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Il volume 13 di AGATHÓN segue il precedente sulla Innovability©® | Transizione Digitale e raccoglie saggi e ricerche su Innovability©® | Transizione Ecologica, consapevole della sua incalzante attualità, ma anche del portato che la proposta di una doppia chiave di interpretazione suggerisce. I contributi del volume ci consegnano riflessioni e traiettorie di ricerca basate sulla necessità di una natura multiscalare degli interventi, che garantisca effetti indotti a un contesto ambientale più ampio di quello di riferimento, e di team che affrontino le criticità con un approccio collaborativo inter e transdisciplinare olistico e sistemico, in una sorta di speciazione delle discipline che ne modifica i tradizionali statuti; ciò che emerge poi è che gli strumenti immateriali e materiali che oggi possiamo mettere in campo sono numerosi grazie anche alle possibilità offerte dalle tecnologie digitali nelle diverse fasi progettuali, realizzative e gestionali del processo. AGATHÓN Volume 13 follows its predecessor on Innovability©® | Digital Transition and collects essays and research on Innovability©® | Ecological Transition, aware of its pressing relevance, but also of the scope suggested by the proposed dual key of interpretation. The published papers convey several reflections and research trajectories based on the need for a multiscalar nature of interventions, which guarantees effects that are induced to a broader environmental context than the one of reference, and for teams that address critical issues with a holistic and systemic inter- and transdisciplinary collaborative approach, in a sort of speciation of disciplines that modifies their traditional statutes; what emerges then is that the intangible and material tools we can deploy today are numerous also thanks to the possibilities offered by digital technologies in the different design, implementation and management phases of the process

Un inarrestabile cambiamento nel paradigma con cui l’uomo concepisce la propria specie rispetto ai suoi modi di costruire è alla base dell’attrattiva per l’incorporazione del vegetale nell’Architettura. Lo statuto euristico di maggiore capacità di tale nuovo corso è la sostituzione progressiva dell’Ambiente alla Natura fra i motori della Composizione. Su questo sfondo, l’articolo indaga l’ibridazione del vegetale e del costruito nella trasformazione contemporanea delle grandi autostrade urbane, attraverso un approccio diacronico e comparativo, in riferimento a una ricerca internazionale di cui estende l’ipotesi principale. A tal fine, ricostruisce il telaio ermeneutico di riferimento discutendo in modo progressivo gli argomenti teorici, approfondendo approcci e casi progettuali, fra cui quello applicativo elaborato per la trasformazione della circonvallazione di Palermo. An unstoppable shift in the paradigm underlying mankind’s conception of its species’ building modalities is at the root of the interest in embedding greenery in Architecture. The most capable heuristic statute of such a new course is the progressive substitution of Environment for Nature among Design drivers. Within this frame, this paper investigates the hybridisation of greenery and the built environment in the contemporary transformation of large urban highways through a diachronic and comparative approach, referencing international research and expanding its main hypothesis. With this purpose, it reconstructs the hermeneutic reference frame by progressively discussing the theoretical arguments, deepening approaches, and design cases, among which the applicative one elaborated for the transformation of Palermo's ring road.

As indicated by the UN 2030 Agenda, Ecological Transition is at the basis of the new development model to reduce polluting emissions, prevent and combat land disruption, minimise the impact of productive activities on the environment and improve the quality of life and environmental security for future generations: on the one hand, orienting an ecological transition towards equity and collective well-being means rethinking the system of relations between man and the natural and built environment and, on the other hand, referring to the construction of social and cultural communities starting from environmental issues and land resources. In light of the above, this paper intends to reflect on the not-always-linear working method of the appropriation and transformation of open space concerning the definition of ‘fourth nature’ and ‘urban nature’ through three emblematic case studies. The aim is to go beyond the strictly anthropocentric view by focusing on the role of nature in the city through a selection, albeit not exhaustive, of innovative approaches to sustainable cities, the fight against climate change and the restoration of ecosystems, in a perspective of multi-species integration and the creation of regenerative ecosystems in the urban environment.

