City, public space, architecture. Looking for community

Thinking about the future of the city, public space and architecture after the recent upheavals caused by the pandemic necessarily implies thinking about the idea of community as a vehicle for facing future challenges for the contemporary city. Working on the city does not only involve working on space, but also on the social, economic and cultural fabric. Sustainability of urban and architectural scale projects is here intended not only as an increasing dependency on renewable energy, an implementation of sustainable building materials and many other aspects concerned with sustainable developments, but also, and perhaps especially, as cultural sustainability, according to which the architectural project is placed in an appropriate and congruent way with the elements that characterize the context in which it is placed. We can therefore speak about urban and social sustainability. In this context the school, intended as an educational space for future generations, represents a paradigmatic opportunity for this process of collective, sustainable, urban and social reconstruction. This paper will develop these issues through the presentation of a project, a case study, that underlines an innovative vision for the future of educational spaces.