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Tree-covered coronavirus memorial

Case Description Italian architect Angelo Renna suggested a unique way to commemorate the people in Italy that lost their lives during the Covid-19 pandemic. The main idea was to save the San Siro football stadium in Milan from demolition, and turn it into a public memorial. By demolishing the roof, removing the seating, and creating…

Breathing Pavilion

Case Description The Breathing Pavilion, designed by artist Ekene Iljeoma, is a circle consisting of illuminated inflatable columns. The brightness of these column changes in a pulsing rhythm, inviting visitors to synchronize their breath. Located on a square of Brooklyn’s Cultural District, New York, the artistic installation invites people to “attune themselves to a shared…

Dear Heroes

Case Description The ‘Dear Heroes’ project projected messages of “love, kindness, gratitude & hope” on the external wall of the Mater Hospital, for frontline workers to read. The system collected messages by the public shared on social media. Thousands of messages were submitted and eventually displayed on the façade. Relation to Resilience Enabling people to…

A New Now

Case Description Designer Morag Myerscough created an art installation in central Paris, sending a positive message of hope to the local residents. The painted intervention ‘New Normal’ has the double ambition ‘to encourage, with communicative joy, to build an ‘after’ the Covid crisis and arouse, in a poetic and popular way, the imagination’. With limited…

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

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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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