A Bubble Bath of Well-Being
Towards a framework for social resilience in a digitizing society #2
The question we are trying to solve in this series is: How do we design digital tools that make our digitizing societies more resilient?
In the first part of this series, we learned that, indeed, we are living in bubbles. And if designed or updated wrongly, digitization can exploit that bubble-structure to create havoc in our societal structures.
In our city’s program Resilient The Hague, digitization is classified as a stress to the resilience of the city, meaning it has the potential to slowly erode the fundamental parts of our society. While that program presents an idea model for resilience to work from, I found myself a little unsatisfied using it while trying to answer the above question that’s central to this article.
Therefore, in this series, we take another approach. First, we will walk through a little bit more of that abstract complexity stuff (complex adaptive systems).
However, I promise we end with a simple framework. One that might prove useful in governing the design of new digital tools meant to strengthen the resilience of our societies.
Short summary of last time:
Our society can be pictured as a complex set of divided and connected…
