Graduates
Lakshmy Narayanan
MS in Transportation Design - Transportation Systems — Transportation Systems and DesignMobilizing Resilience
This thesis encourages a critical perspective on the Resilience discourse at the intersection of Mobility, Development Studies, and Design. It argues the need for a holistic framing of the transportation resilience narrative to recontextualize the dominant perspectives of “emergency” and “risk management” beyond the traditional functionalist design outcomes to local and culturally relevant practices.
Learning Outcomes:
This thesis Identifies creates new language around "Mobility Resilience" as an ‘assemblage’ of collective values and shared experiences of identity, agency, power, and the “complexities of movement” to identify possibilities for alternate manifestations of resilience. This is also a design thesis that critically looks at how design is “used” at several of these overlaps, and expands on the possibilities of alternate methodologies of design beyond the topic of introspection.