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Mediamatic’s Serres Séparées

Case Description The design group from Mediamatic in Amsterdam created the ‘Mediamatic’s Serres Séparées’ — a series of small green houses located right outside the restaurant, which allows couples or small groups to enjoy dinner while being socially distanced from other customers. By decentralizing the space for dining, restaurants can keep their business running. The…

Little Tiger Covid Classroom

Case Description During the pandemic, crowded activities became unsafe and many schools had to temporarily close their doors. In response, The Little Tiger Chinese Immersion School of Austin decided to move their activities outdoors, and reached out to Murray Legge Architecture to offer a solution for this. The architects designed a temporary structure that cost…

Reshaping Football

Case Description With many sports activities on hold during periods of lockdown, people needed safe ways to restart these activities. The design studio Accept & Proceed redesigned a football pitch of London, as well as the rules of the game, based on social distancing measures. “The pitch has been sectioned into compartments, so each player,…

Hyperlocal Micromarkets

Case Description In light of the difficulties of accessing fresh food in a safe way, Shift architecture urbanism has developed a concept to decentralize open-air markets, minimizing the potential spreading of the virus. As the architects explain, “[t]his is done by breaking down the large markets into so called micro markets that are spread over…

Pop-up Wifi-workstation at Somerville Library

Case Description Somerville Library, just like many libraries around the world, had to close its doors when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. One of their most essential services to the community, free Wi-fi access, also ceased, leaving many people without internet access. As a response, the library collaborated with CultureHouse, a non-profit urban design agency, to…

Speed-Rail modular kit

Case Description The Hollaender Manufacturing company in Cincinnati area (Ohio, US) developed a modular kit based on their Speed-Rail system of pipes and fittings, which can be used to build structures for a variety of applications. The Speed-Rail system has been used in the past for a variety of purposes. In response to the pandemic,…

GoDriveIn

Case Description In order to guarantee a safe space for people to gather during the Covid-19 pandemic, Grant De Sousa and Tyrone Rubin (both known in the South African film industry) have brought back to life the idea of the drive-in cinema, with the project ‘GoDriveIn’. They managed to find an open-air lot in Salt…

Creator Transfer Chamber

Case Description During the pandemic, many local businesses could not welcome customers into their shop or restaurant. This led purchases and other interactions between staff and customers to take place around the entrance. A restaurant in San Francisco, Creator, took this a step further, and found an alternative way to serving people in a more…

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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