In the UK, the government has typically taken responsibility for ensuring that the general public is able to prepare for, withstand and adapt to disruption.

 

However, in a world characterised by fast-paced, complex and volatile risks, disruptions happen with greater scale and scope than ever before, making them urgent concerns, and interact across an interconnected globalised space in ways that make it unclear for slow-moving, bankrupt authority groups, to know where best to intervene or invest. 

This dual challenge for policymakers has created a window of opportunity in which an alternative model is emerging. In this, responsibility for resilience to a wide range of possible disruptions is not solely a top-down process, but distributed across society and driven by proactive innovation.

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One angle on this is explored is the projects below, each focusing on a specific area of possible disruption, and led by the following question. What things, tools, items and objects would the general public need to adapt and be resilient to possible future disruption?

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