Just returned from their field trip to Peru, our students this week went straight back to the class room for their Low Technology Construction workshop, which focuses on low-tech architecture…
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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,…
The ever-growing impact of climate change, military conflicts, rapid urbanization and economic crises are some of the pressing issues we examine with our students in our master’s degree with a joint…
Our director Carmen Mendoza Arroyo and assistant director Raquel Colacios this summer co-coordinated and participated in this year’s Design, Disaster and Development Research Forum 2 – Learning from Urban Crises:…
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…
We are starting the 2019/2020 academic year with our course “Introduction to Development and Emergency” with Mbongeni Ngulube. Ngulube is an architect and urban designer with experience in informal settlements….
Building, teaching and research collaborations across universities working in the disaster, design and displacement field is the focus of the second Design, Disaster and Development Research Forum – Learning from Urban Crises:…
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…