Turkey and Syria After the Earthquakes
Panel #5: "Hatay Planning Center Report"
Salt Beyoğlu, Online
February 22, 2024 17.00
Antakya, Turkey, 2024 (Photo: Ingrid Woudwijk)
Walk-in Cinema and Online
Turkey and Syria After the Earthquakes is a series of panel discussions curated by Collective Action for Readiness, Recovery, and Resilience (CARRRE), a collective of US-based Turkish-American architects and academics, to provide an international platform for learning, debate, and actionable projects.
“Hatay Planning Center Report” is the fifth panel in CARRRE’s discussion series. In the aftermath of the earthquakes, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality joined with the Hatay Metropolitan Municipality to form the Hatay Planning Center to address the recovery and reconstruction processes in Hatay, one of the provinces most damaged by the earthquakes. The report examines the challenges and opportunities that arise in connection with the long-term, municipal-level planning initiatives and resilient rebuilding of cities and communities, with input from administrations, universities, local and international institutions, experts, non-governmental bodies, volunteers, and most importantly, the people of Hatay. The expert panelists will address post-disaster planning strategies and building techniques, engineering seismology, and hazard assessment in response to the report, and focus on alternative approaches developed for Turkey and other countries. Key topics include the interplay between natural disasters and sustainable development, long-term post-earthquake planning guidelines and methodologies, sustainable urban and economic development in communities, and concepts of seismic evaluation, design, and retrofit of existing buildings and infrastructure in regions of repetitive earthquakes.
Organized by AIA New York | Center for Architecture Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee and Collective Action for Readiness, Recovery, and Resilience (CARRRE) in collaboration with Salt, this free-admission program is open to everyone. The panel will be held in English and Turkish and simultaneous translation to both languages will be available online. Please register here for online participation. No registration is required to attend the panel in the Walk-in Cinema.
Speakers (Hatay Planning Center Presentation):
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Beyza Taşkın, Structural Engineer; Istanbul Technical University Department of Civil Engineering
Prof. Dr. Okan Tüysüz, Geological Engineer; Advisor in the oil and energy industry and research professional in tectonics; Emeritus Professor, Istanbul Technical University Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Prof. Dr. Himmet Karaman, Geomatics Engineer; skilled in Disaster Management, Resilience, ArcGIS, Spatial Analysis, Land Surveying, and Earthquake Engineering; Istanbul Technical University Department of Geomatics Engineering
Gürkan Akgün, Deputy Secretary-General and Head of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Department of Housing and Urbanization
Panelists:
Dr. Şafak Arslantürkoglu, Structural Engineer; Staff of Professorship for Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, ETH Zürich
Dr. Nikola Blagojevic, Civil Engineer; Staff of Professorship for Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, ETH Zürich; Developer, iRe-CoDeS framework for probabilistic resilience-based design of the built environment
Maria Carrizosa, Architect and Senior Urban Planner; Climate Resilience Expert, Miyamoto International; Co-Founder, urbanSEED, interdisciplinary design and planning action tank, and BUILDING LOCAL, an organization dedicated to the aesthetic and tectonic study of local building practices
Dr. Yun Fu, Architect and Design Critic; Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Partner, Semester Studio (recipient of the 2020 Rome Prize)
Maulin Mehta, New York Director, Regional Plan Association
Turkey and Syria After the Earthquakes is a series of panel discussions curated by Collective Action for Readiness, Recovery, and Resilience (CARRRE), a collective of US-based Turkish-American architects and academics, to provide an international platform for learning, debate, and actionable projects.
“Hatay Planning Center Report” is the fifth panel in CARRRE’s discussion series. In the aftermath of the earthquakes, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality joined with the Hatay Metropolitan Municipality to form the Hatay Planning Center to address the recovery and reconstruction processes in Hatay, one of the provinces most damaged by the earthquakes. The report examines the challenges and opportunities that arise in connection with the long-term, municipal-level planning initiatives and resilient rebuilding of cities and communities, with input from administrations, universities, local and international institutions, experts, non-governmental bodies, volunteers, and most importantly, the people of Hatay. The expert panelists will address post-disaster planning strategies and building techniques, engineering seismology, and hazard assessment in response to the report, and focus on alternative approaches developed for Turkey and other countries. Key topics include the interplay between natural disasters and sustainable development, long-term post-earthquake planning guidelines and methodologies, sustainable urban and economic development in communities, and concepts of seismic evaluation, design, and retrofit of existing buildings and infrastructure in regions of repetitive earthquakes.
Organized by AIA New York | Center for Architecture Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee and Collective Action for Readiness, Recovery, and Resilience (CARRRE) in collaboration with Salt, this free-admission program is open to everyone. The panel will be held in English and Turkish and simultaneous translation to both languages will be available online. Please register here for online participation. No registration is required to attend the panel in the Walk-in Cinema.
Speakers (Hatay Planning Center Presentation):
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Beyza Taşkın, Structural Engineer; Istanbul Technical University Department of Civil Engineering
Prof. Dr. Okan Tüysüz, Geological Engineer; Advisor in the oil and energy industry and research professional in tectonics; Emeritus Professor, Istanbul Technical University Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Prof. Dr. Himmet Karaman, Geomatics Engineer; skilled in Disaster Management, Resilience, ArcGIS, Spatial Analysis, Land Surveying, and Earthquake Engineering; Istanbul Technical University Department of Geomatics Engineering
Gürkan Akgün, Deputy Secretary-General and Head of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Department of Housing and Urbanization
Panelists:
Dr. Şafak Arslantürkoglu, Structural Engineer; Staff of Professorship for Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, ETH Zürich
Dr. Nikola Blagojevic, Civil Engineer; Staff of Professorship for Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, ETH Zürich; Developer, iRe-CoDeS framework for probabilistic resilience-based design of the built environment
Maria Carrizosa, Architect and Senior Urban Planner; Climate Resilience Expert, Miyamoto International; Co-Founder, urbanSEED, interdisciplinary design and planning action tank, and BUILDING LOCAL, an organization dedicated to the aesthetic and tectonic study of local building practices
Dr. Yun Fu, Architect and Design Critic; Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Partner, Semester Studio (recipient of the 2020 Rome Prize)
Maulin Mehta, New York Director, Regional Plan Association
