Design for Vulnerable Communities

By Emanuele Giorgi

Book Overview

1. Introduction on Design for Vulnerable Communities

Part I: Sustainability and Vulnerabilities in Time of the Anthropocene

2. How technology devices can help or harm vulnerable communities in Technocene. Issues for designers, architects, and policy makers

3. Poverty and Design, an Economics and Policy Perspective

4. The Vulnerability pandemic. Design as a pain-killer or a vaccine?

Part II: Approaches, Principles and Paradigms to Contemporary Research and Practice for Vulnerable Communities

5. Thinking Socially: Anthropological Approaches to Contemporary Research

6. Thinking in systems: sustainability cognition for design communities

7. Towards Conscious Design and Urban Planning: Inspiration from Consciousness in Business

8. From storytelling to numbers: a discussion on vulnerability in the global and local context

9. Urban Design in the Age of Climate Change: Paradigms and Directions

Part III: Designing for Vulnerabilities: Applications and Actions

10. Social housing in historic centers: contemporary experiences in Latin America

11. Designing for vulnerabilities. The definition of public spaces as a strategy for a sustainable renovation of Beijing heritage sites

12. Urban form and social vulnerability in Shanghai: a comparative study of Hongkou district before and after the 90s urban renewal

13. Climate Urbanism in the Post-pandemic World: Mapping Vulnerabilities and Exploring Community Activism in East London

14. Facing vulnerability: healthcare sustainable design in the Global South

15. Coastal vulnerability: sustainable settlements for outdoor tourism

Part IV: Social Engagement in Vulnerable Communities Between Digital and Humanist Visions

16. AR/VR as design strategies to empower vulnerable communities

17. Digital participation for Inclusive Growth: A Case Study of Singapore's Collaborative Digital Governance Model

18. The program Rebuilding the World (RBW) at ENSAP Bordeaux, a new humanist vision to respond to contemporary urban planning and environmental challenges

Part V: Vulnerabilities in Context: Analysis and Projects in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

19. Climate Resilient Development Pathways in the US-Mexico Border Region: The Case of the El Paso del Norte Metropolitan Area

20. Nutritious Landscapes: Assessing the accessibility, availability, and acceptability of food in Mexico City metropolitan periphery

21. Drawn Across Borders

22. Energy through Design: an approach to overcome energy poverty in vulnerable communities on the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

23. Design with Vulnerable Communities

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030968650
• ISBN13: 9783030968656
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 483 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"