Design for Emergency Management
Design Research for Change Series

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.

1. A Design Philosophy for Emergency Management 2. Knowledge Controversies of “Design Thinking” for Community Participation Within Disaster Recovery 3. Design guidelines to improve user experience (UX) in an emergency: on the importance of affordances, signifiers and feedback 4. Human-Centered Design for Hurricane Risk Communication: A Case Study with the US National Hurricane Center 5. Design for Emergencies: a set of guidelines developed at the University of Palermo 6. Strengthening Emergency Management through Design-driven Development and Co-creation 7. Designing decentralized disaster response: Perspectives from post-Hurricane Dorian recovery in The Bahamas 8. ‘Balancing human needs with technology —A design-led approach for exploring an earthquake early warning system in Aotearoa New Zealand 9. Awareness to preparedness: A design-led approach to building resilience and readiness for the next Alpine Fault earthquake 10. Visual displays of local flood risk: Examining how residents at risk use flood maps and river level graphs 11. Differences between Dynamic Signs and Static Signs on the visual Cognition and User Experience in Fire Evacuation Guidance 12. FireClear: Applying visual standards for public-facing wildfire maps 13. Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Tsunami Warning in Japanese Public Service Media Conclusions

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.