TEXTS are 16 contributions presenting points of view on Cultures of Resilience that authors developed out of their own experiences and through participating in the CoR Group discussions during the first and second phases of the CoR Project.
The proposed ideas are very diverse but they can be clustered in four main groups: general statements; resilience and places; resilience and specific topics; resilience and specific disciplines.
Jeremy Till
Adam Thorpe
Kim Trogal
Melanie Dodd
Neil Cummings
Marsha Bradfield
David Cross
Sarah Temple
Alison Prendiville
Silvia Grimaldi
Amanda Windle
Lorraine Gamman
Adam Thorpe
Rebecca Earley
Bridget Harvey
Carole Collet
Patricia Austin
Jane Penty
Dilys Williams
Anne Eggebert
1/4 General statements
History in the making
Jeremy Till
I have returned to a favela in Belo Horizonte with my friends from MOM. If I focus my attention downwards to the scale of the streets and dwellings... Read more
Designing Conditions for ‘Active’ Redundancy
Adam Thorpe
It is rumoured that the public phone boxes that remain on our streets post mobile communications, whilst appearing redundant, are there because they... Read more
Making Resilience
Kim Trogal
When describing or defining what resilience is, one thing descriptions consistently seem to miss is, what makes resilience? Systems might be described... Read more
Creative Cities
Melanie Dodd
One of the most disturbing aspects of dialogues about sustainability (particularly in the field of architecture and urbanism) is the absence of culture from any... Read more
Communities of Evaluation
Neil Cummings, Marsha Bradfield and David Cross
Markets are brilliant bundles of technologies, assembled to exchange things. All kinds of things – from living labour to resources and foodstuffs as well as public services. Read more
Caretakers
Sarah Temple
A suggestion that Resilience is a vitally important strategy immediately provokes a critical response in me. Resilience to me suggests suffrage and repellence, a defence... Read more
2/4 Resilience and places
Resilience as an Emerging Scenario
Alison Prendiville
The UK is facing a number of political, economic and social challenges that are interwoven with the theme of Cultures of Resilience. According to Gooby (2012) the social... Read more
London Transcience and Community Spaces
Silvia Grimaldi
London is not only a multicultural city, but also a city that plays host to a lot of transient people. People are transient in London for different reasons. There is... Read more
3/4 Resilience and Specific Topics
Ageing and Digital R&D
Amanda Windle
I am going to be reflexive on the promises of a digital R&D project entitled ‘Silver Service’ that aims to reduce social isolation by engaging an audience aged 65... Read more
Building Resilience of Returning Citizens
Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe
Ideas about law and criminality are made and read in history, often linked to contestation, ethics, status and power. A ‘criminal’ is not just a simple description of... Read more
Elastic Learning Tools
Rebecca Earley and Bridget Harvey
A colleague at Chelsea who teaches on the BA Textiles course – a well respected industry professional who has carved an illustrious career from designing... Read more
Synthetic Resilience
Carole Collet
We, as humans depend 100% on planet Earth to continue to evolve as a species. The very natural system we depend upon is under serious human-triggered and... Read more
4/4 Resilience and Specific Disciplines
Give and Take
Patricia Austin
Imagine material environments as communication channels; in other words, picture place as a communication medium, as powerful as television, text messaging or... Read more
Eyes Wide Open
Jane Penty
Planet earth: home to 7.2 billion highly unequal humans, consuming 50% more than can be replenished and rising, destabilising their natural cycles and habitats in... Read more
Fashion Habit(at)s for Resilience
Dilys Williams
Fashion can make us individually vulnerable; we put out into the world an idea for public viewing and scrutiny, it’s written all over our bodies. We create statements... Read more
Flow
Anne Eggebert
Resilience proposes its other – attack. A long-shore drift drags slowly at the foundations of a landscape until, eventually, it falls into the uncompromising sea – entropy... Read more