Sustainable Post-disaster Reconstruction: from Recovery to Risk ReductionConference Programme

Monday 27 May 2013 Conference opening and keynotesLinking reconstruction with disaster risk reduction

Tuesday 28 May 2013 Long-term impacts of reconstruction programmesSustainable building technologies

Wednesday 29 May 2013 Post-disaster reconstruction in urban areasExcursion to the Brissago Island

Thursday 30 May 2013 Bridging the gap between theory and practice

Monday 27 May 2013Morning Programme

Conference Opening and Keynotes

9:00 – 10:00Auditorium

Conference opening, welcome speeches, and presentation of the programme

Hon. Paolo Beltraminelli, President of the State Council of Canton Ticino, SwitzerlandProf. Franco Gervasoni, Director General of the Univer-sity of Applied Sciences of Southern SwitzerlandDr. Chiara Cometta, Administrative Director, Centro Stefano FransciniMr. Lorenzo Sonognini, Director, Monte Verità FoundationDr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Conference Chair

10:00 – 10:45Auditorium

What, how, who: ensuring safe, sustainable post-disaster shelter

KEYNOTE BYGraham Saunders, Head, Shelter and Settlement, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cres-cent Societies (IFRC)

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:00Auditorium

Looking back to look ahead: impacts of disaster reconstruction on culture, nature, and governance

KEYNOTE BYSushma Iyengar, Social Development Practitioner, Bhuj, India

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch

Monday 27 May 2013Afternoon Programme

Linking reconstruction with disaster risk reduction

14:00 – 16:00Room Eranos

Session 1.1: Chaired by Dr. Colin Davidson

An Evaluation Framework for Assessing Resilience of Post-Disaster Housing

Iftekhar Ahmed and Esther Charlesworth, RMIT, University, Melbourne

Constructing Community at the Epicenter: Collaborative governance in post-earthquake Haiti

Jayne Engle-Warnick, Lisa Bornstein, McGill University, and Gonzalo Lizarralde, University of Montreal

Strategy Formation in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Jason von Meding, Centre for Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research, University of Newcastle, Australia and Matthew Campbell, Queen’s University Belfast

Small-Scale Disasters and the Recovery Process Sushma Shrestha, School of Environment, The Universi-ty of Auckland, and JC Gaillard, School of Environment, The University of Auckland

14:00 – 16:00Room Balint

Session 1.2: Chaired by Prof. Makarand Hastak

Post Disaster Reconstruction and World Trade Mechanisms: An Agenda for Enquiry

Ali Asgary and Bertie Rowell, York University, Toronto, Canada

Building community resilience through Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene programmes during post disaster recovery

Sneha Krishnan and Cassidy Johnson, University College of London, UK

The barriers to a community contracts approach in post-disaster reconstruction

Kelvin Zuo, Regan Potangaroa, Suzanne Wilkinson, University of Auckland, New Zealand

International NGOs’ competences towards reconstruction of the built environment in the region of Tohoku, Japan

Sandra Milena Carrasco MansillaGraduate School of Global Environmental Studies Global Environmental ArchitectureKyoto University

16:00 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00Auditorium

Plenary Feedback chaired by Graham Saunders and Sushma Iyengar

19:00 Dinner

20:30 – 21:00Room Eranos

Information exchange about i-Rec Prof. Gonzalo Lizarralde, Dr. Cassidy Johnson, and Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein

21:00Auditorium

“Re-constructing the city”, 3 short films on post-earthquake reconstruction in Haiti

Produced and presented by Cate Crawford and Alison Killing with Anna Wachtmeister

Tuesday 28 May 2013Morning Programme

Long-term impacts of reconstruction programmes

8:45 – 9:30Auditorium

Building Houses and Making Homes: Cultural Dimensions of Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Resettlement

KEYNOTE BYProf. Anthony Oliver-Smith, University of Florida

9:30 – 12:30Room Balint

Session 2.1: Chaired by Dr. Jason von Meding

No Fixed Address: Housing, Land and Property Issues in a Stateless Somalia

Brett Moore, Shelter and Infrastructure Advisor, World Vision International

Quantifying Sustainability in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters (QSAND)

Yetunde Abdul, BRE Global and Ela Serdaroglu, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cres-cent Societies (IFRC)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

Temporary housing: An obstacle or an opportunity for enhancing community resilience in Bam, Iran

Mahmood Fayazi and Gonzalo Lizarralde, University of Montreal

Media Coverage of Post Disaster Recovery and Re-construction: Case of 2012 East Azerbaijan Earth-quake

Ali Asgary, York University and Daryoush Ayvaziankari, York University

9:30 – 12:30Room Eranos

Session 2.2: Chaired by Prof. Rohit Jigyasu

Beyond the Appearance of Heritage: a discussion on building techniques used in the reconstruction of historic areas affected by the 2010 earthquake in Chile

Bernadette Devilat, The Bartlett School of Architec-ture, University College London, UK

Social organization, power structures, leadership capacities and resettlement outcome: Communities’ perspectives

Esther Leemann, University of Luzern, Switzerland

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

Community Engagement: Rebuilding Samoan Fale post 2009 tsunami

Jokatama Waqabaca, Mary Panko, and Regan Potangaroa, Unitec Institute of Technology

Sustainability and Resilience Building after Natural Disaster

Honglei Yi, Queensland University of Technology, South China University of Technology, and Jay Yang, Queensland University of Technology

