One chapter, one photo – part 2

The photographs selected for "Bavarity" are featured in color in both the digital and print editions of the book. Chapter two deals with "space as crisis" and includes an image from the recovery and reconstruction process in Deggendorf after the 2013 floods. I took the photo in 2014. "Space as crisis" in intended to provide architects, urban designers, urban planners and landscape architects with an interdisciplinary understanding of crises and disasters. Such an understanding is aimed at providing a knowledge base for the creation of sustainable and resilient means of adaptation to future crises and disasters. One poignant example is the intersection between building and dwelling, where it is necessary to transcend off-the-shelf ideas and products. Correspondingly, the individual, socially and psychologically informed perception of risk plays an important role in terms of how people respond to crises. This is also relevant to a culture of remembrance and the symbolic character and quality of buildings. It is indispensable to deliberate on planning and preparedness for crises in urban as well as rural regions and propose related solutions that are socially adequate and environmentally friendly. Based on these positions, I discuss the risks that so-called flood protection measures actually contribute to – and their impact on vulnerable population groups. The time is now to move past silo mentalities and opinion leadership that still hold back all involved disciplines.

The chapter on space as crisis was published in the book "Bavarity – Coping with Crisis in the Space of Building Culture" and is available from Springer Spektrum and all booksellers.