Il contributo mette a fuoco l’interazione fra la progettazione urbana e le strategie per il contenimento del riscaldamento globale costruendo un ragionamento che partendo dall’eredità del Movimento Moderno, include gli esiti delle ricerche più recenti. Da tale base di partenza scientifica emerge come protagonista la tesi fondata sull’aumento della vegetazione in ambito urbano, come strumento indispensabile alla mitigazione delle temperature. Tale proposta trova, nel corso dell’approfondimento, una verifica sperimentale attraverso alcune concrete esperienze di progettazione che coniugano l’obiettivo ambientale avendo cura, al contempo, della qualità degli spazi dell’abitare. I progetti dimostrano come il duplice obiettivo (contenimento del riscaldamento globale e qualità degli spazi dell’abitare) rimanga costante, indipendentemente dalle scale di intervento, a testimonianza di una complessiva trasformazione culturale che prende corpo dall’architettura degli interni al territorio. The paper focuses on the relationship between urban planning and global warming mitigation strategies by constructing an argument that, starting from the legacy of the Modern Movement, includes the outcomes of more recent research. The thesis founded on the increase of vegetation in urban areas as an indispensable tool for temperature mitigation emerges as the protagonist from this scientific starting point. In the course of this in-depth study, this proposal finds an experimental verification through some concrete design experiences that combine the environmental objective while taking care of the quality of living spaces. The projects demonstrate how the twofold objective (containment of global warming and quality of living spaces) remains constant regardless of the scales of intervention, testifying to an overall cultural transformation that takes shape from interior architecture to the territory.

The contribution introduces the topic covered by vol. 12 of AGATHÓN through essays, studies, research and projects on Innovability©® | Digital Transition to investigate the current widespread transformation that unites dichotomies (analogue and digital), enhances oxymorons (artificial intelligence), creates paradoxes (materiality of the intangible), while indiscriminately involving architecture, humanities and social sciences, anthropology, sociology, ecology, biology, physical-mathematical sciences and neurosciences, with impacts that – while already visible today and accelerated in part by the extraordinary global health emergency – will become even more evident in the medium and long term. A ‘digital’ transformation, which academics such as Floridi (2020) and Galimberti (2020), but also Haraway (2018), Searle (2017) and Chomsky (2011), have placed on a primarily ontological and epistemological level insofar as it involves the essence of ‘things,’ the way we define them, the world around us, and in particular our relationship with the elements that constitute it.

How can it be possible to work salvifically on an asphyxiated society that is beingdragged down by turbo-capitalism, the ‘soft tyranny’ of algorithms and ‘data-cracy’and marked by hegemonic and centralised socio-technical systems? Starting from the-oretical reflections and multidisciplinary contributions, this paper focuses on the strate-gic importance of techno-social innovation, critically illustrating some significant design-driven experiences that outline innovative lines of development in the field of design re-search: WASP’s experimental activity (3D printing), Manzini’s reflections on hybrid localcommunities and cities in chaotic mutation, the projects of hacktivists Persico and Ia-conesi on open source artificial intelligence, the experiences of frugal technological in-novation with high social impact in the Planet’s most challenging economic, environ-mental and social contexts, and, finally, the bold projections on the food of the futurewith the related problematic experiments on production systems and lifestyles.

The present social and environmental challenges, the impact of climate change and the pandemic, revealed the urgency and the opportunity to rethink urban design through its renewed spaces and temporalities. The pandemic offered a ‘natural experiment’ to explore and develop new perspectives, making public spaces more resilient. Contributing towards a rethink of these spaces, the present paper explores adaptive architecture with responsive technologies and their capability of shaping public spaces to constitute a conversation piece with the surrounding environment. This approach combines and reflects different disciplinary fields: architecture, civic interaction and urban design. The exploration works around a speculative design case – produced as part of broader research at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science in collaboration with the Master in Digital Design.

I crescenti fenomeni legati al cambiamento climatico spingono le città a sviluppare piani di resilienza che possano rispondere in termini di sostenibilità ambientale, sociale ed economica. Le strategie nature-based possono rappresentare una soluzione; tra queste l’agricoltura urbana può contribuire ad aumentare la resilienza dei tessuti urbani europei. Questa attività è stata più volte oggetto di interesse in periodi di crisi come impegno comunitario dai caratteri sociali, oltre che produttivi ed educativi. Attraverso un excursus storico e una successiva analisi di casi studio contemporanei, il paper fornisce strumenti progettuali per intervenire nel costruito con strategie che spaziano dalla scala urbana a quella dell’architettura. Il saggio presenta un approccio morfo-tipologico replicabile che può essere applicato e utilizzato da progettisti e policy-makers al f ine di incrementare la resilienza urbana. The growing phenomena linked to climate change pushes cities to develop resilience plans to respond to environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Nature-based strategies can be a solution; among these, urban agriculture can increase the resilience of European urban fabrics. This activity has been the object of interest several times during crises or as a community activity with social, productive, and educational characteristics. Through a historical excursus and a subsequent analysis of contemporary case studies, the paper provides design tools for intervening in the built environment with strategies ranging from the urban to the architectural scale. The essay presents a replicable morpho-typological approach that can be applied and used by planners and policymakers to increase urban resilience.