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TECHNE n.32/2026

Published Maggio 15, 2026

Exploring Design Methods for Digital Cultural Heritage Communities. The case of the IMPULSE Project

Margherita Ascari¹, Elena Formia¹, Valentina Gianfrate¹, Lorela Mehmeti¹,

¹Department of Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italia

Abstract

The article presents the process of creating a Community of Practice within the Horizon Europe project IMPULSE, which explores how immersive technologies enhance access to digital cultural heritage (CH). The IMPULSE Community of Practice (IMCo) connects academics, students, CCI professionals, and artists with diverse expertise in CH. Rooted in Heritage Communities and Plural Design Communities literature, the study aligns with the Faro Convention and debates on democratic heritage management, framing heritage as a common good. It emphasizes technology’s role in heritage narration and valorization, while outlining the IMCo’s activation and results over three years. The article proposes a replicable model for hybrid community interaction, aiming to overcome fragmentation and foster integrated, collaborative ecosystems for cultural heritage.

Primary Contact: Margherita Ascari, margherita.ascari2@unibo.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20014

Public Space as Dynamic Heritage. Urban Regeneration, Urban Safety and Spatial Justice

Roberto Bolici¹

¹Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Abstract

The paper proposes a reinterpretation of public space as dynamic heritage and a strategic infrastructure of the contemporary city. In response to environmental crises, socio-spatial inequalities and the growing demand for safety, a theoretical-operational model is developed that integrates vulnerability analysis, design strategies and multidimensional evaluation tools. The model is based on four key principles: ecological integration, universal accessibility, integrated urban safety and community activation. The analysis of recent European experiences in Barcelona, Rotterdam and Paris shows how public space regeneration can contribute to urban resilience, social cohesion and the promotion of spatial justice

Primary Contact: Roberto Bolici, roberto.bolici@polimi.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20158

Towards the Recovery Plan of Monte Testaccio: a systemic and multidisciplinary approach

Michele Conteduca¹, Eliana Cangelli¹, Fabrizio Finucci², Valerio Fonti¹, Antonella Giulia Masanotti², Daniele Mazzoni²

¹Department of Architecture and Design, Sapienza University di Rome, Italy

²Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy

Abstract

The paper presents the results of research aimed at activating a regenerative process for Monte Testaccio in Rome, through the development of guidelines for the Recovery Plan, set within the Testaccio District Masterplan. Conducted for Roma Capitale by an interdisciplinary team from various universities, the research proposes a systemic and multidisciplinary methodology that integrates heritage conservation, public space enhancement, and climate adaptation. The Plan's guidelines aim to integrate technological innovation and design culture within recovery processes, outlining a strategic vision supported by an evaluative framework designed to guide the regeneration of complex heritage contexts using performance-based impact indicators.

Primary Contact: Michele Conteduca, michele.conteduca@uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20161

Production margins: from industrial heritage to socio-ecological regeneration

Marco Delli Paoli¹, Maria Beatrice Andreucci²

¹Department of Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

²Department of History, Representation, Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Abstract

The contribution sets out a nexus-based framework for the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage, integrating Water, Energy, and Carbon (WEC) with "Degree of Conservation," Governance Intensity, and Multiscalarity. The model was applied to 15 international case studies, and an "Integrated Index" (0–9) was introduced to assess the degree of metabolic integration in relation to protection, scale of intervention, and institutional capacity. The findings indicate that the most robust configurations emerge at the district level, characterised by significant structural conservation and structured governance. The proposed framework offers a replicable systemic metric with the potential to guide post-industrial regeneration in the ecological transition in a comparable and transparent manner

Primary Contact: Marco Delli Paoli, marco.dellipaoli@uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20010

Heritage, margins, innovation: the FORWARD LLab for circular transition in Alta Irpinia

Katia Fabbricatti¹, Marina Block¹, Massimo Perriccioli¹

¹Department of Architecture, University of Naples, Italy

Abstract

In fragile territories, ecological, social, and digital transitions risk becoming decontextualized processes when implemented through standardized models. This article proposes embracing local assets as operational infrastructures for the project, interpreting the margins as places of experimentation for situated innovation trajectories. Drawing on the FoRWARD project, the Living Lab experience in Alta Irpinia is conceived as a tool for building demand for innovation, capable of surfacing the latent needs and potential of micro-enterprises and communities. The project's main outcome is the establishment of a local Academy as a training and production infrastructure for a circular transition rooted in local contexts.

