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Disaster Thread
ReplyDeleteBy: Nandja and Harish
Any serious disruption to the functioning of a community and city at any scale can be traced
back due to Disasters which lead to human, material, economic and environmental losses
and impacts. It changes the image of environment (both man-made and natural) in that
particular time and space and lives as an episodic memory in our conscious.
The effect of disaster can be immediate and localized but it is often widespread and could
last for long period of time which has high degree of association value to humans and their
everyday lives. For instance, the image of the black cloud of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
retained in our memory for over four decades.
The disaster is precursor to transformation where people either endure or let the
transformation take over. What existed prior to a disaster can also be mined back by people
in some cases. For instance, People in Patan Square, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal were able
to restore their Durbar square due to pre recorded documentation and living memory of the
structures in their conscious.
Disaster is an important tool to understand the transformation of various segments of the
built and Un-built fabric of our world which can give an idea of advancement of society by
bearing all the loss came across it.
Post disaster, there might be shift in perception towards betterment of their quality of life.
Human excellence and abilities have always challenged/ prolonged and even mitigated
disasters. While post-traumatic stress lingers on, change remains a permanent constant
throughout the phases of post disaster transformative scenarios.