Guest online talk: Documenting domestic built heritage at risk in Gujarat, India. From Ahmedabad to Bela

On the 5th of March 2025, Dr Bernadette Devilat gave a guest lecture as part of the Post Office Cultures collection. Open to all. This talk presented her previous experience documenting heritage areas affected by earthquakes in Chile as an introduction, followed by two research projects aimed at documenting domestic built heritage at risk of earthquakes inContinue reading “Guest online talk: Documenting domestic built heritage at risk in Gujarat, India. From Ahmedabad to Bela”

Phase 3- Field work 3 at Bela

We have carried out another fieldwork at Bela, this time with students from CEPT University, as part of their winter school, and with members of the team from the University of Nottingham, GIDM, CHC CRDF and the Hunnarshala Foundation. On the first day, we carried out a reconnaissance walk of the village, visiting the structuresContinue reading “Phase 3- Field work 3 at Bela”

Phase 3- Field work 2 at Bela

Members of our local research team, Shubham Daberao, from the Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM), and Aditya Singh, from the Hunnarshala Foundation, visited Bela at the end of October 2023 for Phase 3 of this project. The site visit aimed to build upon the current development of a Disaster Risk Management Plan through strengtheningContinue reading “Phase 3- Field work 2 at Bela”

Fieldwork 2 in Bela – બેલામાંફિલ્ડવર્ક

On the 6th and 7th of April, another visit to the case study, Bela, was carried out. A visual damage assessment, establishing the different levels of damage for each building, was done over a plan by members of the research team — Dr Bernadette Devilat (NTU) and Aditya Singh (Hunnarshala Foundation ), focusing only onContinue reading “Fieldwork 2 in Bela – બેલામાંફિલ્ડવર્ક”