Design for Vulnerable Communities

Chapter 1. Introduction on Design for Vulnerable Communities.- Chapter 2. How technology devices can help or harm vulnerable communities in Technocene. Issues for designers, architects, and policy makers.- Chapter 3. Poverty and Design, an Economics and Policy Perspective.- Chapter 4. The Vulnerability pandemic. Design as a pain-killer or a vaccine?.- Chapter 5. Thinking Socially: Anthropological Approaches to Contemporary Research.- Chapter 6. Thinking in systems: sustainability cognition for design communities.- Chapter 7. Towards Conscious Design and Urban Planning: Inspiration from Consciousness in Business.- Chapter 8. From storytelling to numbers: a discussion on vulnerability in the global and local context.- Chapter 9. Urban Design in the Age of Climate Change: Paradigms and Directions.- Chapter 10. Social housing in historic centers: contemporary experiences in Latin America.- Chapter 11. Designing for vulnerabilities. The definition of public spaces as a strategy for a sustainable renovation of Beijing heritage sites.- Chapter 12. Urban form and social vulnerability in Shanghai: a comparative study of Hongkou district before and after the `90s urban renewal.- Chapter 13. Climate Urbanism in the Post-pandemic World: Mapping Vulnerabilities and Exploring Community Activism in East London.- Chapter 14. Facing vulnerability: healthcare sustainable design in the Global South.- Chapter 15. Coastal vulnerability: sustainable settlements for outdoor tourism.- Chapter 16. AR/VR as design strategies to empower vulnerable communities.- Chapter 17. Digital participation for Inclusive Growth: A Case Study of Singapore's Collaborative Digital Governance Model.- Chapter 18. The program« Rebuilding the World » (RBW) at ENSAP Bordeaux, a new humanist vision to respond to contemporary urban planning and environmental challenges.- Chapter 19. Climate Resilient Development Pathways in the US-Mexico Border Region: The Case of the El Paso del Norte Metropolitan Area.- Chapter

Emanuele Giorgi is a Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the Tecnológico de Monterrey since 2017, he develops teaching and research activities on the issues of communities and sustainable territorial development. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering and Architecture obtained at the University of Pavia (Italy). He is director of the "Design for Vulnerables" research project focused on design solutions for Mexican vulnerable communities and, since 2021, he is leader of the of the Strategic Research Group "Sustainable Territorial Development" of School of Architecture, Art and Design of Tecnológico de Monterrey. In 2020 he published with Springer the book "The Co-Housing Phenomenon. Environmental Allience in Times of Changes". Reviewer for several journal, Giorgi presented his researches in more than 30 international conferences and published several articles in indexed journals. He is part of the Mexican National System of Researchers (level 1) and Secretary of the Association the of Italian Researchers in Mexico (ARIM).

Tiziano Cattaneo, Architect, PhD, Associate Professor in Architectural Design at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia. In China he holds a qualification as Professor in design at the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai. His research focuses on architectural design as a process to create and regenerate environments addressing contemporary conditions such as climate change, globalization, technology and urbanization. Tiziano is leading research, exhibitions, workshops and scientific meetings and is collaborating on a number of research projects with institutions and organizations in Europe, Mexico and China in the field of shared landscape, urban resilience and sustainable communities. He was visiting professor and has lectured in international universities and institutions in Europe, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Russia, USA and China, and