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SUMMARY:Continuity and change in housing and settlement patterns following
  a disaster 
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DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Duyne Barenstein\, PhD\nWorld Habitat Research Centre
 \, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland\nContinuity and 
 change in housing and settlement patterns following a disaster\nThe case o
 f post-earthquake Gujarat\, IndiaJennifer Duyne Barenstein\, PhD\nWorld Ha
 bitat Research Centre\, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzer
 landwww.worldhabitat.supsi.ch\nEPFL\, Lausanne 29 November 2013\nIn the af
 termath of a disaster building processes are often taken over by external 
 agencies whose approach towards reconstruction is governed by consideratio
 ns such as safety\, efficiency\, cost-effectiveness\, and –¬in some cas
 es– also by an explicit will to trigger social transformations. As a res
 ult reconstruction often entails dramatic changes in settlement location a
 nd morphologies\, housing designs\, building materials and construction pr
 ocesses. Based on an on-going research project focusing on communities’ 
 patterns of adaptation to post-disaster relocated settlements in India the
  lecture will focus on people’s strategies to re-gain control over the s
 ocio-spatial organization of their villages and to transform their agency-
 built houses in culturally meaningful places. Pictures\, maps and drawings
  will show that people are not passive recipients of external agencies’ 
 often culturally insensitive project and that they have the capacity to tr
 ansform externally imposed notions of appropriate housing to meet their cu
 lturally- and livelihood-specific needs. Based on a micro-level case study
  of a village in Gujarat it will be argued that underestimating communitie
 s’ capacity to rebuild their own houses and villages and the failure to 
 recognise the inherent functionality of local housing and building culture
  often entails not only missing the opportunity to enhance their resilienc
 e but in some cases may even lead to increasing their vulnerability.
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