What does it really mean to reconstruct after a natural, biological or man-made disaster? Is the repair and reinstatement of buildings and infrastructure sufficient without the mending of social fabric? We believe that the true measure of successful reconstruction should be societal. After all a city without people is no city at all.
Invisible Reconstruction
Cross disciplinary responses to natural, biological and man-made disaster
This forthcoming publication in the UCL Press Fringe Series, explores different strategies for education, preparation and societal rebuilding in a worldwide context and across different typologies of disaster. Looking at approaches to the global challenges of inequality and educational poverty, it investigates the disproportionate impact of disaster on the marginalised and economically underprivileged, from children and the elderly to the physically impaired, as well as on refugees and migrants.
Initiative
Invisible Reconstruction is an interdisciplinary and international initiative aimed at provoking policy change through the entire cycle of disaster from preparedness, through response and to repair, using the instruments of engagement, education and participation to reduce risk, increase institutional transparency and improve outcomes. Our goals are to change how recovery is measured and to promote awareness of the benefits of building resilience through before-the-event action.
Project Initiators
Dr Lucia Patrizio Gunning, UCL.Prof. Paola Rizzi, UNISS.
Prof. Antonella Nuzzaci, University of Messina.
Conference
1 September 2021
Cross disciplinary responses to disaster and approaches to sustainable resilience.
This international and interdisciplinary conference, was held online in the 10th anniversary year of the Great East Japan Earthquake and on the anniversary of the 1923 Kanto earthquake. It focussed on approaches to preparedness and prevention, and on the invisible, intangible processes of societal mending required following man-made, natural and biological disaster.
