Block 2 / Credits: 0.5 EC
Coordinators: Dr. Pamela Duran Diaz and Carolina Lunetta MSc.
Description
This hands-on workshop equips future urban planners, policymakers, and stakeholders with practical skills to navigate the complexities in resilience strategy development, fostering sustainable urban development and proactive resilience-building efforts.
This workshop comprises two sessions based on the City Resilience Framework of the Resilient Cities Network. In the first session, participants will work on assessing urban risks (acute shocks and chronic stresses) in a selected city. They will prioritize short-term and long-term threats and categorize them by severity of impact and likelihood of occurrence. In the second session, participants will develop a resilience diagnosis based on the 12 guiding principles, drivers, and actions of the “Resilience Wheel”. The diagnostic helps identify the city’s existing resources or strengths to tackle the identified threats. Participants will then develop specific strategies that tackle the most threats with the least actions and investment. Participants will work in teams, and present their processes, strategies, and conclusions at the end of the workshop.
Objectives
In this workshop, participants will:
- Conduct urban risk assessment of a selected city using the City Resilience Framework (CRF).
- Evaluate city assets, strengths, and resources through a resilience diagnosis using the Resilience Wheel.
- Identify effective mitigation strategies for identified threats.
- Create targeted resilience strategies that maximize the impact with minimal resources.
Assessment
The assessment will be based on a pass/fail grading system. Participants will work in teams to develop and present both a resilience diagnostic and a resilience strategy for their chosen city.