Working Group #2 Report: New Models for Disaster Resilient Design Research and Education Disasters Roundtable Workshop #30 Disaster Resilient Design Workshop National Academies’ Disasters Roundtable National Academy of Environmental Design October 26, 2010 Washington, DC

MAIN MESSAGES Working Group: Education & Research

Main Messages: Research & Education 1.New research frameworks 2.Development of new structures that support interdisciplinary approaches 3.Student engagement in the field 4.Building a foundation of the next generation of students, researchers, & design practitioners 5.Find ways to integrate technologies in meaningful ways

Main Message #1: New research frameworks – Inherently interdisciplinary; bodies of knowledge that we need are held by others – Should be integrating sustainable, climate change, disaster resistance Make this the mindset and stepping stone – Ideas to expand inquiry beyond traditional design Greater emphasis on comparative analysis of case study based teaching and research & other methodological approaches

Main Message #1: New research frameworks (con’t) – How we situate our problem-solving in conceptual frameworks – Mechanisms for engagement of theory and pragmatism – Answers will be more local; assumption should be base on principles that are durable & reusable – Design moments in the absence of an event; more proactive approaches (hazard mitigation or risk reduction) – Build in cultural and historical analysis

Main Message #2: Development of new structures that support interdisciplinary approaches – Accreditation; propose standards within this; recognize this as an area that is fundamental of specialization – Inherent structures within discipline – Body of knowledge exists; a specialty area not currently in the norm, but needs to become more mainstream Bringing this to the mainstream Recognizing disaster resilience within sustainable design Public interest design

Main Message #3: Student engagement in the field – Need a set of protocols & methods in place prior to events – Pre-positioning students for engagement in post-disaster research – Visits to disaster affected areas through recovery; condenses learning experiences – Challenge within university structures – A format for collecting data that forms a knowledge based – Partnership between universities/colleges and involving in entire EM process Opportunities for university and practice communities to engage on a continual basis and cultivate relationships Changes the culture of both

Main Message #4: Next generation of students, researchers, & design practitioners – Creation of mentoring programs and mechanisms for creating the next generation – As an example, Enabling Project to foster building an interdisciplinary research community Seeking assistant professors who had never studied disasters to expose them to this area

Main Message #5: Find ways to integrate technologies in meaningful ways – Observation and spatial data; collecting, analyzing, organizing data/information – Geo-spatial approaches for generating and conveying information Integrating the physical & social science datasets, including predictive models

Audiences Public, Officials Researchers Educators Students Practitioners Private sector NGO/non-profit

Conveying the Messages Taking better advantage of target audiences to immerse in experience Helping people visualize what disaster scenarios would look like & what mitigation alternatives might be – Both historical events and potential future events Development of best practices for moving knowledge between universities and communities EMI and other coordinating educational programs Leveraging and embracing technologies in various ways – Frameworks for participatory GIS, and crowd-sourcing – How do we make sure these data are included into the policy and plans – How to better integrate using existing institutional mechanisms, eg plans

Main Messages: Research & Education 1.New research frameworks 2.Development of new structures that support interdisciplinary approaches 3.Student engagement in the field 4.Building a foundation of the next generation of students, researchers, & design practitioners 5.Find ways to integrate technologies in meaningful ways

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