A resilient city is expected to be invulnerable to disasters and, at the same time, livable in daily lives. To achieve resilience and livability in our communities, we need not only urban physical environment but design methods to integrate academic research and knowledge with human activities and social system. As a research base, the Center for Resilient Design (CResD) elaborates resilient design method to return knowledges and information stocked in Kobe University to society for realizing disaster risk reduction. The Center builds an international network in collaboration with domestic and overseas organizations for constructing a safe and secured world. It also ally with projects for integrating humanities and science technology at Kobe University, contributing to the further development of disaster resilient design research.

As a design center at international level, CResD aims at conceiving resilient urban society. It maintains experimental, practical, open and integrated studies in multidisciplinary ways in order to return research results to our societies.