Is the past a foreign country?
Leaving behind homeland, customs and habits pave the way to a process where collective memories are eroded. Enculturation helping to connect remembrance with resilience is… Read More »Is the past a foreign country?
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Urbanities.
How is urban resilience related to sustainability? Can we bounce forward after a disaster when everything condemns us to bounce back? Is vulnerability really opposed… Read More »Urbanities.
Portfolio
Hanging by a thread. Echoing the junction between identified and unidentified realms, “Hanging by a thread” displays a three steps scenario showing the initial picture… Read More »Portfolio
About
About urban resilience and photography. The ambiguity. Much has been written on the conceptual framing of urban resilience and how to operationalize it, engaging all… Read More »About
Building on vulnerability.
Urban environments are increasingly dynamic, complex, and interconnected. Yet, urban design is too often focused on engineering aiming at balancing economic efficiency with risk management,… Read More »Building on vulnerability.
Desperately looking for …
Ageing trend is seen as challenging disasters risk reduction due to higher vulnerability. Our elders need to cope with fragile health and the covid pandemic… Read More »Desperately looking for …
Home sweet home, they said.
Where is this couple gone? Homeless are not poor having caused their own plight. Homelessness is not a matter of sickness. It questions our “Sense… Read More »Home sweet home, they said.
Hanging over disasters.
There is no disaster without the interpretation from which it originates. From archaic societies with disasters considered as ‘”acts of God” to Rousseau’s letter raising… Read More »Hanging over disasters.
Disasters are not natural.
Beyond semantics and the importance of words, using the expression “natural disasters” leads to place the responsibility of disasters on Nature and by doing so,… Read More »Disasters are not natural.