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Tuesday 28 May 2013Afternoon Programme

Long-term impacts of reconstruction programmes (cont.) and Sustainable building technologies

14:00 – 16:30Room Eranos

Session 2.3: Chaired by Prof. Gonzalo Lizarralde

Patterns of adaptation to agency-built villages: the case of a relocated community in Gujarat, India

Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Akbarnazim Modan, Katheeja Taha, and Rajendra Manaria, World Habitat Research Centre, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland

Understanding Patterns of Physical transformations in Reconstructed Settlements: the Case of Post Earthquake Housing in Marathwada, India

Rohit Jigyasu, IIHS New Delhi, India and Nishant Upadhyay, Leuven University, Belgium

Can Architects Contribute to Making a Difference in Post-Disaster Reconstruction? Post-Disaster Hous-ing and the Role of Architects: a Case Study in Rural South India

Gertrud Tauber, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany

Emerging stronger? Measuring the impact of Habitat for Humanity’s housing reconstruction programme following the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Victoria Maynard, University College of London

Housing reconstruction after disasters in Iran: the case of Gavarzin after the earthquake of November 2005

Haleh Sadat Nabavi Razavi, University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran

14:00 – 16:30Room Balint

Session 3.1: Chaired by Dr. Cassidy Johnson

Guidelines to improve sustainability and cultural integration of temporary housing units

Daniel Félix, CITAD, University Lusíada of Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, Artur Feio, CITAD, University Lusíada of Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal and Jorge M. Branco, ISISE, University of Minho, Portugal

People Centered Housing Recovery: An Analysis of Post Disaster Housing Reconstruction Case Stud-ies using the Concept of Transitional Housing”

Elizabeth Maly, Disaster Reduction and Human Renova-tion Institute and Tamiyo Kondo, Kondo University, Japan

Seismic Risk Reduction through training and com-munication: The experience of the SDC’s Compe-tence Centre for Reconstruction in Haiti

Tom Schacher, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), Bern, Swizterland

Dwelling in post disaster reconstruction: an assess-ment methodological proposal

Marco Morandotti and Elisa Salvaneschi, University of Pavia

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 17:30Room Balint

Consultation on the CIB-UNISDR Research roadmap on Disasters and the Built Environment (CIB = International Council for Research and Innova-tion in Building and Construction)

Cassidy Johnson, Task Group Coordinator for CIB TG 63 – Disasters and the Built Environment with Gonzalo Lizarralde, TG63 member

17:30 – 18:30Auditorium

Plenary feedback chaired by Prof. Anthony Oliver-Smith

19:00 Dinner

20:30Auditorium

Draquila, l’Italia che trema A Film by Sabina Guzzanti Introduced by Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, WHRC and Prof. Claudia Mattogno, University la Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Wednesday 29 May 2013Morning Programme

Post-disaster reconstruction in urban areas

8:30 – 9:15 Urban reconstruction: Opportunities, limits and challenges

KEYNOTE BY:Dr. Thiruppugazh Venkatachalam, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, Ahmedabad, India

9:15 – 12:15Room Eranos

Session 4.1: Chaired by Dr. Catherine Crawford

Urban resilience: Short-term recovery and long-term adaptation after floods in Canada

Erly Arner Reyes, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, and Gonzalo Lizarralde, IF Research Group, École d’architecture, University of Montreal

L’Aquila post-earthquake 2009: the need for commu-nity restoration

Claudia Mattogno, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15 The Need for Integrated Rubble Management in the Aftermath of Disasters and Conflicts

Erik Krogh Lauritzen, Lauritzen Advising, Denmark

Titanyen: An abiding architecture in peri-urban Haiti Marie Aquilino, Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris

Long-term reconstruction in Christchurch: Learning from its governance structure

Alice Yan Chang-Richards, University of Auckland,Suzanne Wilkinson, University of AucklandErica Seville, University of Canterbury, David Brunsdon, Kestrel Group Regan Potangaroa, Unitec, Auckland, NZ

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30Auditorium

Plenary feedback chaired by Dr. Thiruppugazh Venkatachalam

Afternoon Programme

Excursion to the Brissago Island

15:00 Departure from Monte Veritá

16:00 Boat from Ascona to the Islands

16:00 – 17:30 Visit to the Botanical Garden and relaxing

17:30 – 19:00 Relaxing and networking with Aperitif at the Restaurant Isole di Brissago

19:00 Dinner at Restaurant Isole di Brissago

22:00 Return to Monte Verità

Thursday 30 May 2013

Bridging the gap between theory and practice

9:00 – 11:00Auditorium

Panel discussion on “Bridging the Gap between theory and practice”◆ Introduction◆ Issues and challenges◆ Panellists’ statement◆ Debate◆ Open discussion

Prof. Colin Davidson (Moderator)Panelists: ◆ Sushma Iyengar◆ Cassidy Johnson◆ Ueli Salzmann◆ Graham Saunders◆ Anthony Oliver-Smith◆ Thiruppugazh Venkatachalam

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:15Auditorium

◆ Michal Lyons Award for best paper◆ Arcop Award for best student project

◆ CSF Award for best oral presentation

◆ Concluding remarks and vote of thanks

Prof. Gonzalo Lizarralde, University of Montreal

Dr. Chiara Cometta, Administrative Director, Centro Stefano Franscini

Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, WHRC,University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch

14:00 Departure