Canaan, Haiti – New City of Hope. People, Houses, and the Forces of Nature after the Earthquake in 2010

"Goudou goudou" is what Haitians call the earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people in Haiti in January 2010. As many are injured, more than 1.3 million homeless. The state is powerless and destitute, the "international community" does not keep up the promises made—alone, the population rebuilds its habitat: "Canaan"—a new city is being built at the foot of barren Mornes du Pensez-y-Bien. Planned as relief camp, Canaan develops by the seizure of hundreds of thousands in only six years to the sixth largest city of Haiti. Since 2012, Master’s students and PhD-Candidates at Technical University of Munich have been working on small scale landscape-based strategies and plans to improve living conditions—using modeling, scenarios, and extended research stays on-site. In Onaville, the easternmost part and neighborhood most threatened by natural disasters, they cooperate directly with residents—supported by the youth organization TECHO Haiti.     «

"Goudou goudou" is what Haitians call the earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people in Haiti in January 2010. As many are injured, more than 1.3 million homeless. The state is powerless and destitute, the "international community" does not keep up the promises made—alone, the population rebuilds its habitat: "Canaan"—a new city is being built at the foot of barren Mornes du Pensez-y-Bien. Planned as relief camp, Canaan develops by the seizure of hundreds of thousands in only six years to t...     »