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PROGRAMME & PRESENTATIONS

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Session 1:
 
Resilient Cities
 

Opening Speech- Dr. Jerry Velasquez, UNISDR

Session Chair: Dr. Haim Yacobi

 

Participants:

Prof. Jon Coaffee, Arch. Jonathan Clarke (Warwick University, UK) - Design weaknesses and the quest for urban resilience

 

Dr. Lee Bosher, Dr. Ksenia Chmutina (Loughborough University)- The role of urban design and planning in risk reduction: who should do what and when?

 

Prof. Noam Shoval, Prof. Daniel Felsenstien (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Sensometer App, Dynamic Simulation Tool of Urban Disasters (Dysturbd)

 

Dr. Yona Weitz and Mr. Elad Persov (Bezalel) - Presentation of Jerusalem Marathon Pilot

 

Discussion

 

 

 

9.00

11.00

11:30

13:00

Monday, May 12th 2014
 
Training Session:
Planning
  • RISK-AT
  • DySTUrb
  • Urban Resilient Design Guidelines
  • CityTalk
 
Security products and apps:
  • CityZen
  • HopeSpot
  • Sensometer
 
Session 2: 
Designing Safer Urban Spaces in Historic Cities

 

Opening Speech- Prof. Rohit Jigyasu-

Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Conservation: Challenges and Opportunities

 

Session Chair: Dr. Lee Bosher

 

Participants:

Prof. Claudio Modena (University of Padova) - Assessment and mitigation plans of seismic risk of historic cities

Eng. Yaacov Schaffer (ICORP)- “Out of Order and Consensus” Preparing for Natural Disasters

 

 

 

14:00

16:00

Closing remarks
Prof. Michael Turner (Bezalel Academy of Art and Design)

 

18:00

 

Public lecture at the Bezalel Architecture department:
Resilient design: adaptive or maladaptive?

Prof. Jon Coaffee, Arch. Jonathan Clarke (Warwick University, UK)

 

 

* Please note that the location of the lecture is at the Shmuel Hanagid Architecture Building

 

 

* Program is tentative and subject to changes

  Attendence is by registration only.

 

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