Design has the capability to flex and adapt according to new challenges. Design for Resilience will look at ways designers can share the tools and approach of design and build resilience for many, reducing an individual’s dependency on government or commerce. It will look at how people can evaluate risk and prepare in a new and uncertain world, and how governments can create resilience in their systems of food chains, protective equipment and access to medical and scientific expertise.
MRes Research:
Francesco Memo and Yurie Suzuki
“the quality of being able to return quickly to a previous good condition after problems”
(Cambridge Dictionary, 2020)
Resilience as an ecosystem: we consider resilience as huge ecosystem that implies the
relationship between stakeholders, security principles, people’s awareness and design ethics.
Resilience - Leadership Connections
Thanks to the use of design principles, methods and approaches (condensed in the “design ethics” concept), and through the sustainability key-point, resilience can be considered as a new kind of leadership.
5 Key Issues:
1) How design can help people being aware of their social and/or self resilience status?
2) How could we add value on people’s skills and how do we support them to be more resilient?
3) What can design do for resilience?
Do we have to design new specific solutions (product/service/system/idea) to increase people’s resilience or can we modify/interpret something already existing?
“design has the capability to flex and adapt according to new challenges,
how can we share the tools and approach of design to all and build resilience for many, reducing an individual’s dependency on government or commerce.”
(Design for Resilience - GC 2020 brief)
4) Is design resilient?
How can we proactively use design to prevent drastic/radical/unexpected events?
“Resilient design is the intentional design of buildings, landscapes,
communities, and regions in response to [...] vulnerabilities.”
(Resilient Design Institute - definition)
5) Does design see resilience to other areas?
In this interconnected world, do we have to design for a global or local resilience?
Palindrome approach
design for resilience - resilience - design for safety - safety (and vice versa)
The diagram has been intentionally designed with a palindrome approach: this means that
it can be read from the more specific theme of “design for resilience” to the wider “safety”
topic (passing through “resilience” and “design for safety”) and vice versa.
This approach helps the generation of several connections and links that don’t prevent you
to do anything: you can choose the path you feel more suitable for you and for the design process you are going to start.
Reading List
[1] Bouchard, G., (2013) Neoliberalism in Québec: the response of a small Nation under pressure - chapter 9 - in social resilience in the neoliberal era edited by Peter A. Hall & Michèle Lamont, pp 267-292. Available from DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139542425.016
[2] Bracke, S., (2016) Vulnerability and Resistance in Times of Resilience - chapter 3 in vulnerability in resistance edited by Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabsay.
[3] Hall, P.A. & Lamont, M., (2013) Social resilience in the neoliberal era, page 2
[4] Nadkarny, S. & Willis, P., (2020) Resilient Leadership: Learning from crisis. Published by The Resilience Shift Strategic Intelligence - World Economic Forum (2020) Global Issue - Peace and Resilience. Available from https://intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1G0X000006NvB0UAK?tab=publications [Accessed 22nd November 2020]
[5] Resilient Design Institute (n.d.) What is Resilient Design? Available from: https://www.
resilientdesign.org/defining-resilient-design/ [Accessed 22nd November 2020]
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