Resilience

Roles: stressor, shock, recovery, adaptation, redundancy, brittleness, threshold, reserve

The capacity of a system, organism, or structure to absorb disturbance and reorganize while retaining essential function. As a source domain, resilience supplies vocabulary of shocks and stressors, recovery time, adaptive capacity, brittleness thresholds, and reserves. It draws on ecology (Holling’s adaptive cycle), materials science (elastic deformation), and psychology (trauma recovery). When we say an organization is “resilient,” that a system “bounced back,” or that a design is “brittle,” we are drawing on this frame.

As Source Frame (2)

• Antifragile
• Resilience

Applied To This Frame (1)

• agriculture → Deep Roots Are Not Reached by Frost