Exhibit to allow visitors to pick up tips on disaster preparedness

In a country commonly frequented by typhoons and other natural calamities, it is important to develop a sound and efficient disaster preparedness plan.

Such is the aim of a month-long exhibit to be held at the Ayala Museum—to present disaster preparedness, anti-disaster design, and recovery manuals from various experts in countries in Asia that could serve as guides for the government, private organizations, and even individuals in coming up with their own manuals suitable to their situation.

“The exhibition is an opportunity for visitors to make their own disaster preparedness manuals, based on the presented projects, as well as for the audience to hear stories and expertise from overseas creators,” the Japan Foundation Manila,serving as the museum's partner for the exhibit, said in a press statement.

The exhibit on the Earth Manual Project will open at the third floor gallery of the Ayala Museum on November 8 and will run until December 7.

The exhibit will feature 11 disaster manual projects developed by experts that focus on procedures and designs against earthquake, typhoon and flood.

"Each exhibit booth itself offers the visitor a ‘manual’ page with its particular activity neatly summarized. You pick up the pages that especially interest you and compile them to make your own disaster preparedness manual," says the project website.

The following are the projects to be exhibited at the Ayala Museum:
 

• Iza! Kaeru Caravan! by NPO Plus Arts (Japan)
• Jishin ITSUMO Project and Red Bear Survival Camp by NPO Plus Arts (Japan)
• Design for Flood by Thailand Creative and Design Center (Thailand)
• Climate School Project by Dakila Foundation (Philippines)
• The Filipino Spirit is Waterproof by Ayala Museum (Philippines)
• Paper Partition System by Shigeru Ban (Japan)
• RooSuFlood: Knowledge to Fight Flood by RooSuFlood (Thailand)
• Lost Homes Model Restoration Project by Osamu Tsukihashi (Japan)
• Core House: Extensive Live Post Earthquake by Ikaputra (Indonesia)
• Floating Wombs: A healing project through the arts – heARTS by Alma Quinto (Philippines)
• Forms of Recollection by Plus63 Design Co. (Philippines).

Talks on disaster reduction and preparedness are also slated on the first two Sundays of November with some of the exhibitors as speakers: Tsukihashi of Lost Homes Model Restoration Project on November 8; and Nagata of NPO Plus Arts, Vuttikorn of Club Creative Co. Ltd, and Dan Matutina of Plus63 Design Co. on November 15.

The Earth Manual Project is a traveling exhibition that started in Kobe, Japan last year. Twenty-three projects from different countries in Asia centered on disaster risk reduction and post disaster relief and recovery were showcased.

After its Manila run, the Earth Manual Project exhibit will also be held in Legazpi City, Albay and Bohol in the first quarter of 2015. — Elizabeth Marcelo/BM, GMA News

The Ayala Museum on Makati Avenue, Greenbelt Park, Makati City is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday.

For more details about the Earth Manual Project exhibit contact the Japan Foundation, Manila at 8116155 to 58 or arts@jfmo.org.ph.