Ms Ayu Putu Utari Parthami Lestari (she/her)
School of Architecture and Landscape
PhD Research Student
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School of Architecture and Landscape
Arts Tower
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
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Ayu holds a Bachelor’s degree from Universitas Udayana and a Master’s from Institut Teknologi Bandung, specializing in Housing and Settlement. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Professor Renata Tyszczuk and Dr. Tanzil Shafique. Her research focuses on the role of indigenous knowledge in promoting Build Back Safer practices for natural disaster victims in the Java-Bali region. With expertise in sustainable architecture, temporary housing for disaster victims, and preserving Balinese local housing, Ayu has also lectured at Universitas Ngurah Rai and contributed to various architectural design projects in Bali. A recipient of the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency's scholarship and several research grants, she has published work on evacuation architecture and refugee design in the context of the Mount Agung eruption.
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Project Title
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES' KNOWLEDGE IN PROMOTING BUILD BACK SAFER FOR NATURAL DISASTER VICTIMS Case Study: Java-Bali Region
Project outline:
People experience natural disasters in different ways. Their behavior is also affected by the various political views, environmental, social, cultural, and economic conditions where they live, and the quality and condition of the environment itself. It can help increase preparing, coping with, responding to, and recovering from disasters. Most affected families rebuild their homes in many countries without external support. It then creates a new term, "self-recovery," which refers to how a disaster-affected household builds or rebuilds its home on its own or through local builders. Self-recovery is an essential and cost-effective approach to creating more resilient homes because it can increase the dignity and self-confidence of the affected by living in their homes. However, humanitarian or state officials and donors have not yet understood the term. There was limited knowledge of reconstruction dynamics when it had to be done without proper technical support but by substantive indigenous knowledge, beliefs, traditions, or communities. On the other hand, how can they promote self-recovery, and how should the state help make reconstruction safer? The writing tries to understand how people in the affected areas built new homes that should be more resilient than before with their indigenous knowledge. The qualitative research methodology will include fieldwork in Java and Bali between 2025 and 2026.
Primary Supervisor
Professor Renata Tyszczuk MA, Dip Arch, MPhil, PhD
Co-supervisors
Dr Tanzil Shafique B.Arch, M.Arch, PhD, FHEA
Date Started
01/10/2024