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ABOUT ARCDR3 INITIATIVE

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The history of humanity reflects a myriad of examples ofsurvival in the face of natural and man-made disasters.
Over many years scientists, engineers and scholars ofsuch events have accumulated much knowledge tohelp elucidate disaster related phenomena, structures,and systems. However, there are limited scenarios
in which experts find the opportunity to apply thisknowledge at a large scale in the field of reconstruction
or construction that anticipates future events. To bridge
such gaps the xLAB at UCLA Architecture and Urban
Design, in partnership with IRIDeS at Tohoku University
in Japan, and Miraikan - The National Museum of
Emerging Science and Innovation in Japan, haveestablished the ArcDR3 Initiative as a part of the APRU
Multi-Hazards Program.

knowledge on environmental design that reduces therisk of recurring disasters and enhances resilience,
ArcDR3 aims to create a more effective integration oftheory / research and practice/ design.

ArcDR3 (Architecture and Urban Design for Disaster
Risk Reduction and Resilience) is a global initiativethat has invited 11 major universities from regionswith recurring risks of natural disasters to participate
by engaging in a collaborative research studio that
pursues new strategies for risk-resilient environments
across the Pacific Rim. By establishing an international
platform for the production and exchange ofAs a platform, the joint initiative draws from aninternational network of professional and educational
partners. To this end, the experimental educational
project will share, store and utilize ideas created andimplemented by participating universities under theumbrella of ArcDR3 Grand Syllabus to be adopted
and modified by each participating institution in its
local context.

Participating Universities include UC Berkeley (USA),
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Universityof Melbourne (Australia), National Cheng Kung
University (Taiwan), National University of Singapore(Singapore), Pontifical Catholic University ofChile (Chile), University of Tokyo (Japan), Tohoku
University (Japan), Tsinghua University (China),
University of Washington (USA) and UCLA (USA).

ABOUT THE FORUM

ArcDR³ Forum Vol.1:

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Urbanism” will be held on Friday, June 26, and is
the first event in the series of research, symposia,
and exhibitions planned by the ArcDR3 initiative. The
event will be livestreamed via UCLA Architecture and
Urban Design’s YouTube page starting at 4 PM PST /8 AM JST, Saturday, June 27
Under the umbrella of the “Grand Syllabus,” the 11
participating universities will present their syllabi
for their context-specific design studios in theupcoming 2020-2021 academic year. Discussions
will be divided into three panels: #1: Earth, Windand Fire, #2: Water, and #3: Multi-hazard. The event
will be organized around two key objectives:> To address the projected theme of “Regenerative
Urbanism” and its implications for the design studios
at each of the participating universities. The increased
intensity of global risk establishes an urgency todefine new strategies for designing buildings,
cities and environments. Regenerative Urbanism isenvisioned to address the unprecedented changes
through an adaptive systems approach with thefocus on regenerative and evolutionary designand development strategies for ecologically,sociologically and technologically resilient cities. It
expands the notion of resilience and implements
an alternative complex form of adaptability, where
resilient design responds and adapts to change,
whether a sudden shock or a long-term trend though
the establishment of ERS (Evolutionary Regenerative
System). One of the objective of ArcDR3 Initiative isto develop this conceptual approach together andsets a foundation for the development of alternative
sustainable regenerative design models for the
future and enables urban designers to prepare for thecomplexities of the changing urban environment.
> To recognize the changes in learning environments
and teaching processes that have been redefinedby the global crisis, and explore opportunities
for participants to expand their research skills bycollaborating on a global scale through the ArcDR3
network. Culminating studio projects will be
discussed in upcoming conferences, displayed in
exhibitions, and compiled into a publication for
public distribution.

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IRIDeS, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
xLAB, UCLAPANEL 1: EARTH, WIND AND FIRE
UCLA, UC BERKELEY,

UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO,
TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYPANEL 2: WATER
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF
MELBOURNE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
OF SINGAPORE, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

PANEL 3: MULTI-HAZARD
PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF CHILE,NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY, NATIONALUNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

SUMMARY, NEXT STEPS AND END WORDS
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Beijing,Hong Kong,
Singapore,
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About ArcDR3
Initiative andintroduction of
the participants

Hitoshi Abe(xLAB, UCLA),
Fumihiko
Imamura(IRIDeS, Tohoku
University)

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4:00 PM

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About theSymposium

MohamedSharif (UCLA),
Forum Host

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7:15 AMEVENTSECTIONINTRODUCTIONPANEL 1: EARTH, WIND AND FIRE
Moderator: Jeffrey Inaba (UCLA)
Introduction
to the Panel

Jeffrey Inaba,
Associate
Adjunct
Professor,(UCLA)

