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Design for disaster preparedness: A self-sustained communication network in earthquake scenarios

Giray, Çep
Master thesis
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2021
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Abstract
Design solution I am proposing here consists of an application interface

for the disaster victims and an underlying communication network

solution that can self-sustain by building a mesh network between the

mobile devices that are in the disaster area. This new network comes

into play when the existing internet or GSM network fails.

Aim of this project is to strengthen the communication between

the citizens themselves as well as between the citizens and the

governments civil defense organizations.

I was inspired to work on this topic as my home country, Turkey, is

prone to earthquakes and has suffered multiple disasters in the past.

Personally, I have great motivation to introduce design solutions in the

area of natural disasters because I believe there is great potential to

improve, and every step is important in the way to create a prepared

society, social systems and governments.

Project begins with the research question on how to sustain the

communication network in the case of a natural disaster.

Initial research consists of reading through literature, news sources, and

internet sources of government organizations. This is to understand

the risks, nature of an earthquake scenario, and how different systems

in a city interacts with each other. Initial research is combined with

Gigamapping method to create a gigamap of the earthquake

scenario. Consisting of before, during the disaster and the situation

after.

Research part has multiple additional categories as well; reading on

existing technologies to understand how some communication systems

work and going through social media websites of a selected time

frame.

The research was followed by interviews. I used the initial gigamap as

a reference during the interviews to make it easy for the attendants

to visualize and propose solutions. Those solutions and then used to

generate first concepts and follow up interviews were used to get

feedback on the concepts.

The final design solution was shaped after the feedback sessions.

Materials used in this project was mainly limited to digital, this is due to

nature of the project as well as the global pandemic that was taking

place while this project were in progress. Interviews were held through

video and audio calls, also screen-sharing and digital white-board

were used.

I think this project has an advantage of timing, digitalization is very on

demand currently and I believe the design solution explored here has

the potential to attract attention of the right organizations.
Publisher
OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet
Series
MAPD;2021

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