesday September 20, the fifth-strongest storm ever to hit the US made catastrophic landfall on Puerto Rico, killing at least 49 people and upending…