Resilience Lab evolved from Skysource, and it is a new studio within David Hertz’s Studio Of Environmental Architecture. Resilience Lab is a part think-tank, a part consultancy focused on climate adaptation, survival, and preparing people for the worst consequences of global climate change.
During the XPRIZE competition, Skysource created WeDew—the only competing technology to successfully extract over 2,000 liters of water over 24 hours, using only renewable energy and at the cost of USD $0.02 per liter. Together with Skysource, Resilience Lab has continued to develop WeDeW into a readily deployable, customizable system that responds to local conditions and needs, a process that instigated other related technological explorations.
While the scale of work Resilience Lab does vary, it is united by environmental adaptation. Many projects specifically pertain to disaster preparedness in the built environment.
The Lab designs resilience plans for communities living in the wildland-urban interface. These services include hardy buildings, landscapes, and systems that respond to natural phenomena. For example, Resilience Lab vets and invents best practices and products for fire rebuilds and fire prevention.
We are developing a broad network of partnerships with like-minded companies and people worldwide, a social infrastructure to address the alarming realities of anthropogenic climate change.
WeDew has been selected as one of TIME's Best Inventions OF 2020!
TIME’s 100 Best Inventions are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun and we are so proud and excited to be a part of it! TIME evaluated the inventions based on originality, effectiveness, ambition and impact.
