Which is normally referred with a geographical location by the Latitude and longitude, and it also reflects through its material form and which is a physical features, whether is a hill architecture, whether it is coastal architecture, whether it is through its natural settings and the built environments. More importantly, the place is associated with the meanings and the values that the people or the communities invest in them so this is where the identity comes in.

So many geographers talk about place is a social construct, Doreen Massey talks about it is a social construct, and we actively make places and our ideas of place are products of the society in which we live.

A small example for the students to understand I hope many of you have seen the movie of Cast Away, where Tom Hanks played a role of a Korea person and he met with an accident in the flight while in the Korea flight. And he is a lonely survivor he finds himself in an island which an untouched island no one ever been to that island and the whole story is all about how he lives in that place for 4 years.

He lives here for 4 years and then one day he gets angry and he throws out that Wilson out. Then after 4 years he will again find his way back to home. That night when he throws Wilson out in his anger he again goes back and searches for Wilson so with both love and emotions you know play in a sequence and when he was travelling back to the mainlands in a small boat a huge hurricane comes and finally he loses his Wilson.

So here what I want to say here is, a man is attached with a lot of emotions, its values, 4 years that ball has given him a sense of being. That is where Sack talks about places cannot exist without us, but equally important we cannot exist without places. Like some of the post-disaster experience which where my journey have started. There is Latur earthquake on the right-hand side recovery and the Gujarat earthquake geodesic domes.

So, when we talk about the theoretical understanding of the place and space, one of the important understanding one has to look at Henry Lefebvre works the production of space. He says the space is a social product, and it offers a theoretical assemblages and tactics in which power, architecture, and also their associated agencies alter and potentially dissolve the centrality of space in the depoliticized arena of post-disaster recovery.

So that is where I can just briefly talk about what Lefebvre talks about. Lefebvre talks about 3 aspects, one is conceived space, lived space, perceived space. Conceived space which actually talks about the intellect and here it is also a space that has been conceptualized or conceived by planners, scientist which talks about the representations of the space, and these are based on certain visions on certain principles developed by decision-makers.

And, perceived space; the second form which he talks about the space of spatial practice where the movement and the interaction takes place, and the networks develop and materialize, this is where the daily routines and the individual level, as well as the networks, keep building on it is not only at an individual but also at the collective orders.

So the lived space which is an unconscious and nonverbal direct relations of humans to space which is also a form of representational space. It is lived through various associations through schemata through also measures through various symbolic aspects and this kind of understanding where we have the intellect which conceives this, the instincts which develops this networks and then the intuitions, how it is understood through various images and the symbolic aspects.

This whole lecture is developed based on one of the important article by Camillo Boano and William Hunter who actually developed an article ‘architecture at risk’ the ambivalent nature of the post-disaster recovery. So I am going to describe about a brief aspects which described from a theoretical perspective along with various understanding of what I have understood about that project with various examples.