This panel discussion emerges from the Columbia Global Center in Istanbul’s Global Resilience Fund project “Building Back Better in Hatay: Co-Designing a Multi-Stakeholder, Multi-Risk Informed Urban Development Approach”. Based on our ongoing work in the Hatay region, the aim is to have a discussion around what we have learned so far about resilience from the rebuilding after the devastating earthquake in Turkiye on February 6, 2023. We also hope to strengthen our collaborations in support of the region which faces multiple ongoing risks including from climate change.

APRIL 23, 2025, 

16.00-18.00 – Columbia University, Forum Room 301

AGENDA

16.00 – 17.00

Ece Doğramacı 

(BBB in Hatay Project Researcher; Student, Barnard College) (Moderator):

Welcome and review of program

Jacqueline Klopp (BBB in Hatay Project PI, Director and Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Columbia University)

Ebru Gencer (BBB in Hatay Project Co-PI, Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University),

Andrew Kruzckiewicz (BBB in Hatay Project Co-PI, Senior Staff Researcher, Columbia Climate School): Columbia Resilience Fund Projects and BBB in Hatay Project

Elif Sakallı (BBB in Hatay Project Researcher; Student, Columbia College, resident of Hatay): Learnings from the Project

Senem Deviren (Professor, Head of Department of Architecture, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University), Melodi Çiftçi (Erasmus Coordinator, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University), and Benan Dönmez and Emir Çekmecelioğlu (Assistant Professors, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University) (Virtual): Hatay Mustafa Kemal University’s projects after the 2023 earthquake

Ali C. Höcek (Principal, AC Höcek Architecture (ACHA); Adjunct Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of NY (CCNY); Co-Founder, CARRRE – Collective Action for Readiness, Recovery, and Resilience) and Sarwat Yunus (Senior Project Manager, ACHA; Student, Sustainability, CCNY): ACHA and CARRRE projects in Southeastern Turkey, Hatay, and NYC, Urban Resilience Parks

17.00 – 17.20

Q& A and discussion on ways to work together and move forward

17.20-18.00

Networking