Prospecting Socially-Aware Concepts and Artefacts for Designing for Community Resilience

De ning exible and consistent methods and artefacts to design for social impact is a current challenge for HCI. The ephemeral and vulnerable conditions of people living as refugees add even more questions about the suitability of design methods to the complexity of real — and many times tough — life . In this position paper we brie y introduce two concepts embraced by the Socially-aware Design Approach, the Semiotic Onion and the Basic Block of Culture. We then re ect about the potential contributions of applying these concepts and artefacts to inform design for boosting community resilience of people living as refugees.