Announcement: ArcDR3 Exhibition and Symposium

April 08, 2022 @ 5:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)

Visit:
https://regenerativeurbanism.org/

Watch Symposium Live:
Watch/Participate Live on YouTube Big Table (in Japanese)
Watch/Participate Live on YouTube Big Table (in English)
Watch/Participate Live on YouTube Small Table (in English)

Regenerative Urbanism

The exhibition and symposium discuss the topic of “Regenerative Urbanism”, an anticipatory and combinatory approach to urban design that demonstrates the possibility of symbioses between humans and the natural and constructed worlds courageously embracing inevitable disaster cycles. Regenerative Urbanism is an updated paradigm of resilience in urban design. Prompted by a rapid increase of nature-instigated disasters and climate change, this paradigm asks us to consider a different approach to urban resilience. Instead of pre-disaster defensive-oriented maintenance combined with a post-disaster rescue and restoration-oriented approach, Regenerative Urbanism asks us to imagine a near future that embraces and incorporates the effects of disaster through innovative and safer urban design strategies that improve environments during normal conditions and reduce the severity of disaster risk during the inevitable disaster event. To this end, regenerative urban design strategies are conceived as mitigation-oriented and anticipatory with ideas of adaptability, flexibility, mutation, and symbiosis embedded in their methods and techniques to ensure the unfolding of a more robust, balanced, and equitable society.

Exhibition – Living With Disaster: Stories from Seven Regenerative Cities

The exhibition presents a powerful and optimistic array of innovative urban designs focused on withstanding natural- and human-instigated disasters while simultaneously responding to the multiple hazards of climate change. Importantly, the proposals are not reactionary or defensive planning strategies; rather, they courageously embrace inevitable disaster cycles through anticipatory techniques, and they demonstrate the possibility of new symbioses between humans and the natural and constructed worlds. In doing so, each proposal forms a part of a globally scaled mosaic of Regenerative Urbanism, framing renewed possibilities for ecological and sociological ethics to ensure that we not only survive, but thrive both with and despite threats of disaster.

Symposium – New Visions for Regenerative Urbanism

The symposium will be hosted, in celebration with the exhibition, as the 4th ArcDR3 Forum. Architects, researchers, and experts in various fields from the eleven participating universities will discuss the concepts behind the studios which are the foundation for the seven explorations of future risk-resilient cities (displayed in the seven wells of the exhibition). The symposium is composed of a “Big Table” and a “Small Table”, whose non-hierarchical configuration seeks to flatten the relationship between speakers and audience, and creates an environment that encourages discussion.