TITLE: Climate Resiliency Architecture in Mo&#39;orea
AUTHORS: Eva Louise Gibbs-Zehnder

[DESCRIPTION]
This project aims to measure the resilience to climate of traditional building techniques using place-based materials in Mo’orea. By working with the community, we hope to produce several culturally-relevant structures along the coast that can then be monitored over the course of a decade.

[BEFORE_START]
This proposed protocol is a set of guidelines aiming to center the community in active decision-making and creation. If any of these guidelines make any community member uncomfortable in any way, they must be reevaluated and reworked.

[STEPS]
SECTION: Promoting Project and Community Awareness
1. Create flyers and social media posts informing public of project several months before desired start of project.
SECTION: Community Workshops
2. Workshop 1: Identify Culturally Appropriate Materials
Informal circle format in which community members are encouraged to share their knowledge
A designated community member is the 'scribe' and documents the meeting content
SECTION: Community Workshops
2.1. Workshop 2: Identify Different Building Techniques 
Informal circle format in which community members are encouraged to share their knowledge
A designated community member is the 'scribe' and documents the meeting content
SECTION: Community Workshops
2.2. Workshop 3: Design Process
In this workshop, community members are encouraged to bring in their initial conceptual designs based on the previous two gatherings. The circle will discuss the designs and give feedback.
SECTION: Promoting Project and Community Awareness
1.1. Directly inform youth, potentially deliver promotion at local schools
SECTION: Community Workshops
2.3. Workshop 4: Design Process
Community members bring back edited designs in response to previous feedback and circle continues to refine design.
SECTION: Community Workshops
2.4. Workshop 5: Design Process
Community members bring back edited designs in response to previous feedback and circle continues to refine design. As designs begin to take shape, designers are encouraged to think of location of structures.
SECTION: Community Workshops
2.5. Workshop 6: Design Process
Community members bring back edited designs in response to previous feedback and circle continues to refine design. Designers visit potential locations and consider function of structure.
SECTION: Community Workshops
2.6. Workshop 7: Design Process
Community members bring back edited designs in response to previous feedback and circle continues to refine design.
SECTION: Community Workshops
2.7. Workshop 8: Design Process
Finalize design and agree on the location and design of each site
SECTION: Construction
3. Aquire permits to build on selected sites
SECTION: Evaluation
4. Following construction, monthly checks conducted by three project members each evaluate the following categories and submit their data to a public website displaying and documenting the project
SECTION: Evaluation
4.1. Response to Climate
On a scale from 1 to 10, how is the structure holding up? Is it rusting? Is the plant material disintegrating?
SECTION: Evaluation
4.2. Functional
On a scale from 1 to 10, how effectively is the structure serving its intended purpose? Is the community actually using it? For what? How often?
SECTION: Evaluation
4.3. Maintenance
On a scale from 1 to 10, how often does this structure need repair? How often do certain materials need to be replaced?
SECTION: Promoting Project and Community Awareness
1.2. Contact local architecture firms and construction companies willing to partner with the community
SECTION: Construction
3.1. Submit final designs to construction company and get it approved by local government
SECTION: Construction
3.2. Construct sites according to community direction