Catharina Depari

Catharina Depari is a Ph.D. student in the Urban Design and Planning’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program and works as a lecturer at the Department of Architecture of Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her research interests evolve around community resilience and hazards mitigations. She began research in this area in 2007 for her master’s thesis and continued to involve in some hazard research and planning projects such as UGM-Kobe University’s post-earthquake housing research in Nglepen village, earthquake preparedness program for elementary school students in Yogyakarta, emergency facilities planning for Mt. Merapi villagers after the 2010 eruption, UGM and Purdue University’s global design studio for the revitalization of Old Algiers District New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and the UW’s community based planning for Westport’s comprehensive city plan. As a planner, she believes that understanding community with their values will help researchers to create a self-reliant and resilient community to disasters. Her working dissertation attempts to link hazards with the contemporary issues of displacement, place attachment, and risk perceptions of disaster-prone community in Mount Merapi’s villages.