Engineering a Demonstrator System for Operationalising Resilience

The Resilient Futures project aims to help operationalise future resilience issues of UK critical infrastructure for a range of key stakeholders. In particular, we focus on the technological and community aspects related to the resilience of transport and energy infrastructures on a 2050 timescale. Jointly funded by the EPSRC and ESRC, we are an interdisciplinary team of engineers and social scientists, with a core goal of producing an interactive computer-based demonstrator system as the primary tool for operationalising resilience. This talk will focus on our attempts to build this demonstrator system based on four future scenarios that examine future adoption of technology and levels of network centralisation. Specifically we will describe how we have used a development version of the demonstrator system to provide visual media for focus groups designed to both test and explore resiliency issues in our future worlds. We will discuss how data collected from the focus groups will help us engineer the final demonstrator system.