Philip Cooke is Professor at the Centre of Innovation at West University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. He is an official advisor to the European Parliament Committee on Regional Development and his research interests lie in studies of regional innovation systems, knowledge economies, entrepreneurship, clusters and networks.Luciana Lazzeretti is Professor in Economics and Management at the University of Florence, Italy. She is scientific coordinator of the Doctorate Programme in ‘Development Economics and Local Systems’ of the University of Florence and Trento.

• 1. Responding to and resisting resilience 2. Turin and Lingotto: resilience, forgetting and the reinvention of place 3. The Calatrava model: reflections on resilience and urban plasticity 4. Resilience in ruins: the idea of the ‘arrested dialectic’ in art after resilience’s failures 5. Adaptation, adaptability and resilience: the recovery of Kobe after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 6. Resilience and the role of arts and culture-based activities in mature industrial districts 7. Blue notes: Slovenian jazz festivals and their contribution to the economic resilience of the host cities 8. Beyond resilience: learning from the cultural economy 9. Tourism and regional economic resilience from a policy perspective: lessons from smart specialization strategies in Europe