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4:20 PM

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Presentation 2

Ronald Rael,
Professor(UC Berkeley)

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4:30 PM

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Presentation 3

Toshio Otsuki,
Professor andTakuya Hagiwara,
Associate
Professor(University ofTokyo)

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Deyin Luo,
Associate
Professor(Tsinghua
University)

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Summary

Jeffrey Inaba,
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Associate
Adjunct
Professor, (UCLA)

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Q&A
SessionMohamedSharif (UCLA),
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PANEL 2: WATER
Moderator: Daniel B. Abramson (University of Washington)
Intro
Presentation 1

Daniel B.
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David Mah,
Senior Lecturer
and Leire
Asensio-Villoria,
Senior Lecturer,(University of
Melbourne)

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5:40 PM

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Presentation 3

Tsuto Sakamoto,

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Associate
Professor,(National
University ofSingapore )Presentation 4

Wang Weijen,
Professor(University ofHong Kong)

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Summary

Daniel B.
Abramson,
Adjunct
Associate
Professor(University ofWashington)

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Q&A
SessionMohamedSharif (UCLA),
Forum Host

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Moderators: Renato D’Alencon and Roberto Moris (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
RenatoD`Alencon,
Professor,
Roberto Moris,
Professor(PontificalCatholic
University ofChile)

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Cheng-Luen
Hsueh, Associate
Professor(National Cheng
Kung University)

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Shinya Okuda,
Associate
Professor(National
University ofSingapore)

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Toshikazu
Ishida, Professor,
Graduate Schoolof Engineering,(Tohoku
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Renato D’Alencon, Professor,
and Roberto
Moris, Professor(Pontifical Catholic University ofChile)

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Q&A
SessionMohamedSharif (UCLA),
Forum Host

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10:25 PMNEXT STEPS AND CLOSING REMARKS
Next Steps

Mohamed Sharif,
Assistant Adjunct
Professor (UCLA)

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10:40 AMA Word from
MiraikanSinovuNakanishi
Executive Director(Miraikan)

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Closing
Remarks

Toshiya Ueki ,11:50 AM
Professor, Executive
Vice President,
Noriko Osumi,
Professor, Vice
President for Public
Relations andPromotion of Diversity(Tohoku University)

7:50 PM

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FarewellHitoshi Abe (xLAB, 11:55 AM
UCLA), Fumihiko
Imamura (IRIDeS,
Tohoku University)

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11:00 AMEnd Symposium

12:00 PMONLINE FORMATArcDR3 Forum Vol.1: NEW AGENDAS FOR REGENERATIVE URBANISM employs an online format for the event. In
light of global pandemic crisis, ArcDR3 Initiative takes the opportunity to redefine the traditional conference
format by bringing in international participants within an online event, facilitated on several platforms.
The discussion will be accommodated on ZOOM and will be livestreamed to Youtube platform.

GUESTS/ VIEWERS
All the guests are invited to join the event on Youtube. The
event will be streamed live on the Youtube channel of the
Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA.
Please find the link below:
EVENT LIVESTREAM LINK
We are inviting viewers to join the discussion via Youtube
chat on June 26 PDT/ June 27 JST.

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Assistant Adjunct Professor , Dept. ofArchitecture and Urban Design, UCLA

Associate Adjunct Professor, Dept. ofArchitecture and Urban Design, UCLA

Professor,
Chair, Dept. of Architecture, UC Berkeley

An Assistant Adjunct Professor in the UCLA
Department of Architecture and Urban Design,
Mohamed has served on faculty since 2011
and was the director of the Summer Programsfrom 2017 through 2019. He teaches in bothundergraduate and graduate design andcomprehensive integrative design studios. In
advanced graduate design topic studios, his
focus has been on novel and ancient passive
and active cooling construction technologies
and their aesthetic and formal effects. As an
active critic, Mohamed’s essays and reviews
have appeared in journals and periodicals,
including 306090, arq, Constructs, JAE, andLog. A recent essay on the work of artist Soo
Kim’s work features in a catalog for a 2018
exhibition at the Getty Center. He served on theeditorial board of arq (Cambridge University
Press) from 2006 to 2016; and on the advisoryboard of the Los Angeles Forum for Architectureand Urban Design from 2004 to 2009, where
he was also President from 2007 to 2009. With
over twenty years of experience, Mohamed
has completed projects in many sectors withboth his practice Sharif, Lynch: Architecture,and previously with award-winning firms,
including Koning Eizenberg Architecture andmOrphosis.

