With Bryan Bell, Founder of Design Corps, the Public Interest Design Institute, and a Co-Founder of the Social, Economic, Environment Design Network (SEED). Associate Professor in Architecture at North Carolina State University, and author/editor of Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook, Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service through Architecture and Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism.

Training on how designers can expand their practices through working on a wide range of collaborative fee-based and pro bono projects with and for diverse community groups. - Sponsored by HASSELL

6 August, 9:00am - 1:00pm
Koorie Heritage Trust
$120 (incl GST)
Sponsored by HASSELL

With Elizabeth Grant and Jefa Greenaway.

Elizabeth is Associate Professor in HARB, RMIT University, and Adjunct Professor at University of Queensland and University of Canberra. Lead editor of the International Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture, and co-author of Housing and Indigenous People Living with a Disability and Architecture for Aboriginal Children and Families.

Jefa is Lecturer in Architecture, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne and Director, Greenaway Architects. With Reuben Berg, he is Co-Founder of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria, and Regional Ambassador (Oceania) for INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Alliance).

The Indigenous Architecture and Design Forum will explore the nexus between cultural heritage, design and the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples.

6 August, 2:00 - 5:30pm
Koorie Heritage Trust
$40 (incl GST)

Join us to hear three humanitarian architects explore divergent pathways and projects in designing for marginalised communities.

With Bryan Bell (USA), Kirtee Shah (India) and Saiga Hellmén (Finland).

Bryan Bell (USA)
Founder of Design Corps & Social, Economic and Environmental Design (SEED) Network, USA.

Saija Hollmén (Finland)
Director of Hollmen, Reuter, Sandman Architects and Founder of WitLab, Aalto University, Finland.

Kirtee Shah (India)
President of Habitat Forum and Founder of Ahmedabad Study Action Group, India.

7 August, 5:00 - 7:00pm
RMIT Design Hub
FREE

Report of a symposium and exhibition on the design philosophies and work of 12 humanitarian architects, including Shaneen Fantin, Yasmin Lari, Esther Charlesworth, Martyn Hook, David O’Brian and Eric Cesal, August 2018.

Report of a workshop co-hosted by RMIT and Red Cross Australia to explore ways of increasing partnerships across universities and development and disaster recovery agencies aimed at delivering successful post-disaster recovery projects. Participating agencies included CARE Australia, Red Cross Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ARUP, Habitat for Humanity and Live and Learn Environmental Education.

During Humanitarian Architecture Week, Yasmeen Lari – Pakistan’s first woman architect and one of the world’s leading providers of emergency shelter – taught workshop participants how to work with bamboo to construct a half-scale “Prefab OctaGreen Bamboo Shelter” using local techniques and locally available materials and skills.

The 2019 symposium will be held at RMIT Europe in Barcelona on the 29-30 August.

Following the 2018 symposium question of “How do we deal with the pedagogic, spatial and research challenges of global mobility, migration and social inequality?”, the 2019 symposium will explore the challenges of how to train the next generation of professionals with specific understandings and capabilities to work in the disaster and development fields.

The process for the 2019 symposium will include workshopping draft chapters for a book – tentatively titled “Design, Disaster and Displacement: Learning for/from Urban Crises” – on how we are meeting these challenges in our teaching.

Further information: john.fien@rmit.edu.au

How do we deal with the pedagogic, spatial and research challenges of global mobility, migration and social inequality? These questions were explored at an international symposium hosted by HARB and RMIT Europe in Barcelona in July 2018. Involving twelve universities and international agencies working and teaching in the fields of design for disaster and displacement, the symposium sought to:

• Build teaching and research collaborations across universities working in these fields
• Develop a knowledge exchange with leading international agencies to collaborate on practice, teaching and research related to refugee displacement, urban resilience and disaster recovery
• Form a collaborative international network of high-level international agencies and universities working in these fields to promote research for strengthening pathways to impact.

Report of a symposium held at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, April 2016. The symposium was chaired by Esther Charlesworth and discussed the role of architecture in recovery and reconstruction after disaster.