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Co-Citizen Design Labs In Resilience Making, Stephanie Carleklev, Wendy Fountain

Nordes Conference Series

In this paper we share our resilience making approach for a first year design program in which we work intentionally with scale – through the subject matters of resilience, and through our learning design. We respond to the provocation of matters of scale in design to progress our design research in two ways. The first contributes to discussion of design education's remit from within ecological and existential crises, relative to expanding (design) knowledge. We then give focus to the co-citizen design lab that students conduct to illustrate how the inter-scalar relations we explore manifest through students' design action. Here we …

Tools For Wellbeing, Barbara Knezevic, Michael O'Hara, Claire Louise Bennett, Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll, Linda Quinlan, Suzanne Walsh, Maja Ćiric, Maeve Connolly, Sue Rainsford, Peter Maybury

Books/Book Chapters

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Beacon Public Library: Expanding Radical Civic Care For An Uncertain Future, Katrina Machado

Masters Theses

Stressors like climate change will put strain on our communities, making them more vulnerable. I am asserting and expanding the role of the public library as a civic space for radical care and community resilience. This work explores the ways in which the public library, as an existing institution, could adapt to the needs of its changing environment and community. Interventions are visualized by a librarian’s jumpsuit and library apron, an adapted library book cart, public signage, and a re-imagined library card.

I imagine a public library that pushes the bounds of its physical building and actively and compassionately serves …

Care Full Objects, Barbara Knezevic

Articles

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