Increased frequency of natural hazards and sea level rise are expected impacts of climate change in India. Marginalised urban settlements are often vulnerable to disaster due to their location in hazardous areas and the use of non-durable building materials.Their inhabitants are therefore strongly affected by climate change. But amidst strives to meet climate targets, the poor's needs are mostly overlooked.

In this context, there is an urgent need for paradigmatic shift in the education of graduate students in spatial planning and design as well as training of urban professionals from different backgrounds in order to confront upcoming challenges related to climate change impacts on urban informal settlements.

The BReUCom project intents to conceive and pilot 20 short terms post-graduate Professional Development Programs (PDPs) targeted at real world problems. It aims to produce Open Educational Resources by developing 10 comparative case studies and 10 descriptions of new courses for graduate students in existing programs, following MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) model. It shall pilot new courses on urban resilience in existing curricula for graduate students.

The Professional Development Programs (PDPs) are designed to function as modules on urban resilience for urban professionals from different backgrounds and working experiences, pilot modules including internships with NGOs in India and Europe.

For more information: https://www.breucom.eu

Friday, 27 December 2019

Public Review of student work on Vasai-Virar




Exhibition Posters: Vikaasachi Paryayi Kalpana (Alternate Imagination of Development), to be held at Yuvak Vaachnaalaya, Bhuigaon, Vasai.

The Masters Studios at KRVIA (Sem 1 and Sem 3) pursued the agenda of Urban Resilience under the BReUCom project. The students' work resulting from the studio exercise was exhibited at KRVIA during the 3rd BReUCom Symposium. 

In continuation of the same, a Public Meeting to review and discuss the students' work on Vasai-Virar will be held on Saturday, 28th Dec 2019. The meeting aims at bringing together various stakeholders from the community as well as professionals from architecture, planning and related fields. 

The work will be subsequently exhibited from 29th Dec to 30th Dec 2019, at the Yuvak Vaachnaalaya, Bhuigaon, Vasai. The exhibition will be open from 9.00 AM to 5.00 PM. 




Exhibition Agenda: Vikaasachi Paryayi Kalpana (Alternate Imagination of Development), to be held at Yuvak Vaachnaalaya, Bhuigaon, Vasai.
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