Projections 4: Responding to Disaster: Trauma, Recovery, and Remembrance

Projections

I EDITORIAL: ON TRAUMA, RECOVERY AND REMEMBRANCE GREG MORROW Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies + Planning

In a world of real and imagined danger in which we find ourselves, the process of trauma, recovery and remembrance has taken on new significance. While we do not address the events of September 11th 2001 directly, this volume of Projections certainly has its genesis in the struggle we have faced to rebuild, personally and professionally, in the months and years following that tragic morning. For me, the struggle to cope with disaster recovery began earlier, following my visit to Sarajevo in 2000 where I was part of a group re-designing the government center after its 1992-95 siege. Five years after the war ended, the scars of conflict were immediately present (Fig. 1): buildings toppled, areas landmined, growing squatter settlements and thousands of simple white sticks dotting the landscape, marking the resting place of the city's defenders. Figure 1. THE OSLOBODENJE NEWSPAPER BUILDING. Source: SFOR Archives.

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Projections 4: Responding to Disaster: Trauma, Recovery, and Remembrance

Published on Dec 8, 2022

MIT DUSP

In a world of real and imagined danger in which we find ourselves, the process of trauma, recovery and remembrance has taken on new significance. While we do not address the events of September 11th 2001 directly, this volume of Projections certainly has its genesis in the struggle we have faced to rebuild, personally and professionally, in the months and years following that tragic morning. For me, the struggle to cope with disaster recovery began earlier, following my visit to Sarajevo in 2000 where I was part of a group re-designing the government center after its 1992-95 siege. Five years after the war ended, the scars of conflict were immediately present: buildings toppled, areas land mined, growing squatter settlements and thousands of simple white sticks dotting the landscape, marking the resting place of the city's defenders.