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…
It is Week 2 of the new academic year and our students have moved on to the three-week Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements course. It started off with Post-Disaster Planning from…
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,…
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 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…
Former student Elizabeth Rivera recently featured in an article for the Hispanic Showcase series of the American Institute of Architect’s New Jersey Chapter. Elizabeth at her Master thesis presentation Elizabeth,…
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…
“Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do.” It’s become the go-to adage among post-disaster reconstruction experts who cite poor construction as the man-made cause of fatalities in the event of such…