Jeffrey Inaba is the co-founder of Inaba Williams
Architects based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He’s
interested in the knowledge that’s gained fromthe profession–especially ideas about urbanism,building technologies and the environment.
Jeffrey’s unique research background sets
the tone for the firm’s approach to design. He
believes research leads to improbable solutions
that allow people to experience buildings andenvironments in unexpected ways.
He is the founding director of C-LAB at Columbia
University, a group that studied new relationships
between architecture and technology. Before
starting Inaba Williams he was a principal of
AMO, the research consultancy founded by Rem
Koolhaas and Office for Metropolitan Architecture(OMA).
Jeffrey enjoys writing and editing. He’s theauthor of Adaptation: Architecture, Technology
and the City (2012), and World of Giving (Lars
Müller Publishers, 2010). For ten years he served
as the Features Editor of Volume magazine andhe’s edited numerous publications about design,cities, and technology.
His work has received grants and honors fromthe Graham Foundation, Canadian Centre forArchitecture, Knight Foundation, and Goldhirsh
Foundation.
Jeffrey has a Master of Architecture with
Distinction from Harvard University where hereceived the James Templeton Kelly Thesis
Prize, a MA in Architectural History and Theory
from Harvard, and an AB from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. He is an Adjunct Associate
Professor at UCLA, serves on the Advisory Boardsof Architect’s Newspaper and X-Lab. Jeffrey grew
up in Los Angeles

Professor Ronald Rael holds the Eva Li Memorial
Chair in Architecture and a joint appointment in
the Department of Architecture, in the College
of Environmental Design, and the Departmentof Art Practice at UC Berkeley. Rael is the authorof Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto
for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (University ofCalifornia Press 2017), an illustrated biography
and protest of the wall dividing the U.S. from
Mexico featured in a recent TED talk by Rael,and Earth Architecture (Princeton Architectural
Press, 2008), a history of building with earth in
the modern era to exemplify new, creative usesof the oldest building material on the planet.
Emerging Objects, a company co-founded byRael, is an independent, creatively driven, 3D
Printing MAKE-tank specializing in innovations in
3D printing architecture, building components,
environments and products. His most recent
startup company, FORUST, is a wood technology
company that brings together expertise indesign and 21st century manufacturing topromote healthy forests and sustainable design
through innovations in 3D printed wood .

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Luo Deyin

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Professor, Graduate School ofEngineering, University of Tokyo

Assistant Professor , Graduate Schoolof Engineering, University of Tokyo

Associate Professor,
School of Architecture, Tsinghua
University

As a professor of department of architecture in
graduate school of Engineering, the Universityof Tokyo, Dr. Otsuki is participating in Urban
Redesign Studies Unit which is providing an
education of master course students fromdepartment of Civil Engineering, Architecture and
Urban Engineering in the University of Tokyo.
In the recovery process of Tohoku Great East Japan
Earthquake in 2011, Dr. Otsuki had contributed tocreate the Community-Care Temporary Housing
Projects in Tono City and Kamaishi City of Iware
Prefecture, and also committed to the creation of
public recovery housing design in Okuma Town
of Fukushima Prefecture where all residents
had been forced to evacuate from their original
dwelling sites because of the Fukushima Nuclear
Disaster. The Urban Redesign Studies Unit wasestablished after the 2011 Great East Japan
Earthquake, as an organization to imagine
cities, regions, and land for the next generation.
The education program aims to collaborate
with various fields other than engineering, toestablish new urban society models that can beapplicable for each urban, regional, communal,and continental level, and to develop the model
into global cities outside of Japan.

As a special assistant professor in the Department
of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Mr.
Hagiwara is participating in Urban Redesign
Studies Unit which is providing an educationof master course students from department
of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban
Engineering in the University of Tokyo. In theprocess of reconstruction after the Great East
Japan Earthquake, Mr. Hagiwara conducted
research on the reconstruction of fishing villages
in Iwate Prefecture that were affected by thetsunami, and contributed to the reconstructionof communities in Minamisoma City, Fukushima
Prefecture, where residents were forced toevacuate after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
The Urban Redesign Studies Unit was establishedafter the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, as anorganization to imagine cities, regions, and land
for the next generation. The education programaims to collaborate with various fields otherthan engineering, to establish new urban society
models that can be applicable for each urban,
regional, communal, and continental level, andto develop the model into global cities outside ofJapan.

