For Mexico, a permanent challenge to vulnerability.
FROM the School of Architecture, Arts and Design, resilience concepts. A vision of several scales: The individual, the community and the city.
Conference by Patricia Torres Sánchez.
http://sitios.itesm.mx/vi/img/imgApru/programMH19.pdf
Resilience promotes a sustainable culture of prevention and preservation of resources, which allows building a community to mitigate local risks and develop individual and collective resilience. Our vision, from the Architecture, Art and Design School, also called "EAAD" focuses on linking strategies, projects and dynamics in a multidisciplinary collaboration with diverse national and local foreign actors.
Throughout this process, we connect teachers and students with the challenges of the growing development of cities and rural communities. We also join efforts against high-risk events to prevent, understand, contain and face emergencies and permanent crises.
From the perspective of understanding the interaction of "people and their environment", we create action protocols, collaboration strategies and simultaneous recovery actions. In fact, the permanent analysis of the lessons learned, indicates the means for the continuous improvement of our actions.
Resilience, in front of diverse scales, adds versatile and agile multidisciplinary work teams, with its own approaches and levels of incidence. With different participation models, students, teachers and researchers at the EAAD analyzes the complexity of each crisis and the transforming effect of resilience. Our experience has shown a diversity of impact paths.
The performance of the "City Laboratory", a collaboration model of the University, Government, and Community, works in the state of Jalisco mapping the urban profile of resilience in the City of Guadalajara, and in the rural communities of the state of Chiapas through the network of indigenous midwives, a centennial tradition, and the role of women in the recovery and social transformation of the community.
"Architecture and Urban Resilience", a participatory model which works a profile of resilience, the diagnosis of people and the transformation of their communities.
In the same way, AUR Architecture and Urban Resilience is a research group of the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the Tecnológico de Monterrey in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the CENAPRED National Center for Disaster Prevention, which aims to risk mitigation and building resilience through the culture of prevention, with the application of the +1. +7 +30 -365 methodology INNOVATIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXPERIENCE and the innovation approach focused on people. This methodology focuses on the concept from the resolution to the negative impact of natural phenomena with an approach that puts at the center the experience of the person and the impact of their actions in the community. In the same way, this methodology recognizes women as a key leadership element in the construction of resilient communities.
Therefore, this has generated diverse experiences where students and teachers learn through real life challenges by interactive and multidisciplinary activities in groups of students of different generations, campuses and careers in Mexico or abroad.
With the implementation of the +1. +7 +30 -365 methodology in various activities, the iNTERACTIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXPERIENCE focuses on raising awareness and analyzing issues related to resilience in the face of the negative impact of natural phenomena. All this happened after the 30th Anniversary of the National Civil Protection System, which brought workshops, conference cycles, weeks i, semester i and diplomas; as well as institutional participation in the Workshop on Building Disaster Resistant Universities, Sendai 2018, APRU Campus Safety Workshop 2018 and the International Fellow Action Research, Coady International Institute ignites leadership, Coady Women's Leadership Fellowship 2017, Action Research "barter" house of midwives' s evolution.
In this context and to increase research that transforms lives, "Barter" emerges as a center of reflection and support for the development of action research with a social focus on the solution of community problems.
The research documents the "Barter" process between the academic community and the community of "midwives" in the municipality of Tenejapa in Chiapas, Mexico. This research also describes the exchange of knowledge, experiences, benefits and achievements; knowing their differences and emphasizing their coincidences.
The research establishes each of the phases of the collaborative process of approximation, work, development and monitoring towards the creation of a social enterprise; identifying the needs and external support needed to improve the results and the direct benefits for both communities.
From the context of previous understanding (cultural, natural, economic, political), the action resulting from this cooperation is a participatory project and an evolutionary architectural design for "Houses for the indigenous midwives of Chiapas". In this project, during the first year, 10 plans will be developed. and two prototypes built 1: 1. The final objective will be the design of 25 plans and the construction of six evolutionary prototypes that integrate fundamental aspects such as local biomimicry and risk mitigation strategies due to natural phenomena to create a resilient community. Further. responding to the effects that climate change could generate for this community in collaboration with CENAPRED.
In the medium term and thanks to the important growing participation of the students and professors of the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Chiapas Experience i challenges, the construction of 64 houses in support of the 64 midwives of the different indigenous communities of the region has been planned. Municipality of Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico.
The research will use qualitative and quantitative approaches. Qualitative approaches will ensure that all interested parties participate in the co-creation process.
Emphasizing that in the first project, carried out this year, the linking activity was given with the purpose of providing a work space for midwives. This research proposes that in a period of one year, the midwives in co-creation with the academic community design their own attention space.
Finally, at the School of Architecture, Art and Design (EAAD) we are very proud of the great impact we have had on our students, teachers and communities. Through these projects and activities we have achieved the conformation of a SAFE Campus.
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Octubre 30, 2019
