Themes

Mapping

This theme emcompasses mulitple aspects of mapping in the context of flood risk management and communication. Projects under this theme include field mapping, mapathons on OpenStreetMap, analogue participatory mapping exercise, Blender software workshop, and creating building vulnerability maps.

Drones & 360 Degree Camera

This theme explores the use of drones and 360° camera to create products that can be used in flood risk analyses. In order to build capacity, introductory workshops to drones and 360° cameras for exposure data collection was carried out by participants from the Geoinformatics Center of the Asian Institute of Technology.

Nature-based Solutions

This theme includes projects focused on developing tools for educating different stakeholders on the complexity of urban flooding, and effectiveness of nature-based solutions. Flood risk analyses based on hypothetical landuse scenarios were also conducted for the Ping River Basin to demonstrate the potential of nature-based solutions.

Vulnerable Groups

Projects under this theme seek to understand the challenges and coping mechanisms of vulnerable groups — such as the elderly and hill-tribes — to the complex problem of urban flooding in Chiang Mai. Communication tools to overcome language barriers were also developed in the process.

Sensing

Projects under this theme focus on building and installing low-cost flood sensors. The projects were led by Paskorn Champasert and Autanan Wannachai from the OASYS Lab, Chiang Mai University.

User-centred design

The project under this theme involves producing a prototype for the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility website using a user-centered design approaches.

AI & Machine Learning

Projects under this theme are mainly focused on methods to provide general information and tools for practitioners coming from either machine learning or flood modelling disciplines. The development of data-driven models are also being discussed, aided by the acquisition of a high-spec Tensor Notebook.

Art & Science

Most projects under this theme focus on creating art pieces revolving around the theme of “Living with Water”. Participants were led through a five-day long workshop, with the aim of creating interactive art pieces, by Purin Phanichphant. These pieces were showcased at the Art and Science Exhibition at the end of the field lab. Other projects under this theme include the field lab zine and a 200s compilation on decolonization of disaster studies.

Risk Communications

This theme encompasses a variety of projects that revolve around effective communication of flood risk information, and information flows. Products of these projects came in the form of video interviews and oral histories, information ecosystem maps, and facilitated dialogue and serious games.