#CASA È DOVE C’È #CUORE

The vision that architects and town planners have of a city has changed rapidly and with a new focus compared to the past. Until a few years ago, cities were seen solely as a succession of layers of its citizens’ main needs, without paying heed to the consequences that these changes would have in ecological and social terms in years to come. We are paying the price now.
In particular the transition from small businesses to heavy industry in the 1960s caught the town planners of a young Italy poorly equipped to interpret the future of these new industrial centres which have become authentic architectural and environmental emergencies.
Today thanks to the technology available to us, we can analyse an enormous amount of data gathered mostly in public spaces, generated by nomadic working as we move from city to city. Nowadays we have the capability to measure and redesign the space we live in both actively and passively.
There are many applications and from an ecological point of view there are two aspects. We can plan systems precisely and in detail, for example optimisation of traffic flow to guarantee free flowing traffic in cities to cut down on emissions, but the other more important aspect is to consider how big data can bring us, as citizens, a greater awareness of what is happening around us. We have a unique opportunity today, perhaps for the first time, to understand better the consequences of our actions and to behave differently, more responsibly.
This is a component of the city of tomorrow, where can express ourselves and to some extent control the strategies from the bottom up and develop our territory as an active part of it.

Nowadays, if we put ourselves at the centre of the digital vision that uses statistical analysis and benchmarking as its points of reference, we can understand the reason for proposing the model of an intelligent city, where the aim in its development is the solution of particular needs of the community. The are international examples, Singapore, which is putting its energy into mobility, Copenhagen working for sustainability, Boston which is placing considerable emphasis on technology empowering its citizens in urban management.
For this to happen the organisations supplying services have to be proactive and not to be conditioned by psychological hang-ups and the external environmental circumstances, reacting to budgeting necessities and the pulverisation of public spending in a responsible and conscientious way.
The challenges that this proposal tackles can be grouped into three categories:

• greater attention to creativity in technological processes
• greater attention to creativity in social processes
• greater attention to creativity in decision making processes

These three big categories should be applied with a strong interconnection between sustainability, research and empowerment of the capacity to network.
The organisation of these opportunities (necessity vs possibility) in a city in all its forms, should be a tool to forge stronger relationships in society, the economy and the environment.