Territorialising Resilience

Innovation Processes for Circular Dynamics

authored by: Jörg Schröder
Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic is throwing a sharp light on the interrelation between metropolis and peripheries in regard to resilience-oriented transformation strategies; peripheries understood in a range from remote, rural, in-between, and urban situations. On the one hand, dependencies and limits of density (even as a prominent factor of sustainability) are questioned; on the other hand, social and spatial fragmentation is observed to being deepened; additionally, new models of living and working are emerging that are based on digitalisation and on a discovery of potentials of peripheral spaces. At the same time, the scenario of fluid, evolving, and performative space-society interaction underlines the call to deepen research for resilience as operative concept for sustainable pathways for recovery: adaptiveness, redundancy, and robustness can serve as principles for territorial innovation. For this aim, the article proposes a perspective of circular dynamics to support novel understanding, engagement, and visioning in resilience-driven innovation processes. Pointing at new material/digital working models, new living models, and new mobility initiated by emerging communities as innovation fields for habitat, in this argumentation the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and spatial fragmentation are seen as a comprehensive case study experiment for methodological innovation in urbanism.
Organisation(s): Territorial Design and Urban Planning
Type: Contribution to book/anthology
Pages: 71-84
No. of pages: 14
Publication date: 26.04.2022
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Engineering(all), Arts and Humanities(all)
Research Area (based on ÖFOS 2012): Urban design, Urban planning
Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG 13 - Climate Action
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85847-6_9 (Access: Closed)