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

Wednesday 8 January 2020

Presentation on "Water Resilience in Historic Cities" at KRVIA Encounters

Poster for KRVIA Encounters, 8th Jan 2020. 
As part of the KRVIA lecture series, Encounters, M.Arch Semester - III students will be presenting their work on "Water Resilience in Historic cities",based on the BReUCom Resilience Program, running in the Masters Department of KRVIA. 

The event shall be hosted in the KRVIA Auditorium on 8th January, 2020 at 11:30 a.m
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