

From Disaster Risk Reduction to Design for Resilience and Regeneration: 3 Prototypes in 3 Years
“What if we changed the narrative of Disaster Risk Reduction or DRR, into that of Design for Resilience and Regeneration?” This is what inspires our design as Green Releaf Initiative. It started in 2009 when I was helping pack relief goods full of plastics and processed food. Looking at the massive pile of carbon packed to respond to the floods and mass displacement caused by Typhoon Ketsana, I wondered, “how might we address problems without the same factors that caused the