About This Book
Climate disasters are no longer rare or unexpected, yet the response to them stays stubbornly reactive — fragmented, short-horizon, focused on the weeks after rather than the years either side. Adapt argues that architects are badly underused in this picture, and that their value lies less in rebuilding structures than in acting as strategic thinkers, facilitators and advocates for communities navigating prolonged uncertainty.
Assembled from essays, interviews and photographs, the book gathers voices from architecture, academia, policy and community organising, and treats recovery as what it actually is: human, complex and thoroughly non-linear. Housing, governance and risk are read against trauma, inequality and attachment to place. The sharpest question it puts to the profession is one of timing — how architects might engage with communities not only after a disaster, but well before one.
Key Features
- Essays, interviews and photographs drawn from architecture, academia, policy and community organising
- Contributors include Carol Marra, David Sanderson, Elizabeth Mossop, Leeanne Marshall, Nikhila Madabhushi, Rachel Steffensen, Sean Lees, Christy Bryar and Timothy Heffernan
- 106 pages, published by CARD
What You'll Discover
- Why disaster recovery resists the linear project timelines architectural practice is built around
- How housing, governance and risk intersect with trauma, inequality and attachment to place
- The case for architects working as facilitators and advocates rather than solely as designers of replacement buildings
- What meaningful engagement with at-risk communities looks like before a disaster, not only in its aftermath
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 175 x 240 mm
- Pages: 106
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780646744131
- Publisher: CARD
- Publication Date: not stated by the publisher
Perfect For
Architects and planners working in disaster recovery, resilience and community engagement; policy researchers concerned with housing and climate risk; and practitioners looking for an Australian account of what recovery asks of the profession.