Embracing Change: Building Resilience with Communities

hiroko — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:59:53 +0000

We are very pleased to share that Hiroko Kikuchi of Creative Ecology Partners will be participating in the Environmental Innovators Symposium at Keio University in Japan, organized by TPF2 & Architecture for Humanity Tokyo.

The Panel is titled “Really Resiliency – Reconstruction After Disaster and the Shift From Small Scale Reaction to Large Scale Transformation” and below is the description and a list of an amazing group of speakers! If you are in Tokyo and Yokohama area, please stop by!

Rebuilding communities and nations after disaster is challenging in itself. In such a situation can reconstruction be used as catalyst for rebuilding nations and preparing for a future filled with change? This session explores the possibility of crossing disciplines to find a way to scale solutions in order to have a significant impact at the scale of nations while working at the scale of communities.

Speakers

Eric Cesal – Director of Reconstruction and Resiliency studio, Architecture for Humanity
Thaddeus Pawlowski – Associate Urban Designer, Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery Operations, NYC Department of City Planning
Chiaki Hayashi – Founder, creative agency Loftwork Inc.; Co-founder ofFabCafe Tokyo; Advisory Board, Creative Commons Japan
Wilhelm Klauser – Architect, Rural revitalization strategies
Keiko Iwasaki – PhD researcher, The University of Tokyo – Social Capital and Mental Health in Fukushima
Misato Uehara – Assistant Professor, Shinshu University – Integrated Landscape Urbanism

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Why are we calling ourselves Creative Ecology?

hiroko — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 05:49:04 +0000

We, as humans, are indispensable components of the ecological system that offers infinite capacity and possibility to embrace art and culture, diversity, and intangibility as necessary elements of sustainability. This is at the center of what, we believe, constitutes Creative and Ecological Design.

An ecological to our environment also lets us act independently for both flexibility and complexity of individual engagement and community-creation. In the space and flow of the lively ecological mechanism that is constantly, creative, changing and social, we believe that the most healthy, sustainable, active, and expressive people and place are to be prospered. When we; however, place ourselves outside the organism or think that this holistic view is irrelevant to the actual community development, design and engagement, the risk is that we tend to fall into or depend too much on the intellectual approach and application to the community-making, often resulting in artificial and meaningless outcomes. The system of ecology encourages articulating fundamental beliefs, values and ideas while reflecting and focusing on process to generate meaningful outcomes for people.

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