Luo is an associate professor of architectural
history at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua
University, Beijing. After completing his PhD
in architecture in 2003, he has devoted to theresearch and protection of Chinese vernaculararchitecture and traditional villages. The productsof his hard work during the past sixteen years
are over twenty books published from 2007 topresent, such as Chinese Ancient Theaters, The
Ancient Castles of Yu County, The Xianxia Trail,
Traditional Villages: from Concept to Practice,
Research and Practice of Vernacular Settlements.
He roots his architectural thinking in agricultural
civilization, which he thinks is the origin ofChinese culture. He develops his protection
working in combination between modernity andtradition, which he thinks is the future of mosttraditional villages. Among his many practicalprojects, Xihe Village and Pingtian Village are
two convincing cases that have obtained much
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Kian Goh

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Earth, Wind and Fire Breakout Room Host

Professor, Dept. of Architecture andBuilding Science, Tohoku University

Assistant Professor,
Department of Urban Planning
UCLA

Yasuaki Onoda would be the most notedarchitectural planner in recent Japan. He became
recognized in the field after his contribution to amasterpiece of contemporary architecture, Sendai
Mediatheque by Toyo Ito in 2001. In 2003, hereceived AIJ(Architectural Institution of Japan)
prize, which is a prestigious prize in the field ofarchitecture in Japan, for Reihoku Community
Hall Project with Hitoshi Abe. Since the Great East
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, he has
been playing an important role as an organizer forreconstruction projects in disaster affected areasand contributed to realize some good architecture
in a severe front line of reconstruction from thedisaster, being part of Archiaid and received some
important design awards. In Oct. 2018, Chineseversion of his AIJ award book, “Pre-Design
Thinking of Architecture” published by Wu-Nan
Book Inc., Taipei. As chairman of the Architectural
Planning Committee of the Architectural Instituteof Japan, he is working to improve the architectselection in Japan and to promote pre-design asa bridge between architectural planning researchand practice.

Kian Goh is Assistant Professor of Urban Planningat the University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin
School of Public Affairs. She researches therelationships between urban ecological design,
spatial politics, and social mobilization in thecontext of climate change and global urbanization.
More broadly, her research interests include urban
theory, urban design, environmental planning,
and urban political ecology. As a professionalarchitect, she cofounded design firm SUPERINTERESTING! and has practiced with Weiss/
Manfredi and MVRDV. She previously taught at
Northeastern University, MIT, the University ofPennsylvania, the New School, and Washington
University in St. Louis. She received a PhD in
Urban and Environmental Planning from MIT,and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.
Recent publications include articles on urban
planning and the Green New Deal in the Journalof the American Planning Association, the politics
of urban flooding in the International Journalof Urban and Regional Research, the global andurban networks of climate change adaptation
in Urban Studies, and queer space and activism
in the Annals of the American Association of
Geographers. Her upcoming book investigates
the urban spatial politics of climate change
adaptation, tracing flows of ideas and influence
between sites in Southeast Asia, North America,
and Europe, is under contract with the MIT Press.

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David Mah

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PANEL 2: Water
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Senior Lecturer, School of Design,
University of Melbourne

PANEL 2: Water
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Senior Lecturer, School of Design,
University of Melbourne

Leire is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Universityof Melbourne’s School of Design. She has taught
at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Designfrom 2010 to 2017, at London’s Architectural
Association School of Architecture, Graduate
School Landscape Urbanism Programme from2004 to 2007 and at Cornell University’s Collegeof Architecture, Art and Planning from 2006 till
2010. While at the GSD, Leire was part of theleadership team for the Waste to Energy Groupand was also design research lead for the Healthand Places Initiative, a research collaboration
between the Harvard Graduate School of Design
and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Healthfocused on studying the links between the built
environment and health outcomes. She has
co-authored the book: Architecture and Waste:
A (Re)Planned Obsolescence (2017, Actar) and
Lifestyled: Health and Places (2016, Jovis). Leireis a registered architect in Spain and studied
architecture at the ETSASS (Escuela Tecnica
Superior de Arquitectura de San Sebastian)and the Architectural Association School ofArchitecture, London, UK. Leire’s teaching andresearch focuses on resilience and sustainability
through an engagement with emerging design
approaches as well as novel technologies.
Her research spans between larger scales ofengagement such as urban metabolisms as wellas the relationships between health and placethrough to explorations in digital fabrication as
well as tectonic prototyping.

David Mah is a senior lecturer in urban design
and architecture at the University of Melbourne’s
school of design. Previous to the MSD, David was
a lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design(2010-2017). While at the GSD, David was also
design research lead for the Health and Places
Initiative, a research collaboration between
the Harvard Graduate School of Design andthe Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Healthfocused on studying the links between the built
environment and health outcomes. He alsotaught design and theory at Cornell University’s
department of architecture (2007-2010) andLandscape Urbanism at the graduate design
school of the Architectural Association in London(2004-2007).

