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R-CUBED Symposium & Workshop

April 16, 2021 - April 17, 2021

SYMPOSIUM:

Best Practices for Community-based and Multidisciplinary, Comprehensive Disaster Response

Friday, April 16, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

R-CUBED: Relief x Reconstruction x Resiliency critically considers the role of academia within community-based disaster relief projects with real stakeholders, sites, and potential impact. The initiative is an ongoing multidisciplinary research collaboration across multiple schools and disciplines, participating in current, pressing social and environmental research. The research emphasizes locations recently affected by natural disasters such as pandemics, floods, storms, earthquakes, and drought and by human-made disasters such as political conflict, social injustice, or economic decline.

Introduction by Giovanni Santamaria, Associate Professor, NYIT School of Architecture and Design

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Opening Remarks / Organized by:

  • Robert Cody, Associate Professor, NYIT-School of Architecture and Design
  • Farzana Gandhi, Associate Professor, NYIT-School of Architecture and Design
  • Jaime (Jim) Martinez, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, NYIT-College of Arts and Sciences

Session 1: Disaster Prep + Pre-Response - Framing the Issues

9 – 9:50 a.m. ET

Presentors:

  • Laurie Schoeman, Senior Program Director, Enterprise Community Partners
  • Arturo A. Massol-Deyá, Executive Director and Biologist, Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas
  • Ann Yoachim, Director, Albert and Tina Small Center at Tulane School of Architecture

Moderator:

  • Carmen Mendoza Arroyo, Assistant Director, School of Architecture Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Barcelona and Co-Director, Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture

Session 2: During + Active Response - Experience on the Front

10 – 10:50 a.m. ET

Presentors:

  • Jonathan Marvel, Founder, Resilient Power Puerto Rico
  • Ron Snyder, Solutions Architect, Cisco Systems, Tactical Operations
  • Jose A. Sanchez, Seismic Design Engineer, Voluntariado de Ingenieros y Profesionales de Puerto Rico and Yanel de Angel, Project Manager/Principal, Perkins&Will and with AREA Research

Moderator:

  • Illya Azaroff, President and State Disaster Coordinator, AIA NYS and Director of Design, +Lab Architect

Session 3: Afterward + Long-term Response - Success over Time

11 – 11:50 a.m. ET)

Presentors:

  • Seth Knudsen, Director of Real Estate Development & Planning, NORA New Orleans Redevelopment Authority
  • Malu Blazquez, Executive Director, REimagina PR
  • Hana Kassem, Principal and Jill Lerner, Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox

Moderator:

  • Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College and Director, Master in Urban Planning

Session 4: Tools for Engagement + Collaboration - Analog/Digital Interfaces

Noon – 12:50 p.m. ET

Presentors:

  • Nico Di Tada, CTO and software engineer, Instedd
  • Arianna Armelli, CEO, Dorothy
  • Ryan Kurlbaum, Associate, Perkins&Will and volunteer at AREA Research / resilientSEE initiative

Moderators:

  • Robert Cody, Associate Professor, NYIT-School of Architecture and Design
  • Farzana Gandhi, Associate Professor, NYIT-School of Architecture and Design
  • Jaime (Jim) Martinez, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, NYIT-College of Arts and Sciences

Closing Remarks

12:50 – 1 p.m.

  • Herman Quarles van Ufford, Consul General of the Netherlands in NY

WORKSHOP:

Disaster Response Toolkit Workshop

Saturday, April 17, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Join us and work within a team of diverse professionals, community stakeholders, and students on disaster scenarios to test-drive our beta R-CUBED digital tool for collaborative engagement. The teams will be multidisciplinary and have participants representing a diverse set of points of view including that of architecture, landscape, urban planning, engineering, infrastructure, public health/medicine, sociology, public policy, community advocates, etc.

The digital tool we are testing aims to visualize data comprehensively across multiple infrastructures to reveal community vulnerabilities due to various disaster threats and cascading system failures. We think this may inspire novel solutions, challenges/gaps, and considerations, especially through multidisciplinary collaboration. The tool also aims to empower communities often left behind and facing systemic issues with ways to connect with each other and with professionals working on the ground.

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Opening Remarks / Organized by:

  • Robert Cody, Associate Professor, NYIT School of Architecture and Design
  • Farzana Gandhi, Associate Professor, NYIT School of Architecture and Design
  • Jaime (Jim) Martinez, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, NYIT College of Arts and Sciences

Introduction to Tools and Scenarios

9 – 10 a.m. ET

  • R-CUBED Toolkit: digital interface
  • Mock Disaster Scenarios
  • Multidisciplinary Teams Created with zoom breakout rooms

Team Working Session 1

10 a.m. – Noon ET

  • Introductions
  • Disaster Site Data and Maps
  • Define Problem and Scope of Work
  • Exercise 1: Solutions for Pre-disaster and During disaster response

Lunch Break

Noon – 1 p.m. ET

Team Working Session 2

1 – 3 p.m. ET

  • Exercise 2: Solutions for Post-disaster and Long-term response

Team Share-out and Reflection

3 – 4:30 p.m. ET

  • Community-based, multidisciplinary, comprehensive proposals
  • Critique of R-CUBED toolkit

Closing Remarks

4:30 – 5 p.m. ET

Register for Both Events

Questions? fgandhi@nyit.edu