Browsing by Author "Martins, A. Nuno"
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- Risk and resilience in practice: vulnerabilities, displaced people, local communities and heritages: guest editorialPublication . Martins, A. Nuno; Mendes, José Manuel; Santos, Pedro PintoThe global assessment report published in 2019, evaluating the lessons from the implementation of the Sendai Report (UNDRR, 2019), directly challenge existing risk assessment approaches to deal with complexity and incorporate surprise as the new normal. The new approaches to risk assessment must also give us tools to tackle and implement the objectives and goals set in the international risk governance instruments, as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the New Urban Agenda (NUA). The world faces the emergence of a new climatic regime connected to the increased possibility of natural and human-made hazards, extreme events and massive people displacements. In this new Anthropocene era (Blok and Jensen, 2019), research and analytic approaches must be multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar, incorporating communities and affected population in truly participatory and changing processes. This special issue results from a first selection of papers presented in the 8th International Conference on Building Resilience that took place in Lisbon on November 2018, under the general theme Risk and Resilience in practice: Vulnerabilities, Displaced People, Local Communities and Heritages.
- Women-led humanitarian architecture in disaster-prone environments: learning from the Marielle Franco Community-Design AwardPublication . Martins, A. Nuno; Hobeica, Liliane; Hobeica, AdibThis paper focuses on humanitarian-architecture practices in hazard-prone environments. It highlights women’s role in slum-upgrading, aided-self-help, incremental-housing and disaster-risk-reduction processes. We present the experiences of the seven shortlisted nominees to the first edition of the Marielle Franco Community-Design Award, which sought to acknowledge the long-lasting activities of professionals working within vulnerable communities. Although the award did not have a gender focus, all the shortlisted nominees were eventually either women architects or women-led architecture offices, mostly engaged with local NGOs assisting dwellers of fragile settlements while building their capacities. We sought to explore the distinctive features of their practices and how these contribute to improve communities’ living conditions. Our research relied on a literature review and the comparative analysis of the profile, practice and achievements of the shortlisted nominees. Our study shows that the processes set forth by these professionals are as important as their architectural results. Furthermore, the outcomes of their work extrapolate the physical dimension to embrace long-term social impacts. By following an empathic and immersive approach in their relationship with the concerned people (in particular women), these female architects could plan, design and build in a truly collaborative mode.