In a disaster situation creating fast, simple, permanent housing is often given priority over how housing is built. When non-local relief organisations design, plan or build housing they bring ideas about what housing is and how it should look and feel to the locale. They also bring ideas about what people want and need, and what is best for them. The resulting post-disaster houses can sometimes be easily identified as ‘belonging to’ a certain relief organisation. Such a transformation of the visual landscape is evident in Aceh. In a post-disaster situation the impact of non-locals building housing and the introduction of different ideas about the use, position and purpose of housing cannot be understated. As a student researcher I examine the post-disaster housing process in one community in Aceh Besar, Indonesia. I will discuss how newly built houses are affecting people’s ability to resume daily life and how people are responding to such housing following the devastation of the 2004 Asian Tsunami in Aceh.
History
Publication title
School of Geography & Environmental Studies Conference Abstracts 2020
Editors
Kate Boden
Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences
Publisher
School of Geography & Environmental Studies
Place of publication
Hobart, Tasmania
Event title
School of Geography & Environmental Studies Conference, 2010