shelter after disaster
Shelter after disaster
Responding to emergencies with solid design ideas from Oxford Brookes University By Jade Tilley
Shelter after Disaster is a university course created to look at theory and best practice in providing shelter for people in the event of a crisis. Lord Ashdown recently voiced his opinions on adopting a new approach to humanitarian disasters and now Oxford Brookes University have shaped a course to meet these modern world needs.
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Michelle Young is an architect and a student on the pilot Shelter after Disaster course at Oxford Brookes University.
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his new 12-week postgraduate certificate (PGCert) is equivalent to one third of a Masters degree, has its first intake in January
2012 and is designed for those involved in emergency response around the world, to look at theory and best practice in providing shelter for people in the event of a crisis. CENDEP is currently running a successful course module in Shelter After Disaster, which is the pilot for the PGCert.
Michele Young is an Architect and student on the pilot Shelter After Disaster module.
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What inspired you to take up this course?
I wanted to have a break from commercial architecture but also engage myself in a challenge. I needed to discover whether there were other ways that an architect’s skills could be used usefully in another sector. The course was recommended to me by a former university friend, who has successfully managed a career in the humanitarian sector, having started as an architect. However, the SAD or indeed the CENDEP course is not specifically aimed at architects, which also had an influence on my choice.
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Do you think that currently, architects do enough to protect from disaster?
Generally where architects or built environment professionals are employed, the hazards encountered within the locality of the project are encompassed within their designs. When buildings are built without the expertise of architects,
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