How will you spend your Spring Break? Consider a 1 week 'Challenge' to brainstorm how to rehouse the families displaced by the Tsunami. How would you tackle the immediate large-scale demands, the limited materials, the disrupted community and the overstressed government's capabilities? Can there be more than a tent??? Form a team and contribute!
Two afternoons will feature presentations from architects recently returned from Indonesia. Mentoring sessions throughout the week will help develop ideas. Advisors are professionals from Sri Landa and Indonesia, as well as from the local expert community. A presentation at the end of the week will identify promising ideas. Representatives of the winning team will be sent to Washington, D.C. to present their ideas to the Disaster Mitigation Office of the US Agency for International Development. Open to teams and guests throughout the MIT community. An event hosted by SIGUS.
