Australian Journal of Emergency Management: Interview with Helen Lochhead, deputy Government Architect New South Wales (Australia). She believes designers can not only help governments and communities plan for, and rebuild after, major disasters, but also initiate better solutions that build long-term urban resilience. The interview focuses on Rebuild by Design as an example of this.
Library
Since the Hurricane Sandy competition, Rebuild by Design, and the processes that were inspired by that work including, the National Disaster Resilience Competition, the Bay Area Resilient by Design Challenge, Water is Leverage, and others, have sparked interest in communities, governments academics, and researchers. To help researchers understand more about our work, and to continue to contribute to a growing portfolio of writings about the work, we have launched this library as a resource for all who are interested.
We would like to thank the University of Groningen for their partnership in locating and cataloging the articles and books that have examined our work. If you know of a resource that is not listed here, please let us know by sending an email to info@rebuildbydesign.org
If you are looking for the Hurricane Sandy Competition archives, please visit the New York Historical Society here.
ENR: Reviews major milestones for the building sector in 2015, listing Rebuild by Design projects among them.
University of Pennsylvania Press: The five components of resilient systems, as outlined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Rebuild by Design competition brief, are used as a framework in this article to evaluate the merits of particular interventions or management approaches in cultural landscapes.
Social Research: Discusses the development of strategic efforts and design concepts which aim to strengthen the coastal edge structures of the New York City metropolitan region, for protection from natural disasters brought by the increasing climate change as of September 2015. A team led by design firms WXY and West 8 have proposed a regional-scale approach to coastal protection, with a concept to create an offshore barrier island called The Blue Dunes.
MIT: Investigates the design process through the case of Rebuild by Design in order to understand what would make it a useful alternative to improve disaster recovery processes and outcomes. This thesis finds that the competition design teams practice characteristics of design thinking. The resulting design ideas synthesize across regional, social, and economic systems, and offer an improved approach to the current infrastructure practices of flood protection and water mitigation. At the same time, the ability of the design process to fulfill the organizational goals of the competition, such as capacity building for local governments, remains mixed.
Goethe-Institut: The purpose of the REBUILD BY DESIGN MUNICH exhibition and symposium is to approach the topic of disasters, climate change and sustainability challenges of the built environment and communities in an interdisciplinary way by presenting and discussing core aims, facts, and terms. The RBD competition, initiated after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the United States in 2012, offers the opportunity to discuss this topic, its societal character, and its relevance for planning and design disciplines.
Details the process of the Rebuild by Design Hurricane Sandy Design Competition and chronicles the teams, research, and details behind each of the comprehensive adaptation projects that resulted from the competition.
Columbia University: From June 2013 to April 2014, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development sponsored an interdisciplinary design competition, Rebuild by Design, to cultivate innovative proposals for Hurricane Sandy recovery and to increase the region’s long-term resilience. Ten teams worked with specific municipalities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. This thesis examines the competition process, and asks what impacts the stakeholder engagement process had on the design proposals. Using a comparison of the proposals before and after the engagement phase, as well as observation at public events and interviews with team members, I found that the public process shaped the proposals in distinct ways for each of the teams, and at the same time, the competition attracted and sustained the attention of members of the affected communities. The public process did not generally yield new ideas, but refined those already extant in the early-stage proposals. These findings have implications for future public design competitions, participatory planning processes, and disaster recovery efforts.
SeaCities: Focuses on presenting Water as Leverage proactive integral design strategies in three Asian cities: Khulna, Chennai and Semarang. Through the three projects, the chapter shows how several water management measures on different scales can be combined in integral design proposals that, in addition to addressing climate change, also improve the urban quality and liveability of the cities.
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