Associate Professor,
University of Washington
Daniel Abramson approaches the disciplineof planning through urban design, historicpreservation and planning history, methods ofsocio-spatial analysis and public participation,and qualitative study of the politics andcultures of development decision-making. His
experience in community-engaged planning,
research, and design – mostly with immigrant,
low-income, indigenous, or otherwise
marginalized communities – ranges from
Boston to the American and Canadian PacificNorthwest, and from Poland to China and Japan.
Currently he focuses on community resilienceand adaptive planning in disaster recovery andhazard mitigation, as well as periurban andrural responses to rapid urbanization. Students
at all levels of undergraduate and graduate
education join my work, through course projects,
community-engaged studios as well as thesis
and dissertation research. Projects in Asia haveincluded six China Village Studios with academic
partners from Chengdu and Taiwan; a six-month
Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in recovery
planning after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
in Sichuan; and a collaboration with Kobe
University to use participatory GIS for urbanneighborhood earthquake recovery. Projects
in Washington integrate studios with FEMAand NSF-funded research on new protocols forstate agencies and communities to envision
earthquake- and tsunami-resilient development.

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Associate Professor,
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Professor,
University of Hong Kong

Tsuto Sakamoto is a Associate Professor
at National University of Singapore (NUS).
Graduated from Columbia University (M.S.),
Waseda University (M.E.) and Tokyo Universityof Science (B.E.), he practiced in Bernard Tschumi
Architects and Stan Allen Architects in New
York. Since joining NUS in 2000, he has led andtaught design studios in all undergraduate andgraduate levels, and conducted research in thearea of history, theory and criticism. His ability as
an educator is demonstrated through a numberof accolades including: Award of Excellencein LIXIL International University ArchitecturalCompetition (2013) and NUS Annual Teaching
Award (2015). As a designer, he was shortlistedin World Architecture Festival (Future Work
Category) (2013), and won Jury’s Selection in
New York High Line Design Competition (2003)
and Young Architects Forum Award, Architectural
League of New York (1998). Currently, his
design studio education focuses on architectural
responses to climatic changes, natural disasters
and air pollutions.

Wang Weijen, FHKIA, HKIUD, AIA, Design
Director of Wang Weijen Architecture, Andrew
KF Lee Professor in Architecture Design and
Director of Center for Chinese Architecture and
Urbanism at Faculty of Architecture, Universityof Hong Kong; received MArch from UC Berkeley,
MS and BS from National Taiwan University. He
was the Head of Department at HKU, Visiting
Professor at University of Montreal, MIT and
Taiwan Jiaotong University. He is the Editorial
Director of HKIA Journal OCCUPY, chiefCurator of Hong Kong Pavilion for 2018 Venice
Architecture Biennale, Curator of 2007 Hong
Kong Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism,
and Associate at TAC San Francisco 1987-1994.
His design projects receive AIA Design Awards,
HKIA Design Award, Good Design Award, Far
Eastern Architectural Award, China Architectural
Media Award, WA Architectural Award, as well as
Merit Award from Green Building Council. With
research focuses on typology and transformationof Chinese Architecture and Cities, his writingsand design works published in Domus, Mark,
Stradt Bauwelt, T+A, TA, WA, UED, and Dialogue,
including books Refabricating City: a reflection
by Oxford University Press, Regenerating Patio:
Studies of Macau Historical Urban Fabric, as well
as design monographs Urban Courtyardism by
UED, AW, and TA.

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Ken Tadashi Oshima

Elizabeth Maly

Water Breakout Room Host

Water Breakout Room Host

Professor, Deptartment ofArchitecture, University ofWashington

Assoc. Professor, International
Research Institute of Disaster Science,
Tohoku University

Ken Tadashi Oshima is Professor of Architecture at
the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Oshima
served as President of the Society of Architectural
Historians from 2016-18 and has been a visiting
professor at the Harvard Graduate School of
Design and taught at Columbia University. From
2003-5, he was a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury
Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study ofJapanese Arts and Cultures in London.
Dr. Oshima’s publications include Kiyonori
Kikutake: Between Land and Sea (2016),
Architecturalized Asia (2013), GLOBAL ENDS:
towards the beginning (2012), International
Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing
Kokusai Kenchiku (2009) and Arata Isozaki(2009). He curated “Tectonic Visions Between
Land and Sea: Works of Kiyonori Kikutake”(Harvard GSD, 2012), “SANAA: Beyond Borders””(Henry Art Gallery 2007-8), and was co-curatorof “Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive”(MoMA, 2017) and “Crafting a Modern World: The
Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noemi
Raymond” (UPenn, UCSB, Kamakura Museum ofModern Art, 2006-7).

