Playful approaches to disaster preparedness with Chika Watanabe
UCL
Join the UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction monthly event celebrating UCL’s Bicentenary, featuring a talk by Dr Chika Watanabe on playful approaches to disaster preparedness.
Drawing on seven years of ethnographic research in Japan and Chile, her work explores how communities, officials and NGOs use games, imagination and creative methods to help people engage with uncertainty. And how communities can prepare for high‑impact disasters along the Ring of Fire.
Following the talk, an interdisciplinary panel from UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction — including experts in anthropology, history and earthquake geology — will discuss how creativity, culture and future‑thinking can reshape preparedness education and public engagement with risk.
This event is designed for students, researchers, practitioners. And is for anyone interested in disaster risk reduction, resilience, social sciences or innovative approaches to preparedness.