Meat Production and Consumption as a Sustainability Issue
This text is an excerpt from a Master's based project (with RMIT) that tackled a chosen sustainability issue. This particular case...
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Martina Cutajar
- Sep 4, 2022
- 3 min
The One-World World
In this post, I will talk about some reflections that arose out of reading Escobar's work (2016) titled: Thinking-Feeling with the Earth:...
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Martina Cutajar
- May 26, 2022
- 4 min
The intercultural in architectural design practices
In this discussion, we consider the film Spirited Away (Miyasaki, 2001) and Low's (2015) The sensuous city: Sensory methodologies in...
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Martina Cutajar
- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
The IKEA Better Shelter: Successes and criticisms
The Better Shelter is an initiative supported by the IKEA Foundation and the UNHCR. It is often referred to as the IKEA shelter. The...
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Martina Cutajar
- May 6, 2022
- 2 min
The Shelter Cluster
The Shelter Cluster is a global mechanism that coordinates humanitarian response to disasters and crises. The following case studies will...
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Martina Cutajar
- Mar 17, 2022
- 5 min
More-than-human Cosmologies and Embodied Knowledges
This post comprises reflections and learnings from a number of materials and topics explored through the Intercultural. The materials...
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Martina Cutajar
- Mar 10, 2022
- 4 min
Land Use Planning for Disaster Resilience
This post has to do with how Urban Planning can contribute towards Disaster Risk Reduction. In particular, this discussion will focus on...
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Martina Cutajar
- Mar 7, 2022
- 6 min
Locating the Self
In the second week of learning about Intercultural Knowledge and Practices in the first semester of my MoDDD course, a few concepts stood...
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Martina Cutajar
- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
A River with a City Problem
In Margaret Cook’s book: A River with a City Problem, the first thing that stands out about the work is how the tables are turned on the...
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Martina Cutajar
- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
Apathy and Disaster Risk Reduction
In 2015, the Productivity Commission reported that for every $100 spent on disaster management in Australia, only $3 is spent on disaster...
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Martina Cutajar
- Mar 5, 2022
- 2 min
Wider meanings for Design & Development
Figures 1-3: Notes on wider meanings for Disaster, Design and Development When dealing with disasters, recovery and reconstruction...
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Martina Cutajar
- Mar 4, 2022
- 3 min
The Disaster Management Cycle – Is it really a cycle?
Figure 1: The Disaster Management Cycle. Source/Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The Disaster Management Cycle is a...
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