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Participatory Resilience
Last Updated: 2026-02-05 16:02:26
Abstract
The Participatory Resilience hackathon aims to discuss and create potential solutions to address problems related to urban resilience using open-source digital tools and participatory methods. It will allow participants from different backgrounds and expertise to exchange ideas, discuss best practices, and build innovative open-source solutions that promote participation and resilience.
Objective
The course provides opportunities to understand what role participatory approaches can play in making cities more resilient. A particular focus will be on understanding how open data, code, knowledge, and service platforms can increase digitally assisted cooperation and promote participatory resilience.
Content
The Participatory Resilience course is a hackathon. At the beginning of the course, the lecturers will explain the concept of participatory resilience and discuss the importance of participatory, interactive, and cooperative approaches for managing complex systems. Participants will focus on the resilience of urban systems, as these are the ones that are particularly prone to many kinds of environmental and social disruptions. They will discuss several problems that could be solved using open-source hardware/software, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Machine Learning. Lecturers and other course facilitators will ensure that only those problems are selected that are suitable for the hackathon's central theme. The students will organize themselves into teams of 3–5 students, where each group works on solving a specific problem. At the end of the course, the teams will demonstrate their hackathon prototype and give a short presentation to an interdisciplinary jury on the last day. We encourage students from different backgrounds and expertise to participate in this course. Please visit our website: https://participatoryresilience.ch/
General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- DS
Examination
- Type
- graded semester performance
Registration & Places
- Max Places
- 120
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
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| lecture with exercise |
Participatory Resilience
Block course
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40 h semesterly |
Offered In
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