Primary Contact: Katia Fabbricatti katia.fabbricatti@unina.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20018

Beyond the Nature–Heritage Divide: A Biocultural Perspective on Historic Urban Landscapes

Maria Stella Lux¹

¹Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italia

Abstract

Although contemporary policies promote renaturing approaches to address emerging urban challenges, the nature–heritage divide continues to influence management practices in historic urban centers, where vegetation is perceived as a threat rather than a structural component. Drawing on the Historic Urban Landscape approach and the concept of biocultural heritage, the paper interprets the historic city as the outcome of co-evolution between ecological systems, cultural practices, and the built fabric. Through the case of Milan, compared with recent strategies implemented in Paris, it proposes a dynamic understanding of urban heritage that integrates transformation and recognizes vegetation as living heritage capable of shaping more resilient urban futures

Primary Contact: Maria Stella Lux, mariastella.lux@polimi.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-12584

Caring for the Modern: knowledge, design and community in Matera's neighbourhoods

Spartaco Paris¹, Carlo Vannini¹, Francesco Maggiore², Carlo Picerno³, Georg Josef Frisch⁴

¹DISG - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica, Sapienza – Università di Roma, Italia

²DIUSS - Dipartimento per l’Innovazione Umanistica, Scientifica e Sociale, Università degli studi della Basilicata, Matera, Italia

³DiAP - Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Sapienza – Università di Roma, Italia

⁴DeAssociati srl, Roma, Italia

Abstract

The present essay proposes a theoretical–operative framework for caring for ordinary modern heritage. This is understood as a proximity-based heritage exposed to transformation and conflicts of use. Utilising Matera's contemporary residential districts as a case study, the text delves into the formulation of a neighbourhood-scale governance apparatus grounded in schede norma: instruments that translate social listening, morpho-spatial analysis and technological compatibility into quantifiable criteria and conditions for intervention. Care is defined as a measured, reversible and relational action, capable of avoiding both prescriptive rigidity and genericity. The paper under discussion highlights implications for public space and everyday management, as well as limits and prospects for updating and transferability.

Primary Contact: Spartaco Paris, spartaco.paris@uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20006

Marginal heritages and food systems: an urban living lab between care and creativity

Beatrice Turillazzi¹, Michele D’Ostuni², Rossella Roversi¹, Lorenzo Brunello¹

¹Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Italy

²Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

Abstract

This contribution investigates how food-system Living Labs can function as enabling infrastructures for the reactivation of tangible and intangible heritage in marginal contexts undergoing intertwined climate-environmental and socio-economic transitions. Building on the European project REDESIGN (GA 101182261), it examines the integrated role of cultural and creative industries (CCIs), craft practices, and circular-economy networks in transforming underused spaces into sites of cultural production, biodiversity enhancement, and social cohesion. The empirical basis comprises three European Living Labs: a social-housing neighbourhood (Teviot, London), a peri-urban system of cultural orchards (Salt, Girona), and a city-wide network for the right to food (Dortmund). Through participatory action research, co-design, and methodological evaluation, the paper proposes an interpretive model that distinguishes three modes of relationship between marginal heritage and food systems - heritage-as-space, heritage-as-landscape, and heritage-as-governance - and analyses their spatial-functional outcomes, conditions of transferability, and the role of CCIs as agents of activation, translation, and cultural maintenance.

Primary Contact: Beatrice Turillazzi, beatrice.turillazzi@unibo.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20004

Data-driven management of usability. A platform for the national museum system

Teresa Villani¹, Gianmauro Romagna², Angelo Oddi²,Federica Romagnoli¹

¹Department of Urban Planning, Design, Architectural Technology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

²CNR ISTC - National Research Council, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome, Italy

Abstract

Framing digitalisation as an opportunity for heritage governance, this contribution introduces predictive usability as a paradigm for rethinking museums as dynamic and inclusive ecosystems. To this end, it presents an open-source platform that integrates spatial, behavioural, and accessibility data to support the management of sites within the National Museum System. The validation process, conducted with the Regional Directorate for Museums of Lazio and the Archaeological Museum of the Italic Peoples “Amedeo Maiuri” in Veroli, verified the platform’s operational robustness with respect to the contents of the PEBA and, through simulated datasets, to patterns of spatial and content use. The results confirm its reliability as a decision-support tool and highlight its potential scalability in more complex museum contexts.

Primary Contact: Teresa Villani, teresa.villani@uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-19992

Towards the Recovery Plan of Monte Testaccio: a systemic and multidisciplinary approach

Michele Conteduca¹, Eliana Cangelli¹, Fabrizio Finucci², Valerio Fonti¹, Antonella Giulia Masanotti², Daniele Mazzoni²

¹Department of Architecture and Design, Sapienza University di Rome, Italy

²Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy

Abstract

Primary Contact: Michele Conteduca, michele.conteduca@uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20161

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TECHNE Special Series n.4/2026

Published Agosto 8, 2026

The Other Adaptive Dwellings: Charlotte Perriand’s Experimental Housing Modules

Vincenzo Paolo Bagnato¹,

¹Department of Architecture, Construction and Design, Politecnico di Bari, Italia

Abstract

The topic of adaptive living, in its cultural dimension, does not appear entirely new within the field of technological culture in architecture and design. Various experiences from the past have explored living from an adaptive perspective, with important developments that engaged with the technological, productive, and socio-economic conditions of the contexts in which they emerged. The renewed need to reflect on this theme inevitably requires a re-examination of these past experiences, precisely because of their cultural nature rather than their purely technical or scientific aspects. Among these experiences, particularly significant is that of Charlotte Perriand’s habitat objects, innovative in their flexibility, adaptability, and temporariness, whose constructive vision appears remarkably compatible with the paradigms of contemporary adaptive living

