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Designing sustainability in the city through a spatially sensitive evaluation approach
No full textIn this paper we propose an integrated urban-building evaluation approach based
on a socio-ecological interpretation of the built environment. Rather than exclusively
emphasising the minimisation of impacts, it aims at supporting sustainable regenerative
urban design processes. Operatively, it assesses the reliability of an action, which is intended
as a mutual resilience between the urban environment and a building. Its focus on the
assessment of reliability improves our ability to design spatially sensitive sustainable built
environments. Thus structured, our urban-building integrated evaluation approach reassigns
to evaluation its role as a support to learning processes in designing the sustainability in the cit
Changing Discourses, Practices and Spaces of Coexistence: Perspectives for the Environmental Regeneration of the Ofanto River Basin
No full textThe aim of this article is to explore how spaces of coexistence are created and emulated in river basin planning and management. The starting-point is the recognition of the crucial concept of integration and its different meanings with regard to the need to overcome fragmentation of knowledge and actions. The article provides an in-depth analysis of discourses and practices taking place in the Ofanto river basin, southern Italy, in the light of social-economic and administrative innovation that is spreading through this area. The analysis reveals the emergence of communities of practices, in which local actors' concepts are debated and hybridized. They are giving rise to new spaces of coexistence and a new discourse on the Ofanto river basin environmental regeneratio
Changing Images and Practices in A Declining “Growth Pole” in Southern Italy: the 'Steel Town' of Taranto
No full textSustainability in the Built Environment: Integrating Scales of Action and Evaluation
No full textUrban sustainability is still far from being reached. This situation testifies the difficulties to plan,
design, implement and manage sustainable development processes in an integrative perspective.
There are several cognitive, political and technological challenges to be faced in order to change this
situation and make sustainabilisation process of the city more effective. In this paper we focus on
issues concerning our ability to learn to integrate social, economic and environmental aspects
through evaluation of sustainability in the city. To oppose the inconsistency of action shown by the
weak results we have obtained from our investments in sustainable development during last decades,
this paper argues that we need to think about sustainability of the built environment and its
evaluation taking into account spatial issues, usually underestimated or assimilated to a problem of
scale in the current evaluation frameworks. Following the results obtained in relation to the
construction of an integrated urban-building evaluation framework, the paper underlines that if
approached as spatially sensitive, evaluation of sustainability carried out at any scale would be aimed
at stimulating the regenerative capacity of places
Culture in movimento e progetti dell’abitare solidale
No full textQuali modalità di azione possono contribuire a risignificare alcuni degli elementi costitutivi dell'abitare quali la convivialità urbana, il senso di appartenenza, la qualità dello spazio fisico, la capacità della città di riconfigurarsi nel cambiamento, in contesti urbani continuamente attraversati da nuove domande di trasformazione culturale? L'esperienza maturata finora mostra la necessità di sviluppare progetti che coinvolgano altri codici rispetto a quelli elaborati per le città consolidata e per le popolazioni radicate. Alcune progettazioni sperimentali di spazi di contatto tra popolazione locale e migranti avviate in Sardegna sulla base del concetto di culture in movimento sembrano offrire una strada per muoversi efficacemente in questa direzione
Partecipazione, Inclusione e Conoscenza Spaziale. Dalle voci della Perifieria alle Sfide Storiche
No full textProgetti effimeri e possibilità di rigenerazione
No full text“Progetti effimeri e possibilità di rigenerazione” esplora il tema dell’effimero come nuovo orizzonte per l’azione nei processi
di rigenerazione urbana. Questa concezione ha avviato sperimentazioni che hanno affrontano problemi di marginalità, dismissione, obsolescenza basandosi sulla forza simbolica e creativa delle azioni di trasformazione provvisoria dei luoghi. In esse, il carattere di transitorietà dell’esperienza spaziale, rispetto alla costruzione duratura e solida dell’architettura e dell’urbanistica, ha offerto modalità più idonee a interpretare i processi in corso e maggiormente capaci di adattarsi alle esigenze di cambiamento attraverso soluzioni che evitano inerzie e distorsioni. Tuttavia la reale efficacia di queste sperimentazioni nell’attivare rigenerazioni strutturali e in grado di contrastare efficacemente dinamiche di esclusione e marginalizzazione rimane una questione aperta nel dibattito disciplinare
Beyond the Built Environment as a Sustainable System: a New Approach to Modelling
No full textThis paper deals with the evaluation of sustainability as a theoretical, methodological and
operational tool to support and improve learning on regenerative transformations of the built
environment. In contrast with the scale-centred approach underlying the existing sustainability
evaluation systems of buildings and urban areas, we propose i-UrBE (integrated-Urban
Building Evaluation) an evaluation approach which draws on a socio-ecological interpretation
of the built environment and is finalised to support a regenerative urban and building design. In
our approach, the evaluation of the sustainability of a building or an urban plan is focused on
reciprocity of interactions between human and non-human world, is carried out in a socio-
ecological space that we define urban matrix and is based on few holistic indicators. These last
are conceived as crucial tools reporting about what we define the reliability of an action, i.e. the
ability of an action addressed to sustainability of buildings or an urban context to stimulate and
transform into capacity the regenerative socio-ecological potential of a specific place.
Moving our work from the theoretical to the operational level, in this paper, we describe the
evolution of i-UrBE approach for evaluating/assessing the regenerative sustainability of built
environment focusing on reciprocity and reliability as crucial keys for an integrated urban-
building evaluation. The paper underlines the relevance of reliability assessment based on few
holistic indicators. In our evaluation approach, reliability reports on reciprocity by highlighting
the ‘co-creative’ qualities of a design action addressed to a building to stimulate regenerative
socio-ecological relationships shaping the built environment. At the operational level,
reciprocity and reliability help to: (i) deal with sustainability in a pragmatic way on qualities
inherent in an integrated process of urban-building design; (ii) improve knowledge generation
on sustainability by enabling actors to identify trends, navigate sustainable transformations and
highlight uncertainties associated with their actions
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