Design for Resilience | Shareable

Design innovation is central to much of our work in the Knowledge Systems group at Ecotrust, and so I've been intrigued by the idea of design for resilience.

With friends in the Bay Area hosting a "D4R: Design 4 Resilience" open space conference at The Hub Berkeley on April 10th, I took the opportunity to revisit some ideas on modularity as a design principle. The post is called "Innovating by Analogy":

The theme of Design for Resilience, an upcoming event co-hosted by Sharable, offers multiple invitations.

One is to ask: What are the design principles – the characteristics of resilient systems that might guide our designs? If we surmise the characteristics, perhaps we can innovate by analogy?

[Update: See also the notes-in-progress for my talk on Design for Resilience: Cultivating Knowledge.]