Building Community Resilience

In the face of today’s complex urban challenges, the whole of society must work together to adapt and find ways to thrive. Lessons learnt through responding to shocks and stressors have shown that community resilience—built upon social infrastructure and social capital—drives recovery. So how can we build community resilience within our cities? What is the role of community engagement and participatory design in strengthening social infrastructure and building social capital? How might we give form to and enhance the invisible sense of community resilience in the built environment?