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Architecture and Resilience on the Human Scale SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND L I V E W S O K R R K PEDAGOGY O Building S AND W Local PRACTICE L E Resilience I V V I E L W O S K R SOCIETY Architecture and Resilience on the Human Scale Cross-Disciplinary Conference Sheffield 10-12 September 2015 Twitter | @SSoA_news #SSoAResilience Email | [email protected] Website | www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture/latest/events/resilienceconference CONTENTS 2 Welcome by Irena Bauman 3 Scientific and organising committees 4 Programme at a glance 8 Venue Information 10 Getting your bearings 12 Keynote Speaker Biographies 19 Local Resilience, Science and Technology Abstracts STRAND 1 20 Keynote abstracts | Sue Roaf and Sally Weintrobe 22 Abstracts Summary 25 Abstracts 41 Local Resilience and Society Abstracts STRAND 2 42 Keynote abstracts | Adriana Allen and Andrew Simms 44 Abstracts Summary 47 Abstracts 65 Local Resilience, Pedagogy and Practice Abstracts STRAND 3 66 Keynote abstracts | Jörg Stollmann, Daniel D’Oca and Katherine Gibson 69 Abstracts Summary 71 Abstracts 93 Thursday and Friday Events OTHER EVENTS 94 Thursday | Evening at Exchange Place 96 Friday | Disruptive Workshops 102 Friday | Evening Programme 104 Friday | Summer School Presentation 106 Friday | Keynote Speakers, Adriana Allen and Andrew Simms 107 Friday | Conference Dinner, About Our Hosts 108 Friday | Evening Entertainment 109 Saturday Events SATURDAY EVENTS 110 Saturday | Programme 111 Saturday | Architecture Practice Research: Designing for Resilience, Abstracts 115 Saturday | City Debate 116 Keynote Abstracts | Kristien Ring, Cristina Cerulli and Tina Saaby 120 Saturday | Book launch: ‘Imagine Castlegate’ 121 Saturday | Closing drinks 122 MArch SSoA Student work | Thinking on Resilience 124 Notes 127 Acknowledgements Welcome SCIENTIFIC and organising Committees Why Architecture and Resilience on the Human Scale Conference? Irena Bauman Professor at SSoA and Director of Bauman Lyons Architects At SSoA we consider Resilience to be one of the and the desire to design solutions to the defining issue of this century. There are changes environmental crisis. already in motion such as climate warming and other conditions arising from chronic urban Architects and architectural academics, are now stresses such as high unemployment, extreme working collaboratively, researching and wealth discrepancies, violence and water innovating across disciplines as varied as shortages that are increasingly difficult to materials science, building physics, mitigate against. These are happening with such construction methods, social and economic acceleration that many societies are caught out regeneration, new forms of governance, co- with insufficient time and other resources to production methods and service design, and we adapt in a seamless and timely manner. Our are developing solutions for mitigation and for society is already experiencing repeated shocks adaptation that contribute to growing resilience which require personal and collective resilience and to positive transformations. to withstand them. Resilience is therefore required to create that buffer zone of space and We have staged an international conference to time within which we can adapt our behaviour scope the many ways that architectural to mitigate against further acceleration of these academics and practicing architects are conditions and to adapt and transform into a low engaging with issues of resilience, to collate the carbon, and socially more just way of life. emerging knowledge to set it in a theoretical context. Also, this conference celebrates this Architects have a major contribution to make to body of work and the contribution it is making building of local resilience as we have the towards transformational society. capacity to analyse and innovate and architecture itself is, by nature, is locally rooted If we are to continue to grow such contributions, - it does not move. Also architecture forms the academics, educators, architectural physical infrastructure of neighbourhoods - researchers and practitioners will have to these neighbourhoods are the smallest unit of continue to break with all types of silo thinking resilience, and the urban cells from which and instead, embrace systems thinking and take resilience of the entire urban organism is build. onboard the learning conditions recently described by the anthropologist Henrietta Whilst our professional establishment is still Moore : “the future learning will not be about largely preoccupied with its own self the transferability of whole models with importance and with protection of its own known outcomes, but rather about rather tiny kingdom, many architects are opting incomplete learning, experimentation and to operate beyond professional silos collaboration.” increasingly driven by concerns for social justice 2 | Architecture and Resilience SCIENTIFIC and organising Committees Organising Committee Irena Bauman Doina M Petrescu Beatrice De Carli Flora Samuel Jian Kang Fionn Stevenson Sara J Lancashire Kim Trogal Ranald Lawrence Renata Tyszczuk Scientific Committee | Local Resilience and Science Strand Dr Marty Anderies Professor Niklaus Kohler Arizona State University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Dr Sarah Burch Professor Martin Mayfield University of Waterloo, Canada University of Sheffield Ian Cooper Professor Steven Moore Eclipse Research Consultants, Cambridge University of Texas at Austin Professor Michael Davies Professor Edward Ng UCL, London. Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor Michael Eden Professor Sue Roaf Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Herriott-Watt University Scientific Committee | Local Resilience, Pedagogy and Practice Dr Camillo Boano Damon Rich Development Planning Unit, UCL Harvard Graduate School of Design Dr Esther Charlesworth Anna Rubbo, Senior Scholar RMIT University, Melbourne The Earth Institute at Columbia University Dr Jennifer Gabrys Dr Meike Schalk Goldsmiths, London. Assistant Professor, KTH University, Stockholm Elke Krasny Sumita Sinha Senior Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Architect Professor Ruth Morrow Professor Jeremy Till Queens University Belfast Dean Central St Martins, University of the Arts London Scientific Committee | Local Resilience and Society Strand Dr. Isabelle Anguelovski Professor Jenny Pickerill Ecological Economics and Integrated Professor of Environmental Geography, Assessment, ICTA, Universitat Autonòma de University of Sheffield Barcelona Dr Asa Swartling Dr Paul Chatterton Stockholm Environment Institute Reader in Cities and Social Change, School of Elanor Warwick Geography, University of Leeds Head of Strategic Research, Affinity Sutton, Reinhard Martinsen Kings College London Former CEO of Metropolitan Region Hannover Professor Rafael Wittek and Head of Planning Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the University of Groningen, Netherlands Sheffield School of Architecture | 3 PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE Thursday | 10 September 2015 11.30 The Workstation Registration 12.45 Cinema 3 WELCOME | Fionn Stevenson 12.50 Cinema 3 ARCHITECTURE, RESILIENCE AND THE HUMAN SCALE | Irena Bauman 13.00 Cinema 3 DIALOGUES | Sue Roaf and Sally Weintrobe Building Local Resilience: Bricks and Feelings | Chaired by Fionn Stevenson 14.15 The Showroom Parallel Sessions Showroom 5a Cinema 3 Showroom 5b Chair: Irena Bauman Chair: Cristina Cerulli Chair: Ranald Lawrence STRAND 1. Strategies for STRAND 2. Co-Housing STRAND 3. Theories for Community Resilience Resilience Building eco-homes for all: Making Communities Disaster Inclusivity, justice and Site-Specific Greenhouse Resilient with High- affordability Superstructures: Social Performance Building (Hyperobjective) Pedestals Technologies Co-housing developments for resilience in housing: The magical encounter Intensification as a strategy knowledge transfer to between resiliency and for resilient rural regeneration increase the number of emancipation? A whatever co-housing developments architecture. Study on the sustainable reconstruction after Resilience: co-fighting the Climate change and earthquake crisis waterscapes of value: cocreating resilience in urban landscapes through diversity 15.15 The Workstation Break 15.30 The Showroom Parallel Sessions Showroom 5a Cinema 3 Showroom 5b Chair: Sue Roaf Chair: Kim Trogal Chair: Doina Petrescu STRAND 1. Strategies for STRAND 2. Collective Agency 1 STRAND 3. Pedagogy Mitigation Interdependence and Transition Skills; investigating The PassivHaus Standard: Sustainable Collective Action. and enabling local resilience minimising overheating risk in The Case of Four Collective in the North of The a changing climate Housing Communities in Netherlands Mexico City The Tectonic Intelligence of Learning Comprehensive Architectural Solutions Waste Disposal Practices in Building Design through a Neighbourhoods facing Resilience Framework Prêt-à-Loger: Zero-Energy Recurring Crises Home with Maximum Living University-Based Rural Quality Increase Risk and Resistance: Sustainable Development globalization, shifting Assistance Strategies boundaries of governability and the production of new Architecture of Multiple spaces of conflict and Authorship: Beyond the self-government Academic Year The Case for a Collaborative Energy Sharing Network for Small Scale Community Microgrids 17.15 Cinema 3 VIDEO LECTURE | Katherine Gibson Cultivating Ethical Ecological-Economic Sensibilities: Strengthening Resilience In Monsoon Asia 18.00 Exchange Place Talks and drinks at Castlegate Studios Co-Producing the City: LiveWorks | Carolyn Butterworth and Rachael Dodd 19.30
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