Urban resilience through transdisciplinary partnerships and socio-eco-technical solutions

The Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network aims to help cities find solutions to manage challenges like flooding and extreme heat. Key to our approach is inter- and transdisciplinary partnerships that consider social, ecological, and technological facets of complex urban systems. I’ll present an example from Arizona State University where students are trained in this approach. Specifically, landscape architecture studios are designing approaches to enhance resilience to flooding and heat in vulnerable areas of Phoenix, but social scientists, ecologists, and engineers are regularly engaging in the studio in order to co-produce more effective, grounded, and innovative solutions for resilience.