These sessions are part of our response to the unprecedented bush fires of 2019/2020. They are also applicable to other situations, disasters or extreme events causing trauma.
They form a set with the Building Back Better seminar which addresses interpersonal communication and process management between architect and client after a traumatic event. It also explores how disasters disrupt many aspects of community life, warping individual perspectives and collective needs.
Themes covered are:
Presenter: Rob Gordon
1 Formal CPD Point
Learning outcomes
Presenter: Jenny Donovan
1 Formal CPD Point
Learning outcomes
Rob Gordon PhD is a clinical psychologist who conducts a private psychotherapy practice in Box Hill Victoria. He has specialism in treatment of trauma and recovery of communities from disasters. He commenced disaster work in 1983 in the Ash Wednesday Bush-fires and has observed many communities in many different types of natural and human caused events, ranging from bush-fires, floods, cyclones, earthquakes, the Queen Street and Pt Arthur Shootings, The Bali bombing, East Asia Tsunami, Christchurch Earthquake. He has researched the psychological effects of the stresses that follow personal and community trauma and their effects on communication and decision making.
Jenny Donovan is the principal of Melbourne urban design practice Inclusive Design, Sessional international expert in placemaking for UN Habitat and sessional lecturer at La Trobe University. Her work focuses on creating places that facilitate people to meet their needs, thrive and fulfil their potential. Her work spans urban and landscape design and neighbourhood renewal in Australia, the UK and Ireland and post conflict and post disaster reconstruction in Montenegro, Palestine, Ireland, Ethiopia, Kosovo and Sri Lanka.
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
