(11 Mar) Designing for Resilience: Ethics, Sustainability and the Future of Human Centred Design
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Date: 11 March 2026 |
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Time: 2.00pm – 5:00pm |
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Venue: SUTD Lecture Theatre 4 |
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Theme: Adapting to Change I: Urban, Social, Cultural |
The world is going through a period of upheaval and facing many serious challenges, whether from climate change, war, or new diseases. Societies across the world are having to grapple with the difficulty of living in the face of such adversities. In this cross-disciplinary symposium, we raise the question of how design can contribute to fostering more resilient forms of life.
Rather than treating design as a tool for erasing difficulty, we will consider how it can cultivate the capacities, whether social, material, and imaginative, that enable communities to endure, adapt, and even flourish under pressure. This includes asking how design can scaffold mutual care, create infrastructures that absorb shocks, and open up new ways of organising collective life in uncertain times.
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