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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...
Martina Cutajar
Mar 15, 20238 min read
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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:...
Martina Cutajar
Sep 4, 20223 min read
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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...
Martina Cutajar
May 26, 20224 min read
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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...
Martina Cutajar
May 9, 20223 min read
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The Shelter Cluster
The Shelter Cluster is a global mechanism that coordinates humanitarian response to disasters and crises. The following case studies will...
Martina Cutajar
May 6, 20222 min read
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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...
Martina Cutajar
Mar 17, 20225 min read
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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...
Martina Cutajar
Mar 10, 20224 min read
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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...
Martina Cutajar
Mar 7, 20226 min read
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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...
Martina Cutajar
Mar 7, 20223 min read
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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...
Martina Cutajar
Mar 7, 20223 min read
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Wider meanings for Design & Development
Figures 1-3: Notes on wider meanings for Disaster, Design and Development When dealing with disasters, recovery and reconstruction...
Martina Cutajar
Mar 5, 20222 min read
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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...
Martina Cutajar
Mar 4, 20223 min read
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