Carrying on with a Design Philosophy for Emergency Management

Locating Design in Existing Emergency Management Practice and Moving from "Doing Work" to "Creating Futures."

Note: This was initially prepared to be posted in the Operational Coherence collection in late Fall 2023. It is a small continuation of my chapter “A Design Philosophy for Emergency Management” in the Design for Emergency Management textbook. This is version 1.5, a short addition to what has already been written. This could be expanded upon extensively and may well be in the future.

Introduction

With the exception of reading from Edgar Morin's new book, I have been taking a bit of a hiatus from reading in a marked departure from my norm. I wanted to take a pause and think independently from what others had already written and see what I could come up with. Of course, everything I have read influences me in some inescapable way, and I think it is important to acknowledge that from the outset. At the same time, the chapter I recently finished for the text Design for Emergency Management was surely a strong influence here. Like many before (dating back to 2019), this post will encourage e…