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Together Apart

Case Description The temporary art installation, ‘Together apart’, consisted of “375 coated mesh fabric ribbons stretched between the roofline of the Billund community building and the ground. Connected to the ground along an undulating line that curves in on itself, the ribbons create a series of cellular spaces.” The installation attempted to “capture the tension…

TULIP

Case Description With the strict regulations in place, people needed to sit, relax, promenade in a safe way. To do so, the architects from the ADHOC studio created ‘Tulip’, a temporary intervention in public space that afforded people to gather again; a place that offers an opportunity to meet, hang out or dine in groups.…

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Case Description The Foreign Policy design group designed a concept for the botanical garden of Singapore that creates opportunities for people to interact act a physical distance. The envisioned public art installation reframes ‘social distancing’ into ‘physical distancing’, by enabling people hanging out in the gardens to interact with one another. This is made possible…

Parc de la Distance

Case Description Studio Precht proposed a radical green space design for a vacant plot in Wien, responding to the social distancing measures that were in place at the time. Inspired by French baroque gardens and Japanese geometrical shapes, the garden would allow people to walk safely along circular routes in a 90-centimetre-wide path. In order…

Nomo Fomo bench

Case Description Because of Covid-related restrictions, people had difficulties to find opportunities to connect with each other as well as with nature in a safe way. With the benches Nomo Fomo, the designers from Studio Hai address this issue by opening public urban space to occasions of sharing while being closer to natural elements. The…

The Open Café

Case Description Due to the restrictions, in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel’s cultural and economic capital, all restaurants and bars were closed overnight and many locals started meeting each other outdoors. The Urban Design Agency Association Humankind and the architecture firm https://www.nadelroizin.com/ designed the “Open Café” to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.…

Urban Sun

Case Description In order to allow people to gather in times of pandemic after a period of isolation and frustration, the designers of Studio Roosegaarde developed a temporary solution to offer a clean (covid-free) space to meet and reconnect one to another. According to the studio, the technology used for the ‘Urban Sun’ can reduce…

Tools & Other Resources

During the research process, we had the opportunity to explore different perspectives on how to promote resilience in neighbourhoods and cities, which resulted in a variety of resources. Listed below, you will find academic and professional publications, as well as a series of webinars, where we were joined by experts to discuss the topic of designing for neighbourhood resilience while addressing social and ecological issues in an integral way.

Webinars

Designing for Neighborhood Resilience #1: From Covid crisis to post-Covid resilience

Designing for Neighborhood Resilience #1: From Covid crisis to post-Covid resilience

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Designing for Neighborhood Resilience #2: Neighborhood resilience in practice

Designing for Neighborhood Resilience #2: Neighborhood resilience in practice

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Designing for Neighborhood Resilience #3: Bridging the divide

Designing for Neighborhood Resilience #3: Bridging the divide

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EDRA | Building Resilient Neighborhoods in the Post-Covid City: Bridging the Social and Ecologial

EDRA | Building Resilient Neighborhoods in the Post-Covid City: Bridging the Social and Ecologial

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WUF11 | Mapping Resilient Communities: the Role of Public Space

WUF11 | Mapping Resilient Communities: the Role of Public Space

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Presentation at Shaping Resilient Communities International Conference

Presentation at Shaping Resilient Communities International Conference

Webinar

Publications

Human/Non-Human Public Spaces: Designing for resilient urban neighborhoods

Human/Non-Human Public Spaces: Designing for resilient urban neighborhoods

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Design Framework for Neighbourhood Resilience: Bridging human and other-than-human perspectives in urban design

Design Framework for Neighbourhood Resilience: Bridging human and other-than-human perspectives in urban design

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Public Spaces and Urban Resilience: state of affairs in Dutch cities and exploring human and non-human perspectives

Public Spaces and Urban Resilience: state of affairs in Dutch cities and exploring human and non-human perspectives

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Designing human / non-human public spaces for neighborhood resilience: Design Exploration 1 – Design charette for a resilient Holendrecht

Designing human / non-human public spaces for neighborhood resilience: Design Exploration 1 – Design charette for a resilient Holendrecht

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Designing human / non-human public spaces for neighborhood resilience: Design Exploration 2 – Participatory program ‘Voor Jou, Voor Mij’ in Osdorp

Designing human / non-human public spaces for neighborhood resilience: Design Exploration 2 – Participatory program ‘Voor Jou, Voor Mij’ in Osdorp

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Designing human / non-human public spaces for neighborhood resilience: Design Exploration 3 – Activating underused spaces for a resilient Diemen

Designing human / non-human public spaces for neighborhood resilience: Design Exploration 3 – Activating underused spaces for a resilient Diemen

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Adaptive Public Spaces: Exploring digital transition for social and environmental benefit

Adaptive Public Spaces: Exploring digital transition for social and environmental benefit

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Covid-19’s impact on public space: trends in Dutch cities as perceived by a Community of Practice

Covid-19’s impact on public space: trends in Dutch cities as perceived by a Community of Practice

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Design Framework for Neighbourhood Resilience: Combining human and other-than-human perspectives into an integrated approach

Design Framework for Neighbourhood Resilience: Combining human and other-than-human perspectives into an integrated approach

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Challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and design responses in public space: Towards strategies for more resilient post-Covid cities

Challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and design responses in public space: Towards strategies for more resilient post-Covid cities

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Covid-19 and its impact on public urban space in the Netherlands: Ongoing trends and looking ahead

Covid-19 and its impact on public urban space in the Netherlands: Ongoing trends and looking ahead

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Generating and disseminating intermediate-level knowledge on multiple levels of abstraction: An exploratory case in media architecture

Generating and disseminating intermediate-level knowledge on multiple levels of abstraction: An exploratory case in media architecture

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MAB20 | Media Architecture for neighborhood resilience

MAB20 | Media Architecture for neighborhood resilience

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