Organizing Design 4 Resilience continues to be a great learning experience for all who've gotten involved. D4R is quickly becoming our own DIY U. Below are some great links that Peter+Trudy Johnson-Lenz of People & Place sent Jerry Michalski of Sociate.com yesterday as inspiration for D4R. I particularly like how these links address resilience across scales and disciplines, which is what we'll be doing at D4R. You can follow D4R learning across organizations using this Twitter hashtag: #D4R
Six Habits of Highly Resilient Organizations
by Peter+Trudy Johnson-Lenz
February 2, 2009
Wrapping Up Issue #1: Resilience Thinking
People and Place
by Howard Silverman
March 25, 2009
Build Your Social Resilience
Would you like to build your social resilience?
by John Cacioppo
Published on March 6, 2010
Time to Rethink Design
Introduction to the Time to Rethink Design report
Teaser image courtesy of All Things Michigan.
Comments
Howard Silverman wrote on 03.29.10, 5:08pm:
What are the principles of design for resilience?
In the modularity article above, i draw directly from the writings of the Resilience Alliance, listing: modularity, diversity, feedback, and redundancy.
Jamais Cascio has a strong set of principles in this slide share: redundancy, decentralization, transparency, collaboration, graceful failure, minimal footprint, flexibility, openness, reversibility, foresight.
Do you have a working definition of resilience for attendees (and others) to be thinking about?
Neal Gorenflo wrote on 03.31.10, 8:16am:
Howard, great questions. I just posted a primer on resilience here: http://cot.ag/9KBwfJ
I definitely draw from the Resilience Alliance for the definition, as a starting place, while realizing there are other perspectives on resilience. We're attempting to use the habits of resilience thinking to explore resilience, meaning looking at it from a cross-discipline, cross-scale perspective. For example, you could look at it from the perspective of personal psychology and also community resilience. We want to uncover together the commonalities and differences across disciplines and scales.
Next step is to abstract principles, which I'd like to do in discussion either beforehand online or at the event.
Thanks for prompting!
Hi Neal,
Thanks for the links. #D4R is a very powerful frame. I've been thinking about the nature of "design" in a world of independent agents, interacting within organizations, under institutional constraints. Wish i could join you.
This p&p article on Modularity might be of interest.
Cheers.