Resilience Maps
I first came across the Resilience Maps approach when i met their creator, Vinay Gupta.
It models the 6 main causes of death, apart from old age, and the infrastructure we use to avoid them.
The different types of infrastructure are further divided into categories based around the number of people that they can support.
The original reason for creating this type of map was to avoid the Goat Rodeo problem.
Vinay came across this during his work on disaster relief after an earthquake in Haiti, where multiple aid agencies and NGO's were working at cross-purposes as they were all working on their own agenda's, and not focussing on what was needed.
By creating the simplest possible infrastructure map, and, requiring total transparency of actions, it becomes clear when someone is working on the actual problems, and, when they are working on their own agenda's.
For some reason this was not a very popular solution. :D
Caveat: While Vinay is a figure of some controversy, as he has very strong opinions and is very Scottish in the way that he presents them, I'm equally Scottish in the way that i do things.
While we disagree on some of the implementation approaches, but we do agree on the core problems, and we are both working on our different paths towards solving them. :D
At the time when we met, i was helping build out version 2 of the workshop for London Hackspace, which is a complete tangent in and of itself, so i'll talk about that in another post.
Having access to a workshop of this type was great, as it meant that the range of potential solutions expanded, as our tool-sets and technological capabilities grew.
I began thinking about how a workshop like the one that we built could be used to solve some of the problems mentioned above. :D
The more that i looked at this, the more that i saw how there were sustainable technological solutions that weren't being used, as they were not profitable enough to pay for a dedicated manufacturing system, but that are profitable if the people that are using solutions are making them for their own use. :D
Access to a workshop like the London Hackspace meant that the range of manufacturable solutions became larger, as the price-point of making the solutions drops to the level where thinking on a larger scale becomes feasible. :D
I'll start talking about specific solutions in the next few posts. :D