What is Resiliency?
Interior Architecture + Design undergraduate program
This course examines the development and impact of resiliency as it relates to a community’s ability to predict, react and adapt to unanticipated factors.  Students gain factual knowledge about the strategies and tools required for implementing resiliency with a focus on historical built environments and business continuity planning.  Students analyze and observe various resilient approaches used across the globe and explore these important cultural and geographical differences through international travel. 

For the spring 2016 semester we are focusing on Boston and Barcelona.  Mount Ida College is located in Newton MA and travel to Barcelona will occur in May 2016.


RESILIENCY:
What is it and why is it important?
noun re·sil·ience \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\
: the ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens

Welcome! Global Design: Analysis of historic environments and planning for resiliency

Interior Architecture + Design undergraduate program This course examines the development and impact of resiliency as it relates to a co...

Interior Architecture + Design undergraduate program
This course examines the development and impact of resiliency as it relates to a community’s ability to predict, react and adapt to unanticipated factors.  Students gain factual knowledge about the strategies and tools required for implementing resiliency with a focus on historical built environments and business continuity planning.  Students analyze and observe various resilient approaches used across the globe and explore these important cultural and geographical differences through international travel. 
For the spring 2016 semester we are focusing on Boston and Barcelona.  Mount Ida College is located in Newton MA and travel to Barcelona will occur in May 2016.


RESILIENCY:
What is it and why is it important?
noun re·sil·ience \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\
: the ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens

 Recently being heralded as "the new sustainability," resilience is the ability to recover from, and plan for, difficult circumstances. When a person or community experiences a trauma, there are ways for these people to recover and continue to live life. More importantly, there are social services and systems in place in an attempt to prevent catastrophe. Shouldn't we expand the concept of resiliency to apply to our infrastructure? Our business practices? Responding to disaster is vital, but so is planning for it.

The population of the world has grown exponentially in the last 50 years; currently it is over 7 billion people. Climate change is a reality and while focusing on ways to reduce our impact on the environment is absolutely necessary, so is preparing for natural disaster, lack of space, lack of resources, and other problems that come along with our ever-increasing population.
A collapsed house along the central Jersey Shore
coast on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, after Superstorm Sandy.
In 2012, Superstorm Sandy tore through the East Coast and the Caribbean, causing billions of dollars in damage and destroying hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. Many lost power and had to evacuate. Unfortunately, New York and New Jersey were unprepared for this disaster. Currently, Governor Cuomo "wants electrical transformers in commercial buildings hauled to upper floors; the ability to shutter key tunnels, airports and subways; and to require hospitals to have backup power on high ground instead of on lower floors or in basements." These are examples of resilient design that are being implemented too late to provide protection from Sandy, but it is important that coastal cities adapt to our changing climate. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development recently launched a competition to redesign coastal NY and NJ. It is important that cities across the country and world begin to think about creating a more resilient world.

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