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Sustainable Built Environment- a view from Reconstruction
Radha Kunke, Architecture & Development
The Context
Construction, like all forms of human activity, is an intervention in the order of nature and is often violent and damaging to it.
The Context
• Highly scientific, highly technological – highly specialized
• Knowledge is concentrated in the hands of a few
• Knowledge and information is difficult to acquire
• Strong disconnect between the needs expressed by social reality and the interventions
• Traditional knowledge at risk
• Environmental, social damage extensive
• Standardized and ignores plurality
Nature of Construction industry:
The Context
• Disasters affect the poor, vulnerable and marginalized
• No voice and No choice
• Reconstruction and rehabilitation is violent by nature – rapid, destroys habitats, displaces people
• Technologies and methods decided by few
• Traditional knowledges further sidelined and hastened
• Abounds with opportunities to put new methods and approaches in place
Nature of reconstruction:
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• Gujarat earthquake: largescale, massive destruction, recurring infrequently
Owners choice of building materials and technology
Policy initiatives and legimization
• Tamil Nadu tsunami : medium scale destruction, once in a lifetime
Government as a client
Total control over choice of materials and technology
Policy delegitimization of other practices
• Bihar Kosi floods : largescale massive destruction, recurring frequently
traditional practices largely prevalent with bamboo as materials
government push towards ‘pucca’, concrete houses
policy and economic push
3 disasters:
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3 disasters:
A viewpoint from the ground at the Science & Technology of (re)construction industry vis-à-vis the manifesto
The technologies themselves - dominant, alternatives, traditional - building materials, design, techniques and methods
Knowledge development management in (re)construction industry
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The focus:• Justice, Sustainability and Plurality
• longer term community solutions
• democratic processes on S&T <?>
• relation between science, violence and inequity
• influence of S&T on policies & guidelines
• relationship of “citizen” with the “scientist”
• innovations and their relation to traditional systems
• Position of traditional crafts and skills and alternatives
• Bring to fore the existing plurality of expertise
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The Methodology
• Reviewing secondary data – policies, reports, evaluations, studies, technical guidelines related to the 3 disasters
• Gathering viewpoints of communities, NGOs, practitioners, technologists etc. Juxtaposing the two to arrive at a S&T understanding of Reconstruction
• Sharing the case study in 2 or 3 roundtables
• Sharing the case study with various actors
• Integration of the results of the roundtables and people’s reactions into the case study.
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Advisory team (proposed)
• D.K.Mishra ji
• John D’Souza
• Mohan Rao
Study team
• A&D – Radha
• CED – team
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Timeline
• July – November 2009
• July – develop framework, gathering materials
• August – reviewing materials, distill points
• September – discuss with various people
• October – integrate findings, share and integrate again
• November – preparation of final draft
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Budget:
Case Leader: 12 days a month x 5 months @ Rs.3,000 per day = 1,80,000
Research asst: 2 days a month x 5 months @ 800 per day = 80,000
Communications & Equipments: = 15,000
Travel for case leader and assistant: = 80,000
Focus group meetings: Rs.15,000 per meeting @ 3 meetings: = 45,000
Co-ordination and institutional expenses: = 50,000
Total: = 4,50,000
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