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

Saturday 11 January 2020

Water Resilience in Historic Cities

As part of the BReUCom project, based on the theme of Urban Resilience, students of Sem II of the Masters program at KRVIA presented their work on Water Resilience in Historic Cities.


Three Historic Indian cities were chosen for the study: Jodhpur, Jabalpur and Bhopal. The students investigated the nature of engagement with water historically, the changes in the relationship of the state and the citizenry with this valued resource, evolutionary changes to water systems and society, etc.



An evaluation of the current state of water resources was also performed. The presentation presented an opportunity to appreciate the sophistication and complexity involved in the management of ecological resources historically in Indian cities, and provided a perspective on how such resources have fallen into dismay due to societal and systemic apathy.



The presentation was hosted in the KRVIA Auditorium on 8th January, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. The three presentations are linked below:

 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19h9NJZa_EiVOl7eeZAuALXneSml8GRHNQtWfDI_Rt34/edit?usp=sharing


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