Design for Resilience is not a podcast just for professional designers. This a podcast for human beings, who may have forgotten that they are creative. We build our personal resilience by first remembering that we are all designers. We make language, sing songs, invent alphabets, share ideas, create images, build cities, and organize social systems. When we think of a murmuration of starlings, we are amazed at the way birds will fly together as a group, swirling around in the air as if they were one organism.

What does a murmuration of human beings look like? When we look around at the modern world, we can witness the way humans work together to build architecture that draws from various traditions and styles. Ideas, tools, and systems spread around the world. We do this with language, education, commerce, and politics. We can do this with technologies, such as the internal combustion engine. We are social creatures, and we have amplified our ability to travel and gather together with trains, planes, and automobiles.

But, now we have seen what can go wrong when we design without thinking about the possible consequences of our actions. If technology scales, accelerates, and amplifies our abilities and capacities as human beings, we need to think carefully about who we want to be. We are discovering that we can project our intentions into the world and build our own reality.

Design for resilience begins with an inward journey into who we are as human beings and thinking carefully about the future that we build for the generations to come.

Join us as we explore how we imagine, design, and build the future together.

Design for Resilience

Design for Resilience — Episode 1

Introduction music for a podcast about resilience, composed by Caleb Chan, with credit to the creative direction of Brad Jarvis.

The Resilience Podcast Opener

Exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together.

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