Abstract
Over time, an increasing number of institutions, both public and private bodies, are investing in resilience of communities and territories, supporting local based practices and actions. Launched in April 2015 and promoted by a partnerships between Academic institutions (Politecnico di Milano as coordinator) and the REsilienceLAB association and funded by Fondazione Cariplo (Italian bank foundation), the Resilience Practices Observatory (RPO) takes as its overall strategic objective the enhancement of territorial resilience through the strengthening of resilience practices. This mainly by a integrated and incremental assets of activities including: collection and interpretation of practices; coproduction/co-desing activities, reframing activities for innovation in methods, tools and design criteria; capacity building and dissemination activities from a cultural and methodological perspective. Inside the RPO activities, a specific working space has been devoted to three crosscutting issues (governance, knowledge co-production and economy) that are crucial in enhancing the feasibility and the stabilization of resilience practices and in contributing to social and territorial resilience in the long-run. The essay first offers a brief introduction to the RPO working experience (engaging more than 100 practices), which, in these three years, based on a strong interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, proved to be successful and able to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the resilience implementation from the operational perspective and to envisage innovative tools to be applied in a new generation of multipurpose projects. Then, a specific focus on the three crosscutting issues will be introduced, highlighting main conceptual reframings and toolboxes developed. In the final part of the essay, reframing frameworks, methodological and operational factors will hence be discussed (in particular on the concept of ecosystems of resilience practices), in order to highlight emerging trajectories for the improvement of resilience practices and policies to guarantee systemic and synergic benefits in resilience capabilities enhancement of complex territorial systems.
Highlights
In recent years, there has been a remarkable expansion in the use of resilience concept and a parallel wider diffusion of resilience practices, making territorial and societal quality a central element in urban and territorial innovative actions and investments
Inside the Resilience Practices Observatory (RPO) activities, a specific working space has been devoted to three crosscutting issues that are crucial in enhancing the feasibility and the stabilization of resilience practices and in contributing to social and territorial resilience in the long-run
The essay first offers a brief introduction to the RPO working experience which, in these two years, based on a strong interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, proved to be successful and able to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the resilience implementation from the operational perspective and to envisage innovative tools to be applied in a new generation of multipurpose projects
Summary
There has been a remarkable expansion in the use of resilience concept and a parallel wider diffusion of resilience practices, making territorial and societal quality a central element in urban and territorial innovative actions and investments. It was clear that such an amount of proposals coming from the territories, looking both at the funded and non-funded ones, had to be regarded as a precious knowledge resource On such bases, it has been proposed to build an Observatory with the goal of producing new knowledge founded on the collection, analysis and interpretation of the activities, projects and actions aimed at strengthening resilience of territories and communities in a long-term perspective. The Observatory takes as its overall strategic objective the capacity building of territorial subjects to enhance resilience This considering all territorial entities, institutions and communities involved in a long-term transition project, towards a stronger, aware and adaptive society, and the subjects themselves, which animate the RPO. The possible construction of an inclusive and stable network, which takes together academia, research, professionals, communities, local authorities and private and public institutions and bodies, proved to be an important and strategic transition and an essential element in approaching the reading and interpretation of resilience practices
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
