Design for Emergency Management

Saskia M. van Manen is Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management, the Netherlands, and a Visiting Fellow at the Open University, UK.Claudine Jaenichen is Professor of Graphic Design at Chapman University, USA, and Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management.Tingyi S. Lin is Associate Professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, and Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management.Klaus Kremer is Lecturer in the School of Design at Massey University, New Zealand, and Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management.Rodrigo Ramírez is Associate Professor and Director of the Design School at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and researcher at CIGIDEN the National Centre for Integrated Research in Disasters, Chile, and Cofounder of the Design Network for Emergency Management.

• 1. A Design Philosophy for Emergency Management 2. Knowledge Controversies of “Design Thinking” for Community Participation Within Disaster Recovery 3. Design guidelines to improve user experience (UX) in an emergency: on the importance of affordances, signifiers and feedback 4. Human-Centered Design for Hurricane Risk Communication: A Case Study with the US National Hurricane Center 5. Design for Emergencies: a set of guidelines developed at the University of Palermo 6. Strengthening Emergency Management through Design-driven Development and Co-creation 7. Designing decentralized disaster response: Perspectives from post-Hurricane Dorian recovery in The Bahamas 8. ‘Balancing human needs with technology —A design-led approach for exploring an earthquake early warning system in Aotearoa New Zealand 9. Awareness to preparedness: A design-led approach to building resilience and readiness for the next Alpine Fault earthquake 10. Visual displays of local flood risk: Examining how residents at risk use flood maps and river level graphs 11. Differences between Dynamic Signs and Static Signs on the visual Cognition and User Experience in Fire Evacuation Guidance 12. FireClear: Applying visual standards for public-facing wildfire maps 13. Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Tsunami Warning in Japanese Public Service Media Conclusions