Speculating on the Role of Media Architecture in Post-disaster Rebuilding and Recovery: Insights from Architects and Interaction Designers
Berk Goksenin Tan, Oguzhan Ozcan

TL;DR
This paper explores how media architecture can support post-disaster rebuilding by fostering community, multispecies participation, and heritage preservation, based on empirical focus groups with designers and residents after the 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquake.
Contribution
It introduces a three-dimensional framework for media architecture in post-disaster housing, along with a co-speculative design process and ten innovative design ideas.
Findings
Media architecture facilitates social connections in post-disaster housing.
It enables multispecies participation and collective efforts.
It mediates heritage preservation and revival.
Abstract
In post-disaster contexts, design is not only about rebuilding structures but also about reimagining how architecture can become a communicative medium that supports recovery, resilience, and collective memory. While recent studies have expanded the understanding of media architecture from aesthetic urban screens to participatory civic infrastructures, there remains limited empirical research on its potential role in post-disaster contexts. In particular, opportunities exist to explore how architecture and interaction design might speculate on media architecture's role in rebuilding and recovery efforts for post-disaster permanent housing, especially when conceptualizing disasters as active agents that reshape design processes. Following to Kahramanmaras earthquake on February 6, 2023, we conducted two focus groups with architects and interaction designers in the case of Antakya,…
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Taxonomy
TopicsDisaster Management and Resilience · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
