DAtE (Design Against the Elements)

A global architectural design competition meant to find a solution to the problems presented by climate change. http://www.designagainsttheelements.org/

Illac Diaz, organizer of DAtE (Design Against the Elements)

1. Survivability is moving away from post-disaster. The poorest are the most vulnerable and the least to adapt.
2. We will be living in a flooding environment.
3. Designers can contain the solution
4. Philippines has a Defeatist culture
5. We cannot create a BLISS housing anymore because when it sinks it becomes dependent to donations.
6. Climate change is something that humanity has to live with.
7. Government agencies just plant trees to combat these calamities when it takes 7 years to grow.
8. We have to build a canal in the next 25 years when climate change is already here now
9. There is no excuse for people to die
10. If developed countries say, low carbon society, we should not follow that, we should have a zero climate casualty society.
11. Teach architects to design a climate challenged world
12. The poorest of the poor can have green architecture that entails their survival.
13. The worst thing to do is do nothing
14. The manifestation of climate change is that 80% of the city went down in water.
15. Build a sample, once the residents say they live better then people will follow
16. We have to build better or else we will put people at risk
17. When this yearly storms are livable then other communities will follow
18. On low cost-housing: A lot of our designs are from the 1960s where it was a time that intense flooding is not a regular course.
19. Thw worst thing to do is grab the people who are affected and throw them to a rural barangay without any kind of food security or job and hand them P7,000 which is a social injustice
20. Climate change is happening accross boarders so all these world aids cannot just give them in bulk
21. Enough reacting after storm, people has to work on the problem well before the storm hits