March 13th, 2021
6:00pm - 8:00pm (EST) Virtual Event
Meeting ID: 868 2619 3650
Passcode: 3112011
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It has been 10 years since the great earthquake caused tsunami and Fukushima's nuclear crisis.
This event will be a response to the “Global PechaKucha Night- Inspire Japan” event in 2011 and "IPPO X 365" events that archiPicnic successfully organized in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
What has happened since then? Where are we now? In the tenth year of ongoing Japan's recovery, how have designers, architects and local governments been able to address the massive damage in the cities, villages and buildings? Each day has been a step towards recovery and rebuilding -- what were these 365x10 steps like in Japan? What can New Yorkers learn from them?
Join the dialogue!
Speakers:
Illya Azaroff, FAIA + LAB Architect, Professor in Practice NYCCT CUNY
Jake Price, Filmmaker / Photographer
Kanako Iuchi, PhD, Tohoku University, International Research Institute for Disaster Science (IRIDeS)
Shun Kanda, Architect/Educator, Director, MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative 2011-2014
Moderator:
Yutaka Takiura, AIA, Pratt Institute
RSVP: archiPicnic@gmail.com
Speakers Bio:
Illya Azaroff, FAIA is an Associate professor at New York City College of Technology (CUNY) and the founding principal of +LAB architect PLLC, whose founding mission is to build resilient capacity and advance goals for a sustainable, regenerative future while giving underserved communities greater visibility. He is an internationally recognized leader in disaster mitigation, adaption, and resilient strategies. Currently, he is part of Resilient 21, a coalition advising the Biden-Harris white-house on strategies for the first 100 days of office. He recently worked as part of the Resilient Housing Task force under the auspice of HUD to create new federal guidance on raising building standards and has contributed to the 2019 Hazard Mitigation Plans for U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City. He regularly works with the city, state and federal agencies, professional societies, not-for-profits, community groups and foreign governments on building resilient capacity. His office is advancing culturally significant community resilience hubs and regenerative cluster housing developments in several communities across the world. He is a founding co-chair of AIA Design for Risk and Reconstruction and is pleased to be serving as the 2021 AIA New York State president. Prior to coming to New York he worked in Germany, Italy and Holland. He has worked in the field for over 25 years.
MIT Dept of Architecture (retired)
Director, MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative 2011-2014
Active in both practice and research, Kanako Iuchi, PhD has worked in the field of international development planning and disaster risk management for more than 20 years, specializing in disaster management planning, urban and regional planning, and community development. Currently at the International Research Center for Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, she focuses on disaster research and advocating better rebuilding after disasters. Prior to joining IRIDeS she worked as an Urban Specialist at the World Bank. She has also worked as an international development planner and researcher with bi- and multi-lateral organizations; national, regional, and local governments; and communities in more than ten countries across East and South Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe. Her recent work has primarily centered on planning and researching post-disaster rebuilding after large-scale disasters in urban and coastal areas, including Aceh, Yogyakarta and Palu, Indonesia, Tohoku, Japan, New York City, USA, Tacloban, Philippines, and Kathmandu, Nepal. She holds a BS from Tsukuba University, an MRP from Cornell University, and a PhD from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in urban and regional planning.
Jake’s films and immersive media have been funded by POV and were official selections at the New York Film Festival’s Convergence festival. His work appears in The New York Times, TIME, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Orion Magazine, Newsweek, Le Monde II and others throughout the world. Jake is an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia Universities’ Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Jake holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston and teaches Visual Narratives at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
Yutaka Takiura, AIA, is a principal at the Manhattan based design firm AD+A, an Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute, and a Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology. He is also a member of Knowledge Committee of AIA National and a former Board of Directors at Architecture for Humanity.
