UAP EA’s work on Alternative Temporary Shelters recognized in Conscious Cities Anthology 2021

By: Ar. Rodelon M. Ramos, UAP, PIEP

The UAP Emergency Architects’ case study on co-producing alternative temporary shelters as a pathway towards building community resilience was selected as a finalist for the Conscious Cities Anthology 2021 dubbed “The Person-Space Continuum.”

The paper, entitled “Co-producing emergency shelter solution as a community empowerment approach: learnings from the MOVEUP Alternative Temporary Shelters (ATS)” builds upon the fundamental work of the United Architects of the Philippines- Emergency Architects and the linkages and collaborative partnerships it has established with key stakeholders and actors such as communities, local governments and civil society organizations involved in the Moving Urban Poor Communities towards Resilience (MOVEUP) Project.

The Center for Conscious Design emerged from the Conscious Cities movement that advocates for a science-informed and community-driven approach to connecting people and places through mindfully crafted technology and interfaces. Working on Theme 1: Community Participation, Cross-disciplinary Design Research, and Practice, and interfacing with the CCD’s advocacy on Design for Equity and Democratic Design, the UAP EA’s pool of writers/researchers was directed by Ar. Geomilie Tumamao-Guittap with co-authors Architects Frank Urcia, Vinson Pacheco Serrano, Rodelon Ramos, Jocelyn Francisco, and Adrian Toisa, brings into international awareness the insights from years of co-developing and co-designing emergency shelter systems with various stakeholders and partners through the MOVEUP project.

The anthology takes off on the Center for Conscious Design’s 2021 Conscious Cities Festival in which the following themes were explored:

1.Community Participation, Crossdisciplinary Design Research, and Practice.

2.The relationship between the phenomenology of spatial experience, building technology, and computation.

3.Quantifying the person- space dialogue and impact-driven design methods and processes.

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The compendium of submitted and approved case studies and papers were published online last October 2021 on the official website of the Center for Conscious Design.

UAP EA’s Case Study on Alternative Temporary Shelters published on Conscious Cities Anthology 2021’s compendium and accessed through Google Books