Resilience and technological innovation: new trends in research

The increasing availability of solutions able to give the artefacts adaptive behaviours, together with the awareness of the negative environmental effects induced by the “static” approach, are the elements that impose resilience as an essential requirement to be met in the design of the spaces and of objects, at all scales. The paradigm of resilience, in its multiple connotations, has aroused intense mobilization in the disciplines of the project. Where, in the last decade, it has become a crucial objective to orientate the project of the transformation of the environment, especially the anthropized one. This involves many implications: on social, environmental and settlement level, as well as on building materials and components and their behaviour, up to the structures and constituents of the matter they are made of. The essay discusses some implications induced by this dynamic, especially focusing on three of them: the need for methods and tools to measure the resilience; the demand for new materials providing building enhanced resilience features (building materials from waste, self-repairing materials, corrosion-resistant inorganic coatings), the inescapable reshaping of the building process, involving new responsibilities for all the actors involved.