DESIGNING FOR RESILIENCE
- Mar 23
- 1 min read
Assoc. Prof. Miho Mazereeuw
| Urban Risk Lab – Design Before Disaster
In this talk, Miho Mazereeuw presents a design-led approach to resilience, drawing on projects from the MIT Urban Risk Lab and insights from her book Design Before Disaster. She explores how proactive, community-based design can reduce risk and strengthen adaptive capacity in vulnerable regions.
The talk emphasizes community knowledge, human intelligence, and collective collaboration as central to climate action, framing resilience as a shared design process embedded in everyday urban and community life. Drawing on lessons from Japan’s culture of preparedness (bōsai), global case studies, and within works in Thailand, the talk will highlight how long-term engagement and spatial strategies can help communities anticipate and adapt to climate risks.
The talk will also reflect on the role of technology and AI in enabling more inclusive, connected, and scalable forms of collaboration, positioning design as a critical bridge between people, systems, and the future of climate resilience.
