The economic-financial crisis in 2008 and the pandemic in 2020, have placed the issue of rehabilitation of the built environment back at the center of the urban and architectural debate, with particular emphasis on social, environmental and feasibility issues. In this sense, the crisis represents an important watershed, as it not only brought about new economic, political, social and technological conditions, such as restoring the focus on the built environment, but also encouraged the spread of alternative modes of intervention to the existing ones. These include forms of urban regeneration via social innovation designed to respond to the actual problems of civil society, which traditional public and private actors can no longer cope with. Urban reactivation shares this approach, focusing on the many unused urban spaces which, due to their characteristics, don’t match the interests of the private/public operators. This book deals with the theme of urban reactivation as a particular form of regeneration intervention, which in addition to the physical-spatial dimension of the places also—and above all—considers the social and relational dynamics that the intervention is able to activate. In this sense, the concept of activation (or reactivation) emphasizes the act of putting something into or back into operation, whether it concerns the material components of a container (a building or a place) or the immaterial components of a content (a need, a function), starting from the exploitation of opportunities that the architectural project contributes to revealing, developing and accompanying. At the center of the topic are public and/or private spaces and buildings that have lost their original purpose—or never had one—and are in need of actions to define or redefine their uses in relation to the needs of today's world. These spaces represent important territorial resources from which to activate the local community and trigger transformations capable of producing socio-spatial effects.
Fanzini, D., Venturini, G., Zreika, N., Celaschi, F., Zannoni, M., Cattabriga, A. (2025). Riattivazione dell’Ambiente costruito. Cham : Springer [10.1007/978-3-031-96138-0].
Riattivazione dell’Ambiente costruito
Celaschi, Flaviano
;Zannoni, Michele;Cattabriga, Andrea
2025
Abstract
The economic-financial crisis in 2008 and the pandemic in 2020, have placed the issue of rehabilitation of the built environment back at the center of the urban and architectural debate, with particular emphasis on social, environmental and feasibility issues. In this sense, the crisis represents an important watershed, as it not only brought about new economic, political, social and technological conditions, such as restoring the focus on the built environment, but also encouraged the spread of alternative modes of intervention to the existing ones. These include forms of urban regeneration via social innovation designed to respond to the actual problems of civil society, which traditional public and private actors can no longer cope with. Urban reactivation shares this approach, focusing on the many unused urban spaces which, due to their characteristics, don’t match the interests of the private/public operators. This book deals with the theme of urban reactivation as a particular form of regeneration intervention, which in addition to the physical-spatial dimension of the places also—and above all—considers the social and relational dynamics that the intervention is able to activate. In this sense, the concept of activation (or reactivation) emphasizes the act of putting something into or back into operation, whether it concerns the material components of a container (a building or a place) or the immaterial components of a content (a need, a function), starting from the exploitation of opportunities that the architectural project contributes to revealing, developing and accompanying. At the center of the topic are public and/or private spaces and buildings that have lost their original purpose—or never had one—and are in need of actions to define or redefine their uses in relation to the needs of today's world. These spaces represent important territorial resources from which to activate the local community and trigger transformations capable of producing socio-spatial effects.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
