Dialogue 3/4: Climate Change and Disasters

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JEDI Collective Interdisciplinary Dialogue Series Violence, Conflict and Space: Peacebuilding Contributions from the Spatial Disciplines 

Dialogue 3/4: Climate Change and Disasters: Trauma, Reconstruction, Planning, and Design

This Dialogue Series focuses on conversations among scholars, community members, and students reflecting on the relationship between violence and built environment disciplines and practices (architecture, urban design, planning, historic preservation, real estate, and related fields) and opportunities for peacebuilding. 

The Series is hosted by the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (MAPP) in the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters. This is a MAPP offering in the context of our JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) initiatives. 

Panelists:

Ming Hu
Professor of Architecture
University of Notre Dame;
Kieth Bowers Baltimore

Professor Santina Contreras
Associate Professor of Urban Planning & Spatial Analysis
USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles

Professor Jesse Keenan
Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning
Director, Center on Climate Change and Urbanism, School of Architecture, Tulane University

Eric Burnstein, PhD Student in the Urban and Regional Planning and Design Program
University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation 

Moderator:

Marccus Hendricks
Associate Professor of Urban Studies & Planning
University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation - Urban Studies & Planning Program

 Interdisciplinary Dialogue Series Youtube Recording:

**Dialogue 3/4:Climate Change and Disasters: Trauma, Reconstruction, Planning, and Design?** This Dialogue Series focuses on conversations among scholars, community members and students reflecting on the relationship between violence and built environment disciplines and practices and opportunities for peacebuilding. 

Climate Change and Disasters: Trauma, Reconstruction, Planning, and Design The rapid pace of climate change has surprised even climate scientists. The intensity and frequency of disasters that it causes or intensifies (heat waves, hurricanes, floods, droughts, rise of sea levels, wildfires, etc.) affect many human settlements and transform where and how communities can be reconstructed. Architecture, historic preservation, urban planning, real estate development and related disciplines must respond to these processes. But more than being merely reactive, our disciplines can pioneer innovation and provide leadership for the needs for climate change adaptation and mitigation in our communities worldwide, and they can do so in a trauma-informed manner. Where and how are they doing so? What else do they need to be doing? How can the next generation of design and planning professionals best prepare themselves for the new world in which they will practice? What should educators do for them?
 

Dialogue Series Schedule:

• October 29, 2024, 6 - 8:30 p.m.  |  Dialogue 1/4: Social Polarization Can the Spatial Disciplines Bring Us Closer Together?
• November 26, 2024, 6:30 - 8 p.m.  |  Dialogue 2/4: Wars and Peacebuilding: What Can the Spatial Disciplines Do?
• March 13, 2025, 1 - 2:30 p.m.  |  Dialogue 3/4: Climate Change and Disasters
• April 16, 2025, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  |  Dialogue 4/4: Disrupting Slow Violence: Untapping the Healing Power of the Spatial Disciplines