Placemaking in Displacement

In between different modalities of representing time and space, the place-based indigenous communities often struggle to maintain their inhabitance and collective use of the natural resource base, which is integral to cultural identity, in times when talks of climate change and disaster mitigation/prevention dominates knowledge and practices of land use and managing territories. Relocation, in the name of modernization and safety, has occurred to the indigenous communities over the past century. The degree to which loss and displacement have been normalized, nevertheless, found echo in cases of post-disaster reconstruction when relocation is seen as a necessary measure to improve the people’s livelihood. How to cope with displacement becomes a lasting issue challenging the indigenous communities in general and the victims of disasters in particular. Searching for ways to nurture sense of ownership collectively, in the light, becomes a key for the displaced communities to terms with the threatening connection between indigenous communities and places. Meanwhile, approaching placemaking in displacement can often turn crisis into critical opportunities for the impacted communities to recover the disappearing commons in coping with issues of ecological democracy, food autonomy, cultural diversity, alternative economics, cross-culture communication, etc. Creative practices can often bring together people across ethnicities to reclaim their ownership to the new places, which are what we expect to learn from the participants of this workshop. We invite presentations that explore alternative ways to cope with displacement through placemaking. Both theoretical projects and stories of practices are welcome.

The workshop will be held in Rinari, a village constructed in 2010 in Southern Taiwan to relocate more than 500 households displaced by the 2009 typhoon Morakot. As one of the most noted recovery cases, the village is currently co-inhabited by three tribes, including Rukai and Paiwan. NTU Building and Planning Research Foundation has continuously contributed to some of the post-disaster recovery actions which reflect important concerns about indigenous cultural recovery here. We expect participants who can share comparable experiences with us. The participants will experience community-based homestay program and have a chance to discuss the ongoing recovery effort with the local communities.

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倚景制動：以地景行動調適動遷流離（Placemaking in Displacement: Recovery Indigenous Culture)

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Workshop Program: Roundtables and Sessions

Saturday, March 15, 2014 

participant presentation 

Roundtable A: Cross-Culture Learning: Lessons from the Lily School and the Miquan School  災後教育與部落跨文化學習 (8:30-11:00 AM)

The Reconstruction of the Minquan Primary School at Namasia, Kaohsiung 
Tzu Lung Chiu (Project Director, Delta Foundation, 邱姿蓉，台達基金會計劃主任)

Lessons from the Lily Primary School at Rinari, Pingtung
Shih-Chong Chen (Principal, The Lily Primary School 陳世聰，長榮百合國小校長)

【Session 1】Placemaking in Displacement  (12:30-2:40 PM)　【議題一】社區空間、倚景制動

1.1 Telling the Stories of Disasters Study Juku

Elizabeth Maly (Disaster Reduction Institute-DRI), Mayumi Sakamoto (DRI), Saneyuki Udagawa (DRI), Hiromasa Watanabe (DRI), Ryoga Ishihara (DRI), Junko Takamori (DRI), Mariko Yamazaki (Chuetsu Memorial Archive), Shosuke Sato (Tohoku University International Institute of Disaster Science), 

1.2 Place Making in Displacement: The Saga of the Choi Yuen Village

Ng, Mee Kam (Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

1.3 Reconstruction Machizukuri from the Great East Japan Earthquake in Ofunato’s Ryori Village

Shin Aiba (Tokyo Metropolitan University), Hirotaka IKEDA (Tokoha University), Shuhei Kimura (University of Tsukuba), Shosuke Sato (Tohoku University)

1.4  Role of Community Space in Forming a Community in Rental Apartment Complex

Yeon-Geum Kim (Wul Landscape Architecture Office)

Saturday, March 15, 2014 

Roundtable B : Recovering Stories from Local Communities (8:30 -10:20 AM)

災後重建與部落產業發展

Hui-chuan Hsu (Majia Community Association, 瑪家部落代表徐惠娟), 

Ngedrelre Druluan (The Association of Rukai Community Economies, 魯凱族產業發展協會理事長李金龍), 

Hsien-Nu Pai (Tavalan Community Association大社部落產業發展代表白仙女）

【Session 2】Design for Resilience (3:00-4:50 PM)【議題二】為了社區韌性的設計

2.1 Flood Resilience and Flood Adaptation In An Urban Low-Income Community in Metro Manila

Kuei-Hsien Liao (School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

2.2 A Community Building Activities in Hokkaido (North Japan) through Paper Storytelling

Arisa Nakamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology) 

2.3 Reconstruction Assistance in Response the Great East Japan Earthquake. Lost Homes Project: Commemoration of Lost Towns and Villages by 1:500 scales models

Kyohei Yamada (Kobe University), Ryosuke Akita (Kobe University)

2.4 Cultural Diaplacement and Inheritance

Namiko Minai (Department of Housing and Architecture, Faculty of Human Sciences

and Design, Japan Women’s University)

2.5 Challenges and Obstacles for Turning Around of Small Companies in Onagawa Town

Kenji Michiura (Management Consultant / Self Employed)