Elizabeth Maly is an Associate Professor at theInternational Research Institute of Disaster Risk
Science, Tohoku University, in Sendai Japan.
With the theme of people-centered housing
recovery, her research interests are communitybased housing recovery and temporary,transitional and permanent housing provision
within reconstruction--including policy, process
and housing form--that support successful life
recovery for disaster-affected people. Past andcurrent research focuses on the experiencesof people affected by disaster, and the rolesof government and NGOs in the processes of
housing reconstruction and resettlement after
disasters in the U.S.A, Indonesia, Philippines, andJapan.

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Renato D`Alencon

Roberto Moris

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PANEL 3: Multi-Hazard
Moderator and Panelist

Professor, Deputy Director, School ofArchitecture, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Professor, Pontifical Catholic
University of Chile

Renato D’Alençon Castrillón is an Architect,
graduated from the School of Architecture of
the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, and M.
Arch. graduated from Cornell University. He
was awarded a Fulbright Grant from 2002 to2004 to pursue his Master’s, and a Deutscher
Akademischer Austausch Dienst Grant to pursue a
PhD Degree in the Technische Universität Berlin.
He has taught Design Studios and Building
Technology at Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Chile in the areas of architectural design andbuilding technology. He has been Guest Facultyat the University of Chile, Politecnico di Milano
and Technische Universität Berlin. He currently
works at Universidad Católica de Chile in research,teaching and as Academic Deputy Director. His
field of scholarly work includes environmental
design and performance of buildings, area where
he published the book “Acondicionamientos”(Ediciones ARQ, Santiago 2008) and several
articles; the recovery and development of heritagebuilding systems, an area which has published
the book “Eingewanderte Baumeister” (DOM
Publishers, Berlin 2014) and other publications
product of his research in catastrophes
management and heritage recovery (Reclaiming
Heritage); and in the area of Circular Economy inArchitecture, in which he leads the research group“RRR: Economía Circular en Arquitectura” .

Roberto MORIS He is an architect of the
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Master inCity Design and Social Sciences of the London
School of Economics, and Ph.D. student in Civil
Engineering from the University of Granada. He
is an expert on integrated planning, carrying
capacity models, sustainability, and resilience.
He has worked with the UNDP, World Bank, and
IADB. He was Technical Secretary of the Cities
and Territory Ministers Committee and National
Director of Urban Projects at the Chilean Ministryof Housing and Urban Development. He was
responsible for the creation of the first Urban
Planning academic program in Chile and thefounder of the Chilean Planners Network. He isa professor at the School of Architecture and theInstitute of Urban and Territorial Studies. He was
Principal Investigator of the National ResearchCenter for Integrated Risk Management, Directorof Cities Observatory UC, and the Plans and
Urban Projects Program UC.

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Cheng-Luen Hsueh

Shinya Okuda

Toshikazu Ishida

PANEL 3:Multi-Hazard, Panelist

PANEL 3:Multi-Hazard, Panelist

PANEL 3:Multi-Hazard, Panelist

Associate Professor,
National Cheng Kung University

Associate Professor,
National University of Singapore

Professor, Dept. of Architecture andBuilding Science, Tohoku University

Cheng-Luen Hsueh is Associate Professor
in the Department of Architecture, National
Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. He is also anarchitect and urban designer whose interest is in
Cinemetric thinking in exploring the embedded
relationships, as well as in designing resilience
within the Asian environment. Hsueh has an MS
in Architectural and Urban Design from Columbia
University as well as a BS in Architecture from the
National Cheng Kung University where he now
works as studio coordinator.

A/P Okuda is registered architect in Japan and
the Netherlands, have practiced with Pritzker
prize architects, such as Herzog & de Meuron in
Switzerland and Shigeru Ban architects in Japan,
prior to joining the NUS in 2008. A/P Okuda andhis studios past projects include internationallypatented Bio Shell (Biodegradable shelter, 2012),
award-winning Cloud Arch (Ultra-light long-spanstructure, 2014), publicly acclaimed Groove Light
project at i Light Marina Bay in Singapore (2016).
A/P Okuda is appointed as Principal Investigatorto develop one of the first Tropical Mass Timber
Construction systems by Ministry of National
Development, Singapore (Sky Timber project,
2016-). Honor received by A/P Okuda includes
being the co-winner of Archifest Pavilion,
Singapore (2014), a finalist of President’s
Design Award for architecture, Singapore (2010),
Excellence Award, Asian Design Awards, Hong
Kong Designers Association, Hong Kong (2009),
the 3rd prize at the International Advanced
Architecture Competition, Barcelona, Spain(2007) among many others. He is one of theleaders of Advanced Architectonics Design Lab(AADL).

