Design for Emergency Management

Through a combination of theory, practice, and a range of interdisciplinary case studies, this book expands how we define and think about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies. This role extends far beyond aesthetics: the book highlights the urgency of ensuring that a wide range of stakeholders and a diverse representation of the public comes together to work towards preventing disasters.

Design in the context of disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding and (wild) fires, provides new ways of looking at challenges. It contributes methods to actively engage communities in managing and minimizing disaster risk. Contributors present the latest research on how (collaborative) design and design thinking contribute to the development of processes and solutions to increase disaster literacy and decrease disaster risk for individuals and entire communities. Chapters highlight applied research and implementation of design and design thinking before, during, and after emergencies, resulting in a set of design guidelines derived from best practice.

The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in emergency management, product and service design, strategic design, design research, co-design, social design, design for change, and human-centered design.

Chapter 8 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by Massey University. Chapter 9 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by University of Otago.

Saskia M. van Manen is Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management, the Netherlands, and a Visiting Fellow at the Open University, UK.

Claudine Jaenichen is Professor of Graphic Design at Chapman University, USA, and Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management.

Tingyi S. Lin is Associate Professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, and Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management.

Klaus Kremer is Lecturer in the School of Design at Massey University, New Zealand, and Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management.

Rodrigo Ramírez is Associate Professor and Director of the Design School at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and researcher at CIGIDEN the National Centre for Integrated Research in Disasters, Chile, and Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management.