The built environment faces increasing pressures from climate change, resource limitations, and rapid urbanisation.

Last time in our Resilient Design blog series, Chief Sustainability Officer Ellen Mitchell-Kozack asked “What is resilience?” and discussed our responsibility as designers to address the looming ...

Resilience is finally taking a front stage in the electric power industry. Society recognizes the need to significantly increase investments in resilience as the electric grid ages and faces extreme ...

Can academic projects explore new directions and contribute to public discourse on global and local issues? The 2025 Politecnico di Torino Architecture Students Award aimed to address these questions, ...

Each fresh disaster, whether hurricane, wildfire, flood, or tornado, and each sign of global warming, whether rising seas, recurring drought, melting permafrost, or new disease, makes the urgency of ...

Moving away from its early exclusive focus on natural disasters, resilient architecture and design tackles the much tougher challenge of helping ecosystems regenerate. Today, we hear some version of ...

As the world muddles its way through this period of profound uncertainty, design must assume yet another mandate. Well beyond surface aesthetics and smooth usability, good design today calls for ...