Toshikazu Ishida is a professor at the Departmentof Architecture and Building Science, Tohoku
University. In 1992, he was invited as a Research
Fellow to the Faculty of Architecture, Delft
Technology University in the Netherlands where
he engaged in the research on the origin andevolution of Dutch Modern Architecture and
Urbanism. After return to Japan he earned his
Doctor of Engineering (Dr-Eng), Architecture,from the University of Tokyo in 1996. He focuses
his research on: Amphibious Living and Water
Resilient Settlement in the Netherlands, Energy
Smart Urbanism, Green Building Design, Energy
Harvesting Technology, User immersive energy
communication environment with visualization
design. He has received professional awards inJapan and in the Netherlands. His major researchoutcome includes Rotterdam IABR 2012 projectof Post 311 Sendai OASIS an Urban Restructuring
Design proposal for Sendai city, based on theGreen Infrastructure and Renewable Energy
source in the Post 311 disaster in Tohoku.

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Osamu Murao

Dana Cuff

Muti-Hazard Breakout Room Host

Muti-Hazard Breakout Room Host

Professor, Founder of International
Strategies for Disaster Mitigation
Laboratory, Tohoku University

Professor, Department of Architectureand Urban Design, UCLA;
Director, cityLAB, UCLA

Dr. Osamu Murao is a professor at the International
Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS)at Tohoku University, which was established inorder to disseminate learning from the 2011 East
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster, and thefounder of the International Strategy for Disaster
Mitigation Laboratory (ISDM). Together withcollaborating organizations from many countries
and with broad areas of specializations, the IRIDeS
conducts world-leading research on natural
disaster science and disaster mitigation. In order
to be in charge of ISDM in Regional and Urban
Reconstruction Research Division, Dr. Murao wastransferred to IRIDeS from Faculty of Engineering,
Information and Systems at the University ofTsukuba in April 2013. His current researches
focus on post-disaster recovery process and urban
design, and the relationship between physicalenvironment (architecture and urban design) anddisaster. To date, with research grants by Ministryof Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology of Japan, and other organizations,
he has investigated the post-disaster recovery
process for damaged areas in Taiwan, Turkey, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Peru, Philippines, andWorld Trade Center in New York, as well as the2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

Dr. Cuff has engaged the cultural studies ofarchitecture as a teacher, scholar, practitioner,
and activist. Her leadership in urban innovation
is widely recognized both in the U.S. and abroad.
In 2006, Cuff founded cityLAB, a research anddesign center that initiates experimental projects
to explore metropolitan possibilities. cityLAB
is currently developing sustainable, highperformance, low-cost housing prototypes for
infill sites ranging from backyards to schoolyards.
In 2017, after a decade of research that included
a full-scale demonstration house built on the
UCLA campus, Cuff co-authored California Statelegislation, effectively opening 8.1M singlefamily lots for secondary rental units. cityLAB
represented the United States at the 2010 Venice
Architecture Biennale, was featured on CNN andin Newsweek magazine, and was named one of
the top four urban think tanks in the country byArchitect Magazine.
Since 2013, Cuff has led a cross-disciplinary teamat UCLA with a substantial multi-year award fromThe Mellon Foundation for the “Urban Humanities
Initiative.” UHI offers students from architecture,urban studies, and the humanities a Graduate
Certificate for innovative study of collective life in
Pacific Rim megacities.

RESPONDENTSTOSHIYA UEKI (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY)NORIKO OSUMI (VICE PRESIDENT OF TOHOKU UNIVERSITY)
TAKAKO IZUMI (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, APRU: MULTI HAZARDS DIRECTOR)MAHORO UCHIDA (CURATOR, EXHIBITION MANAGER)
ALI MOSLEH (DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND EVELYN KNIGHT CHAIR IN ENGINEERING AT UCLA)DIRECTOR OF THE B. JOHN GARRICK INSTITUTE FOR THE RISK SCIENCES AT UCLA)SAEED NOZHATI (POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH SCHOLAR, INSTITUTE FOR THE RISK SCIENCES AT UCLA)CHANDLER MCWILLIAMS (ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DESIGN MEDIA ARTS, UCLA)AARON GROSS (CHIEF RESILIENCE OFFICER, CITY OF LOS ANGELES)CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNE (CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER, CITY OF LOS ANGELES)CHRISTINA SCHONLEBER (DIRECTOR POLICY & PROGRAMS, APRU)JOHN RUNDLE (APRU, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS)HUI ZHANG (APRU, PROFESSOR, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY)TSUNG-YI PAN (APRU, ASSOCIATE RESEARCH FELLOW, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)SUPOT TEACHAVORASINSKUN (APRU, PROFESSOR, CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY)KUNIYOSHI TAKEUCHI (APRU, PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE)LALITH MADDEGEDARA (APRU, ASSOC. PROFESSOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO)
MAOYAN XU (PROFESSOR, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY)WANLING WANG (DOCTORATE STUDENT, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY)ROBERT HUTCHISON (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON)HUO PUAY PENG (HEAD OF THE ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE)KWANG-TYNG WU (CHAIRMAN AND PROFESSOR, NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY)GEORGE C. YAO (DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY)
NATALIA ECHEVERRI (ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG)ULRICH KIRCHHOFF (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG)
DONALD BATES (PROFESSOR, CHAIR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN,UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE)
LUIS EDUARDO BRESCIANI (PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT / DIRECTOR,SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF CHILE)MARGARITA GREENE (PROFESSOR, PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF CHILE)ASHOK DAS (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING, UNIVERSITY OF
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Hitoshi Abe

