par Dobre, Catalina
Référence AESOP 2014 Congress (9-12 July 2014: Utrecht)
Publication Non publié, 2014-07-09
Poster de conférence
Résumé : In risk management, the interventions relied on building large infrastructures (e.g. dams and dikes) using quantitative data on disaster (e.g. rate of occurrence, scenarios of climate change and the rise of sea level). Even if the interventions aimed to decrease the vulnerability of the city, it overlooked its direct impact on the inhabited territory (Doyle & Havlick 2009). A more recent definition of risk emphasizes that an event becomes a catastrophe only if it crosses an inhabited territory. In this way, a direct link is created between the human establishment, the territory it inhabits and the need of protection against disaster (St. Cyr 2005). Thus, two questions arise: how could risk management practices predict the effects on the urban environment, in the long term and what role can urban design play? An answer to the first question was given by the concept of resilience, by integrating uncertainties in the process of management and planning (Ahern 2011). Developing further the concept, Transformative Resilience refers to the capacity of a city to recover from a disaster and more than that, to develop faster (Gotham & Campanella 2010). In this case, in the Transformative Resilient City, the disaster is seen as an opportunity and the process of reconstruction is used in the favor of a faster urban development. The poster, to answer the second question, presents the results of the knowledge exchange organised by RAW (Risk and Architecture Workshop) association in France and Japan. Under the topic of urban development after the disaster or ‘How to live with risk?’ the initiative was based on the idea of sharing knowledge, experiences, ideas and skills. Students, administration, practitioners, and researchers imagined new ways of ‘living with risk’ in unique urban environments.

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