Design and Disaster Resilience: Toward a Role for Design in Disaster Mitigation and Recovery

This paper examines how the discourses and practices of design can be applied to both mitigate damaging impacts (un-)natural disasters guide resilient post-disaster recovery. Integrated with systems analysis, provide an innovative window for understanding complexities disaster-risk reduction recovery, as well a conceptual bridge new ways building socio-economic physical resilience in disaster-affected communities. However, skills key thinkers, such architects, urban planners, landscape are seldom employed, despite their demonstrated capacity work disaster-prone or -impacted communities develop integrated spatial responses long-term rebuilding after disaster. Indeed, there has been little focused investigation potential contributions per se developing strategies Similarly, attention education complementing creative problem-solving designer contextual systemic understandings disaster management disaster-resilient design. addresses these omissions though review research on issues provides case study curriculum pedagogical approaches appropriate build enhancing this contribution.