A design brief to practice resilient thinking in design

‘By doing this, I learnt more in three days than in three years.’ - Helene Combal Weiss, MA Textile Futures, Central Saint Martins College at the Resilients workshop led by Bartaku and Carole Collet in collaboration with MA TF.

Before you start: - Plan three days for an in-depth session. - Plan to work on your own or in groups of two to three people

EXERCISE 1: Decode 1 Define “resilience” in ten keywords. 2 Create a hierarchy of these keywords. 3 Find five sentences (in printed media, on the internet…) where the word is used in different contexts. 4 Review points 1 to 3. Based on your findings create your own definition and context for resilience. Write it down.

Take a break, think of your personal resilience. If you're having a coffee break, try to serve fair trade and organic produce (even if not certified as such).

EXERCISE 2: Define Fill in the following tables to develop your understanding of resilience in practice, by finding examples related to each quadrant. This will help you to turn the abstract concept of resilience into concrete and usable examples.

1 Define what cultural resilience could be: