Description
This panel brings together creative practitioners, Aboriginal leaders and researchers to share insights from their ongoing placemaking collaboration in the Clarence Valley in NSW. ‘Place’ is an unequivocal aspect of people’s experiences of disaster. From phenomena such as topophilia marking people’s love of place, and solastalgia capturing one’s sorrow of its destruction, processes that shine a light on rehabilitating places to build resilience and prepare for disasters are critical. These highly sensory and environmental experiences of disaster strongly relate to Aboriginal perspectives on caring for Country, and offer a decolonised view of space as inherently linked to time; a process, not only an outcome. Such ways of thinking about place supports and accelerates the movement towards place-based programs, and community-led processes.The panel will begin with a short film capturing recent work in the Clarence Valley. Following this, panellists will discuss how their communities have come together to generate rich ideas for new or upgraded spaces, places and concurrent services that work in concert across multiple modes; for everyday social resilience as well as during emergencies. Doing so reveals that place-making is a relational process that uses participatory principles in place-based settings. It aims to support community resilience planning through a socially engaged process of co-creation of ideas for places, as well as through built and infrastructural outcomes generated from that process. The panel will explore how placemaking enhances resilience and how this project captures and communicates evidence of this approach.
| Period | 4 Sept 2024 |
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| Event title | Australian Disaster Resilience Conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Sydney, Australia, New South WalesShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |