16:00 rC1 Transferring resilienCe

Students: Shuting Huan, Yi Song, Yuhan Xu.

Design: Hadin Charbel and Déborah López Lobato

Technical: Zehao Quin and Vicente Sánchez

Theory: Albert Brenchat - Aguilar

With the change of local climate conditions comes risk of losing local forms of knowledge accrued over generations and an increased pressure on already vulnerable communities. Transferring Resilience aims to decentralise and enable information transfer of traditional knowledge under architectural and ecological terms alike, performing as an archive that can be accessed and adapted by anyone around the world through a process of gamification.

The project takes its initial steps by addressing the pressing issue of landslide disasters in the village of Vent, situated in the remote Ötztal valley of Austria, which poses imminent risk to the town physically as well as its tourism, its primary source of income. By transferring the corresponding traditional skills, such as landslide management and community relocation, the town’s inhabitants both train and execute the various phases of their redevelopment strategy, adjusting the landscape and re-inventing their local architecture.