Resilience by design emergency architecture, testing and the ecology of aid (1970–1980)

Resilience by design emergency architecture, testing and the ecology of aid (1970–1980)

Since the late 2000s, the humanitarian sector has witnessed what scholars have described as an ‘innovation turn’ in response to what humanitarian innovators conceive as the field’s inefficient, backwards-looking and top-down inner workings. In this context, aid actors have increasingly embraced design methodologies in pursuing creative, participatory and human-centred responses to humanitarian crises. However, this turn overshadows a longer hist…