International Workshop on

Building Disaster Resilient Culture[1]　

 through Education for Sustainable Futures

Interdisciplinarity, Higher Education, Communities, and Resilience

13:00-16:00, March 12, 2026

Purpose

The overall purpose of the workshop is to explore how disaster-resilient culture can be built and sustained through education across the life course through interdisciplinary and partnership-based approaches, with particular attention to higher education and community. The specific objectives are to:

• Develop shared interdisciplinary understandings of disaster-resilient culture and its core dimensions.
• Clarify the role of higher education in cultivating discipline-specific and cross-disciplinary competencies for disaster culture.
•  Identify innovative and effective educational strategies that integrate disaster culture with sustainability and resilience agendas.
• Examine how communities function as learning spaces for disaster-related knowledge, memory, and practice.
• Explore how learning cities contribute to societal resilience and sustainability.
• Strengthen partnerships among universities, municipalities, communities, and international organizations.

国際ワークショップ
持続可能な未来のための教育を通じた災害レジリエント文化の構築

学際性・高等教育・コミュニティ・レジリエンス

2026年3月12日　13:00–16:00

 

目的

本ワークショップの目的は、学際的アプローチとパートナーシップに基づき、ライフコース全体にわたる教育を通じて災害レジリエント文化を構築・維持する方法を探究することである。特に高等教育と地域社会に焦点を当てる。具体的には次を目指す。

• 災害レジリエント文化の学際的理解を共有する
• 高等教育の役割を明確化する
• 持続可能性とレジリエンスを統合した教育戦略を検討する
• コミュニティを学習空間として捉える
• ラーニングシティの役割を検討する
• 大学・自治体・地域社会・国際機関の連携を強化する

 

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[1] In Sendai, the local government uses the Japanese expression “disaster culture,” which refers to a form of social culture that acknowledges disasters as recurring phenomena and cultivates the knowledge, skills, and practices necessary to cope with and overcome them. In this workshop, we aim to establish a definition of “disaster-resilient culture” by integrating diverse expressions from different societies and contexts.