Architecture and Resilience Interdisciplinary Dialogues

• Main Authors: Kim Trogal, Ranald Lawrence, Irena Bauman, Doina Petrescu
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2019; Taylor and Francis
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Architecture; Armina Pilav; Axel Becerra Santacruz; Beatrice De Carli; Carolyn Butterworth; city; climate change; consumerism; Cordula Roser Gray; Daniel D'Oca; Doina Petrescu; ecology; Elke Krasny; energy; environment; free-market growth; geography; Grainne Hassett; Helen Jarvis; Irena Bauman; Jenny Pickerill; Julia Udall; Kevin Fellingham; local resilience; Marcella Del Signore; Meike Schalk; Panayotis Antoniadis; practice; Ranald Lawrence; Renata Tyszczuk; Sally Weintrobe; Sustainable Architecture; Theory of Architecture; Critical Pedagogical Position; Young Man; Maria Rosa Dalla Costa; Social Reproduction; UK Building; Environmental Modelling Software; La Deriva; Resilient Practices; UK Climate Change; Age Friendly Communities; Community Interest Company; Resilient Subjects; Scottish House Condition Survey; Sheffield City Council; UK Carbon Emission; Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities; Tv News Broadcast; DIY Networking; Age Friendly Design; Town Hall; Large Scale Shocks; Energy Futures; Informal Globalisation; Energy Systems; Derby Silk Mill
• ISBN: 9781138065819; 1138065803; 9781138065802; 1138065811
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315159478

Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. Our urban infrastructures, our buildings, our economies, our ways of managing and governing are still too tightly bound to models of unrestrained free-market growth, individualism and consumerism. Research has shown that the crises arising from climate change will become increasingly frequent and increasingly severe. It is also known that the effects of climate change are not evenly distributed across places and people, and neither are the resources needed to meet these challenges. We will need place-specific responses that engage with, and emerge from, citizens ourselves. This volume takes resilience as a transformative concept to ask where and what architecture might contribute. Bringing together cross-disciplinary perspectives from architecture, urban design, art, geography, building science and psychoanalysis, it aims to open up multiple perspectives of research, spatial strategies and projects that are testing how we can build local resilience in preparation for major societal challenges, defining the position of architecture in urban resilience discourse.