Reinventare è una cosa seria: Quattro operazioni elementari

Abstract

Reinventing is an action and a key concept of our time: reinventing uses, practices, things, places, spaces, ready-made formulas which have always worked and no longer appear to be adequate today, if we want to face the challenges of global changes.Contemporary environmental and social emergencies drive us to observe with a different look also landscapes of everyday life and to re-read design practices to orientate them towards new quality targets. Daily news and thoughts on climate change, on pollution in our cities or on the gigantic numbers of big data, influence methods and technical and operational tools of the different disciplines, pushing design practice towards the construction of answers rather than the elaboration of possible solutions, of goals rather than ideas. If on one hand this transition drives us to constantly revise our approach to design, on the other hand it maybe drives to overlook those elementary operations which characterize the creative process and allow to transform parts of landscape and spatial or cultural resources, reinventing them.