Sunday, March 16 2014

【Session 3】Cross-Cultural Exchange/Conflicts in Reconstruction (10:40-12:40)【議題三】重建中的跨文化交流/衝突

3.1 Transcultural Placemaking: Living and Rebuilding with the Others

Jeffrey Hou (University of Washington)

3.2 The “White House Project”: A Collaboration Between Taiwanese and Japanese Artists, Linking Disaster Areas

Eiji Tarumi (Disaster Area Residents Exchange/ Kobe City, Retired)

Osamu Ishii (Disaster Area Residents Exchange/Kobe City, Retired), Ikuo Kobayashi (Kinmokusei/Co-Plan), Yoshimi Amakawa (Kinmokusei/Co-Plan), Tamiyo Kondo (Kobe University), Elizabeth Maly (Disaster Reduction Institute)

3.3 Challenges and Outlooks of Machizukuri Under the Initiative of Community in Shishiori, Kesennuma

Kenta Nakao (Kinki University), Masaki Kondo (Shishiori Machizukuri Committee), Yoshihisa Wakita (Kinki University), Yasushi Takeuchi (Miyagi University), Norio Maki (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)

3.4 The Project of Japanese Wooden House Moving across the Border: Social Capital between Taiwan and Japan

Yoko Hamasuna (Senshu University)

3.5 Taiwan and Japan Cultural Exchange Go for reconstruction East Japan-through earthquake and natural material building

Akira Miyasada (Machi-communication)

【Session 4】Sustaining Tradition in Displacement (1:50-3:40 PM)

【議題四】復育傳統，倚景制動

4.1 A Review of Post-disaster reconstruction works in Rinari Community by BPRF Team

Suay Lee, John K.C. Liu, Yuchen Chen (National Taiwan University Building and Planning Research Foundation)

4.2 Traditions and Kinship Structures in Shizugawa, Minami Sanriku Town

Shigeki Kudo (Miyagi University), Nao Homma (PLANTEC Architects), Yasushi Takeuchi (Miyagi University), Norio Maki (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)

4.3 The Possibility of Land Use of Low laying areas Starting with an Oyster Shed, in Karakuwa, Kessenuma City

Taisei Chiba (Miyagi University), Yasushi Takeuchi (Miyagi University), Maki Norio (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)

4.4 Adaptive Planning for Indigenous Community Resilience

Daniel Abramson (University of Washington)

4.5 The theological perspective on the post-disaster exile and reconstruction of Typhoon Morokat – the case of Davalan tribe

I-Chun Kuo (The University of Edinburgh ), Min-Jay Kang (National Taiwan University)

Roundtable C (3:50-5:00 PM)

Discussion and Closing Remarks

Post-diaster reconstruction: Minquan Primary School (那瑪夏民權國小)

During the workshop, Delta Foundation（台達電子文教基金會） will present the case of Minquan primary school in Namasia, which was destroyed by the typhoon Morakot in 2009 too. It is also a case located in territories inhabited by the indigenous. We will learn about how the rebuilt school tries to integrate expression of indigenous culture, eco-building, and disaster prevention.

八八風災時為土石流所淹沒的民權國小，由台達集團和台達基金會於2009 認養援建於那瑪夏原鄉，是台灣鑽石級綠建築小學，亦肩負部落避難中心功能；為協助原鄉調適氣候變遷，設計以綠建築和節能科技為核心，達到同級建築之最少能耗，災時更應用再生能源作為避難中心備援系統；自2011年啓用至今總計有上千人次原鄉住民於此避災，不需因氣候災難而被迫離鄉，落實「離災不離鄉」的原則，將極端氣候對於原民財產和文化存續的威脅減至最低。

See more at  PROBABLY THE BEST PRIMARY SCHOOL IN THE WORLD

Screening of Stories of Recovery 重建影片兩場特映

 Courtesy of Laucu Drulan

3.14 | 7:30 PM【Screening 1 】＠Kubav at Majia

Reconstruction of the Minquan Elementary School/Megastructures: Eco School影片放映：偉大工程巡禮：那瑪夏環保小學

3.15 | 7:30 PM【Screening 2 Host by the Kucapungane Community】

How Far Is The Way Home 影片放映： 回家的路有多遠

@ Kucapungane 好茶部落安息日教會旁 | 此特映為部落主辦活動，配合工作坊開放，特此感謝

Projects: Gardening/Making Homeland (by NTUBP& Lily School, 2012)

Some of the participants of this project will join the Rinari workshop to talk about significance of sustaining tradition in rebuilding community.

See more in 
Our Forest School (夢想一個山林小學)

Venues and Transportation

Important info:

1. There will be a pick up from  Zuoying station on March 14 2014. 

Please find the Starbucks at HSR Zuoying station by 10:30 am. 

Contact: Chingfen Yang 0933892634

2. If you will arrive later, you can easily take a taxi to reach Rinari within 50 minutes. 
Please tell the driver your destination is 
"Rinari 屏東縣霧臺鄉禮納里 （瑪家農場）長榮百合國小，靠近水門.“ 

It would be helpful if you can write down or print out the address and show it to the taxi driver.  Let us know anytime if you have trouble locating the site.