Skysource and Resilience Lab

Part think-tank, part consultancy, Resilience Lab is a new studio within S.E.A. focused on climate adaptation and survival. While S.E.A. designs buildings that mitigate damage to the natural environment, Resilience Lab prepares people for the worst consequences of global climate change.

While the scale of work varies, it is united by environmental adaptation. Many projects specifically pertain to disaster preparedness in the built environment. The Resilience 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 around the world, a social infrastructure to address the alarming realities of anthropogenic climate change.

Resilience Lab evolved from Skysource, the grand-prize-winning team of the Water Abundance XPRIZE. During the XPRIZE competition, Skysource created WEDEW—the only competing technology to extract over 2,000 liters of water over a 24-hours, using only renewable energy less than $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. Since winning the XPRIZE, WeDew has gained recognition worldwide, including becoming a finalist in two categories of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2019 and being selected as one of the Best Inventions of 2020 by TIME. In 2022, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum awarded the National Design Award to David Hertz for Climate Action.

Visit Skysource to learn more about WEDEW and our efforts to democratize water.