ChallengeWith 1.8 million people coming in San Francisco everyday, 800,000 people staying overnight, and a 30-year overdue for a major earthquake in the Bay Area; there is an urgency for preparedness in order to reduce the high risk of damage.
ConceptSF120 aims at creating a more resilient community against earthquakes in the Bay Area. The service targets three main topics: Education, Preparedness, and Connectedness.
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Early in June 2018, The San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) offered a free Neighborhood Emergency Response Training (NERT) program at CCA.
The goal of NERT is to give civilian volunteers a higher level of basic skills in firefighting, search and rescue, disaster medicine and preparedness. As I've never experienced any earthquake before, I took the training to learn more and be prepared. |
The information and facts I learned during the training were my main motivation to work on this project and share my knowledge with the people around me, so they can also be a little bit more prepared.
This training also served me as an immersive research on the topic, where I was able to learn in an active way about the rescue and survival techniques, as well as be prepared and build by survival kit. |
In order to better understand the challenge and the bigger system, I studied the access to information, the access to help and rescue, and the current resiliency plan of the City and County of San Francisco.
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In order to better understand the user's perspective, I sent out a survey and conducted six interviews with people who have been living in the Bay Area at different stages of their life (born and raised, living here for 10+ years, recently moved).
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