NEWS / MESSY RESILIENT?
Workshop
Messy Resilient? Speakers
20-22 September 2026
Department of Architecture, 4 Architecture Dr, #03-01, Singapore 117566, National University of Singapore
Workshop Convener: Jeff HOU jhou@nus.edu.sg
Research Assistant: CHEE Qian Ning qianning.c@nus.edu.sg
Daniel B. ABRAMSON
Presenter • Panarchic Planning: How Place-based Communities Contribute to Social-Ecological Resilience Across Scales
University of Washington
Chaewon AHN
Presenter • Messy Knowledge, Ordered Infrastructure: Community Climate Adaptation on Semarang’s Coast
National University of Singapore
Kristine AQUINO
Presenter • Urban Liminality, Resilience and Becoming: Migrant Volleyball in Singapore’s Interstitial Urbanism
University of Technology Sydney
Rachel BERNEY
Presenter • From Redlining to Resilience: The Nehemiah Initiative and the Politics of Interstitial Adaptation in Seattle
University of Washington, Seatlle
Manish CHALANA
Presenter • Messy Urbanism 2.0: Urban Informality as Resilience in Seattle, WA
University of Washington, Seatlle
Kenya ENDO
Presenter • Mapping Unevenness—How the Material Infrastructure of Water Shapes Post-Disaster Communities in Tacloban City, Philippines
The University of Tokyo
Herlily
Presenter • Claiming Interstitial Spaces: Interrogating dwelling / working places through the struggle of Rasdullah
Universitas Indonesia
Hsu Lai Yee
Presenter • Resilience as Revolution: Subaltern Agency among the Urban Poor and Disenfranchised
Bedar Social Development Group
Daniela HURTARTE
Presenter • From Local Knowledge to Climate Action: Lessons from Participatory Planning in Vietnam
University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City; Institute of Smart City & Management
Elizabeth MALY
Presenter • Dirt-y resilience: growing from the ground up after Japan’s 3.11 disaster
Tohoku University; International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS)
Iderlina MATEO-BABIANO
Presenter • Messy islandness in the context of a changing climate: A feminist exploration of Dawahon (Leyte, Philippines)
University of Melbourne
Naw Eu Eu Htwe
Presenter • Resilience as Revolution: Subaltern Agency among the Urban Poor and Disenfranchised
Bedar Social Development Group
Saw Keh Zer
Presenter • Resilience as Revolution: Subaltern Agency among the Urban Poor and Disenfranchised
Bedar Social Development Group
Selvaraj VELAYUTHANM
Presenter • Urban Liminality, Resilience and Becoming: Migrant Volleyball in Singapore’s Interstitial Urbanism
Macquarie Univesity
Amanda WISE
Presenter • Urban Liminality, Resilience and Becoming: Migrant Volleyball in Singapore’s Interstitial Urbanism
University of Technology, Sydney