Co-designing for Resilience and Adaptation
- Association of Collaborative Design
- May 29
- 2 min read
By Kara de los Reyes, Terralupa and ACD Co-CEO
Within the context of The ACD, engagement processes and codesign often involve interventions to our built environment; interventions that affect human communities. The dialogue is expanding as we realise that we are totally dependent on a healthy planet to stay healthy ourselves.
Codesigning within the context of geological, ecological, and climate-related time scales brings in a complexity that requires collaborative observation, thinking, practice, and embodiment. We are beginning to address the deeper inquiries around what is needed not just to survive, but to THRIVE.
Terralupa and Strathclyde University have been working together over the past 3 years to offer an MSc program focused on equipping students with tools and methodologies for navigating complex inquiries and applying them across diverse disciplines to foster broader engagement in this exploration.
This MSc welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds and professions who are led by curiosity and a drive to steward the future. Students will acquire interdisciplinary knowledge and hone innovation skills to critically evaluate challenges pertaining to current mindsets and practices within their disciplines, in order to serve a regenerative future. They will cultivate a creative vision and the drive to lead initiatives across various sectors. The curriculum aims to equip them with the essential training and capabilities to employ diverse decision-making methodologies, enabling the implementation of catalysing change in fields such as science, engineering, design, architecture, and business.
Ultimately, it leads to a practice that has to ignite our imagination and intuition in order to be able to “engage” and “codesign” with the non-verbal world around us, a way of thinking and being that helps us remember our place in this living system.
