Abstract
In recent years, the resilience discourse has received support in smart and creative city initiatives, with the City of Melbourne nominated as Australia’s exemplary Resilient City as part of the 100 Resilient Cities project pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. Melbourne inaugurated this award by initiating an arts event, REFUGE, which was promoted as Australia’s first collaborative interdisciplinary investigation into the arts and culture in preparedness, specifically looking at the role of an urban cultural centre as a physical place of refuge. This chapter draws on the REFUGE event as a case study, and through short-term focused ethnography and stakeholder interviews, critically examines the role of the arts and culture in communicating urban resilience. It departs from the normative model of understanding resilience-as-deficient by proposing a resilience-as-dividend model to examine the aesthetic, social and cultural dimensions of urban resilience, which remains under-explored in both policy and scholarly literature.
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