“Designing with Disaster”は、2022年に東京で開催された“Living with Disaster”展の第2弾です。“Designing with Disaster”展は、そのコンテンツをロサンゼルスに持ち込み、新たな文脈で展示し、イベントやシンポジウムを開催しました。“Designing with Disaster”展では、「リジェネレティブ・アーバニズム」というコンセプトを紹介しています。これは、人間と自然界・建築界との共生の楽観的な可能性を探り、避けられない災害を受け入れ、災害に強い環境を創造する、都市デザインへの先見的なアプローチです。
2011年の東日本大震災を受け、震源地に最も近い宮城県仙台市で国連防災世界会議が開催され、世界中で新たな災害リスクを予防し、既存の災害リスクを軽減するための行動目標と優先事項を示す「仙台防災枠組2015-2030」が提示されました。この枠組みに基づき、UCLA xLAB（カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校）と東北大学のIRIDeS（災害科学国際研究所）は、環太平洋の11大学と共同で、ArcDR3（Architecture and Urban Design for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience）と名付けられた新たな取り組みを行いました。各大学の研究と連携したデザインスタジオが、災害への対応や災害に強い新しい環境づくりの方法を模索しました。この展覧会では、その探求からインスピレーションを得た「7つの再生都市」のエキサイティングな提案を紹介します。
Designing with Disaster is the second iteration of the Living with Disaster exhibition, which took place in Tokyo in 2022. Designing with Disaster brings the content to Los Angeles to be displayed in a new context and is accompanied by events and symposia.
The exhibition Designing with Disaster introduces the concept of “Regenerative Urbanism” – an anticipatory approach to urban design that explores the optimistic possibility of symbioses between humans and the natural and constructed worlds, embracing inevitable disasters and creating disaster-resilient environments.
In response to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, the closest major city to the earthquake’s epicenter in the Tohoku region. This conference drafted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 which outlined targets and priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks worldwide. Based on the Sendai Framework, UCLA xLAB (University of California, Los Angeles) and Tohoku University’s IRIDeS (International Research Institute of Disaster Science) collaborated with 11 Pacific Rim universities on a new initiative named ArcDR3 (Architecture and Urban Design for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience). Design studios linked to research at each university have been exploring ways to respond to disasters and build new disaster-resilient environments around the world. This exhibition presents exciting proposals for Seven Regenerative Cities inspired by that exploration.
Presented by
JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles
Organizers
xLAB, University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]
International Research Institute of Disaster Science [IRIDeS], Tohoku University
ArcDR3 Exhibition Executive Committee
Cooperation
Association of Pacific Rim Universities [APRU]
UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
UCLA International Institute
ArcDR3 Initiative
National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)
National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile)
The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
The University of Melbourne (Australia)
The University of Tokyo (Japan)
Tohoku University (Japan)
Tsinghua University (China)
University of California Berkeley [UC Berkeley] (US)
University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] (US)
University of Washington (US)
Supporting Sponsor
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Executive Producer and Concept Design
Hitoshi Abe / Professor at UCLA, Director of UCLA xLAB
Producer
Shinobu Nakanishi / IDEAL COOP Inc.
Curator Team
Mohamed Sharif / Associate Professor at UCLA
Carlo Sturken / Curator, UCLA xLAB
Yelena Pozdnyakova / Assistant Scenario Director
Tohru Horiguchi / Associate Professor at Kindai University, Faculty of Architecture
Akihiro Shibayama / Associate Professor at IRIDeS (Tohoku University)
Masashige Motoe / Associate Professor at Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering Department
Elizabeth Maly / Associate Professor at IRIDeS (Tohoku University)
Mao Imaizumi / Does Inc.
YoungJa Park / Office PARK Inc.
Exhibition Design
Hitoshi Abe, Josh Nelson / ATELIER HITOSHI ABE
Carlo Sturken / UCLA xLAB
Project Supervisor / Archival Materials
Fumihiko Imamura / Director and Professor at IRIDeS (Tohoku University)
Project Cooperation
Toshikazu Ishida / Professor at Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering Department
Yasuaki Onoda / Professor at Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering Department
Osamu Murao / Professor at IRIDeS (Tohoku University)
Exhibition Scenario Director
Takenori Miyamoto / Curator
Production Director
Yoshikazu Inui / BOCTOK Inc.
Hitoshi Takahashi / CROSSCO Co., Ltd.
Creative Director
ujidesign
Video Director [Wall]
Satoru Higa / BACKSPACE Production Inc.
Video Director [Cloud＋Well]
Akio Okamoto / Ney-Anton G.K.
Technical Director
Hiroshi Kanechiku
Installation
HIGURE 17-15 cas Co., Ltd.
Narration
Elizabeth Ficocelli
Music
Hakobune
Research Cooperation
Yoshibumi Yanai / Assistant professor at Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering Department
Earth Data Cooperation
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan)
Special Thanks
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Photography
c JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles