We bring you stories of people working on making the lives better of those affected by humanitarian crises and natural disasters. Images and stories of disasters and humanitarian crises are depressing, and they often leave us with a discomforting sense of helplessness. The personal stories that you will hear here will make you view disasters and crises from a lens of solutions. I hope you find inspiration and build your resilience from these stories. Happy Listening!
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We bring you stories of people working on making the lives better of those affected by humanitarian crises and natural disasters. Images and stories of disasters and humanitarian crises are depressing, and they often leave us with a discomforting sense of helplessness. The personal stories that you will hear here will make you view disasters and crises from a lens of solutions. I hope you find inspiration and build your resilience from these stories. Happy Listening!
Udit Mittal: Co-creating resilient structures in the Sunderbans
Dignity in Disasters
40 minutes 7 seconds
3 years ago
Udit Mittal: Co-creating resilient structures in the Sunderbans
Udit Mittal (B.Arch, SPA Delhi 2015, Diploma in Fine Arts) is the Principal Architect of QX Design and guest faculty at NIFT Bhubaneswar. He is committed to explore material sensitive construction methods to design emotional and social spaces. His projects focus on experimentations with bamboo, ferrocement, debri wall, mud lime etc. largely in rural context involving community participation in the design process. In this episode we speak at length about his experience of building multi-hazard resilient structures in the Sunderbans after super cyclone Amphan and exploring new building techniques with the people. Udit and team learnt how to introduce a set of innovative practices which would fit in with traditional knowledge in the community. In Udit’s words, “We gave them new words which they can use in their current language.”
I hope you feel inspired by the work that Udit’s team pulled off and the impact this co-created project has started creating in the community.
I can’t wait to visit the project at Purba Sridharpur, Sunderbans and I am sure you would also feel the same after listening to Udit. More about the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXAYO-Pe8FA&t=680s
Dignity in Disasters
We bring you stories of people working on making the lives better of those affected by humanitarian crises and natural disasters. Images and stories of disasters and humanitarian crises are depressing, and they often leave us with a discomforting sense of helplessness. The personal stories that you will hear here will make you view disasters and crises from a lens of solutions. I hope you find inspiration and build your resilience from these stories. Happy Listening!