Fumihiko Imamura

Sinovu Nakanishi

Professor, Department of Architectureand Urban Design at UCLA
Director, xLAB

Director, International ResearchInstitute of Disaster Science,
Tohoku University

Hitoshi Abe, Professor and former Chair in the
Department of Architecture and Urban Design
at the School of Arts and Architecture and the
Director of the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki
Center for Japanese Studies. He also holds the
Terasaki Chair for contemporary Japanese study.
Since 1992, when Dr. Hitoshi Abe won first prize in
the Miyagi Stadium Competition and establishedAtelier Hitoshi Abe, he has maintained an active
international design practice based in Sendai,
Japan, as well as a schedule of lecturing andpublishing, which place him among the leaders in
his field. He opened a second office in Los Angeles
in 2008 to work on a series of projects outsideof Japan including invited competitions andexhibition installations.Known for architecturethat is spatially complex and structurally
innovative, the work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe has
been published internationally and received
numerous awards. His recent works include a
departmental building on the New Campus of
the Vienna University of Economics and Business(WU), the 3M Headquarters building in St. Paul,
Minnesota and Terasaki Institute Headquarters
building in Los Angels.
In 2016, he established xLAB at UCLA ,an international think tank thatexaminesarchitecture’s
elastic
boundaries
andconsiders new possibilitiesthrough creation ofinterdisciplinary platforms for the study of the
future ofthe built environment. xLAB’s research
focuses on the trajectory of changingarchitectural
discipline, where it overlapswith the studies
of environmental changes,physical reality andtechnology.

Prof. Fumihiko Imamura finished his PhD study
at Tohoku University, Japan in 1989. He waspromoted to a full‐professor of Tohoku University
in 2000 and now is a director of the International
Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at
Tohoku University since April 2014, and also is a
professor of Tsunami Engineering. He is an expert
on tsunami modeling for warning, mitigation
planning and education/awareness. He has
conducted several field surveys as leader forearthquakes and tsunamis damage investigation
since the 1992 Nicaragua and Indonesia. And heis a secretary, international TIME-project (Tsunami
Inundation Modeling Exchange) supported
by IOC and IUGG Tsunami commission. He is amember of Science Council of Japan, Science
member of the Central Disaster Management
Council in Japan, and was the president of Japan
Society for Natural Disaster Science in 20082011. After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, He wasa member of study group of the reconstruction
design council in response to the 2011 Tohoku
earthquake at cabinet office, and the committee
for technical investigation on Countermeasuresfor Earthquakes and Tsunamis of the Central
Disaster Management Council.

Architect,
Executive Director
Miraikan-National Museum of
Emerging Science and Innovation,
Project Producer
Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021
Sinovu Nakanishi is an Executive Director of
Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Scienceand Innovation,Tokyo) with five years of experience
directing the departments of curation, science& technology, education and communication.
Sinovu specializes in architectural design and art
produce, and is responsible as project producer
for Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021, an art festival inTokyo held every two years

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Yasuaki Onoda

Ali Mosleh

Osamu Murao

Professor, Dept. of Architecture andBuilding Science, Tohoku University

Distinguished University Professor
and Evelyn Knight Chair in
Engineering, UCLA,
Director of the B. John Garrick
Institute for the Risk Sciences, UCLA

Professor, Founder of International
Strategies for Disaster Mitigation
Laboratory, Tohoku University

ARCDR3 PUBLICATION CHIEF EDITOR

Mohamed Sharif
Assistant Adjunct Professor , Dept. ofArchitecture and Urban Design, UCLAPROGRAM COORDINATORSLENA POZDNYAKOVAMARTIN GARCIA-FRY

Chief ArcDR Initiative Coordinator,
xLAB Programs Coordinator,
Department of Architecture and
Urban Design, UCLATOMOKA SATOArcDR Initiative Program Coordinator,
IRIDeS,
Tohoku University

ArcDR Initiative Administrative
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Tohoku University

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