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Resilience 3.0 

surviving & thriving in 2, 3, 4, 5 degrees

 

As the world approaches climate chaos – extreme heat, storm, flood, drought, landslides, pests and pandemics – the collective RESILIENCE has never been so topical.  We also know that the simple resilience – bouncing back to the system of exploitation and inequality which produces the problem – is not a real answer.  So we look for systemic and transformative resilience – not just bouncing back but ‘forward’… So is this a resilience of individuals, or a resilience of cities and regions, or of whole systems such as capitalism?  and would that mean a transformation in how all parts of society learn, think ahead, innovate and collaborate – i.e. a bigger picture, a ‘collective resilience intelligence’??  This program aims to explore via systematic mapping & design…

2025 Forum

Towards a Resilience 3.0 in turbulent times:  

10th July 2025, 12-1400: lunch from 1130:  Location: UoM Humanities Bridgford St – Hanson Room: online link, see email

(Hosted by the Environmental Policy & Place research group of PPEM: Future-wise program of Manchester Urban Institute) 

Register here 

This forum explores the realities & potentials of urban resilience – complex inter-connected systems, dangerous feedbacks / tipping points, and ‘collective resilience intelligence’ as the key to forward pathways. Bringing together a range of ideas & applications, we explore the bigger picture and extend the 2015 ‘City Resilience Framework’ with mapping of examples in progress.

In context, the urban resilience agenda seems more dangerous every day…

in response we can aim to explore the underlying systems and dynamics –

  • Cities are hubs of inter-connections: e.g. ‘peri-urban resilience’ is connected to rural farming and/or urban greening, upstream and/or downstream.
  • and then, socio-economic-political agendas: e.g. protection of flood-plains may cause housing supply problems…
  • and then, ‘big bad world’ effects: e.g. peri-urban adaptation can be an open door (for some) to make money, grab land, exclude migrants etc…
  • and then, tipping points emerge such as populist anti-science, anti-migrant & anti-resilience….

in response… real pathways for urban resilience go way beyond a ‘problem-fix’ – they involve a wider community of interest, with deeper layers of value, and further inter-connections of cause & effect – i.e. the components of a ‘collective resilience intelligence’ or Resilience 3.0…  This Resilience Forum gathers a range of methods and case studies , so far including: 

  • Jorge Inzulza Contardo – seismic resilience
  • Angela Connelly – ‘contingent resilience’
  • Paul O Hare – social justice resilience
  • (David Schultz – disaster resilience tbc) 
  • Joe Ravetz – ‘collective resilience intelligence’

We aim towards a bigger picture of ‘real world resilience’:  how to extend the  ‘City Resilience Framework’ 2024 :  and how to work with case study policy-research in this bigger context.  Materials include – 

 

 

Also see – 

‘how to survive the 21st century’: – from the China-UK project on International resilient cities with Hunan University and UN Habitat, we bring new methods of risk / resilience analysis, to look beyond the city limits at whole urban / peri / rural systems.

Also see the related Adaptation Forum 2022: 

On a parallel track we explored some fundamentals on research in the ‘real world’ – how to understand ‘adaptation’ which is entangled with inequality, corruption, livelihood, etc.

With these practical examples we aim to explore pathways, from the current crises, towards potential opportunity – i.e. a workable Adaptation 3.0. The panel included: 

  • Joe Ravetz (host): towards a ‘collective resilience intelligence’ – quick tour of the Mind Lab & experimental zone in progress; 
  • Sarah Webb, Natural Environment Research Council:  research for ‘real world’ complexity & the Adaptation Research Alliance;
  • Lakshmi Rajendra, UCL:  challenges of urban sprawl in the global South, marginalised communities, environment & health.
  • Angela Connelly, Manchester School of Architecture:  creative-experiential co-design for new forms of resilience.
  • Grace Githiri, UN Habitat:  urban-rural linkages and the new agenda for territorial intelligence. 

Resilience 3.0 folder:  slides & materials

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