Primary Contact: Vincenzo Paolo Bagnato, vincenzopaolo.bagnato@poliba.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20676

Migrant dwelling and informality: “Permanent Temporariness” as an operational field for design

Enzo Carannante¹,

¹DiARC – Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Italia

Abstract

In the current global context, migration processes affect the housing crisis by producing a regime of precarity that finds one of its most visible manifestations in informality. Rather than being an exception, this form of “Permanent Temporariness” represents a widespread response to housing instability and reveals the structural limitations of institutional interventions. The ecological, social, and technical dimensions of informal dwelling highlight bottom-up strategies for “inhabiting the crisis” and show that the crisis does not lie only in the lack of housing, but also in the rupture of the relationship between dwelling and technology. “Permanent Temporariness” is therefore reinterpreted as an operational condition guiding design towards renewed scenarios of housing transition

Primary Contact: Enzo Carannante, enzo.carannante@unina.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20710

Towards the Recovery Plan of Monte Testaccio: a systemic and multidisciplinary approach

Lucila Castañeda Aller¹,Caterina Padoa Schioppa²

¹ETSAVA, University of Valladolid, Spain

²DiAP, Sapienza University of Rome, Italia

Abstract

In the Catalan-Balearic territory, several recent residential practices reveal a convergence between the reinterpretation of spatial apparatuses traditionally capable of generating community and a return to local techniques, materials, and supply chains. This article argues that these two tendencies, commonly read as distinct phenomena, are in fact two scales of a single process – an effect arising from touristic, environmental, and economic pressure, and, more broadly, from the limit reached by modern individualization. By examining works of public and communal housing, the article delineates an emerging field of "appropriate dwelling" in which cross-scalar coherence becomes the instrument through which architecture contributes to the formation of local communities.

Primary Contact: Caterina Padoa Schioppa, caterina.padoaschioppa@uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20707

Adaptive living environments and collective intelligence: digital innovation for a realisable utopia

Roberto Cognoli¹, Timothy Daniel Brownlee¹

¹DSchool of Architecture and Design “Eduardo Vittoria”, University of Camerino, Italia

Abstract

This essay examines adaptive inhabitation as a paradigm that the twentieth century formulated without the tools to translate it into practice. Friedman, Habraken, Price and Archigram placed spatial evolution over time at the centre; what was lacking was the infrastructure able to make it operational. Today, the digital transition introduces an epistemic discontinuity: reading space as a dynamic system and turning the knowledge produced into a collective resource (Lévy, 1994). The gap between digital legibility and physical transformability remains open. The contribution proposes predisposition to variability as a way to address it: data as a common good, rules as a design object, coordination between the two intelligences, and transformability as an incremental horizon.

Primary Contact: Roberto Cognoli, roberto.cognoli@unicam.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20704

Technology and dwelling models: from twentieth-century prototypes to digital fabrication

Michele Conteduca¹

¹Department of Architecture and Design, Sapienza University di Rome, Italy

Abstract

The essay interprets the dwelling prototype as a critical device through which to read the relationship between technology, production models and cultures of dwelling. From industrial prefabrication to twentieth-century experiments and digital fabrication, it reconstructs continuities and discontinuities among standardisation, personalisation and adaptability. The thesis is that the prototype does not belong only to the history of technical utopia, but still provides a means of testing new balances among domestic space, construction processes, environmental crises and social transformations.

Primary Contact: Michele Conteduca, michele.conteduca@uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20712

Towards the Recovery Plan of Monte Testaccio: a systemic and multidisciplinary approach

Martina Corti¹,Jia Guo¹, Stefano Follesa¹

¹Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italia

Abstract

Contemporary urban transformations reveal how the housing crisis exceeds the domain of housing itself, affecting the conditions that make urban space accessible and practicable. This paper interprets public space as a “non-habitational fiction”, designed without engaging with the distributed labour through which the city is kept operational. Drawing on critical housing studies, infrastructure studies, and maintenance ecologies, the contribution proposes understanding dwelling as the operational work of producing urban continuity. On this basis, it introduces the notion of urban custodianship and interprets Design as an infrastructuring practice capable of intervening in the regimes of access, permanence, and continuity that shape urban space

Primary Contact: Martina Corti, martina.corti@unifi.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20698

Co-producing Rural Habitat: Technological Appropriation and Participatory Design in Colombia

Freddy Diaz-Diaz¹, Laura Sanabria¹, Ludovica Simionato²,Elio Trusiani³

¹Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, Universidad de La Salle, Colombia

²School of Architecture and Design SAAD, Università di Camerino, Italy

³Department of Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Abstract

This article analyzes the co-production of rural housing in Colombia as a socio-ecological process that challenges conventional housing models based on standardized solutions. Drawing on approaches such as knowledge dialogue, co-design, assisted self-construction, and technological appropriation, it presents Casa Raíz, a participatory action-research program developed in Boyacá, Colombia. Conceived as a relational and pedagogical tool, Casa Raíz integrates territorial assessment, collaborative design, and natural building to co-produce housing and strengthen local autonomy. The results include the construction of a rural home using local materials and collective learning processes that redefine the architect’s role as a facilitator of territorial transitions

Primary Contact: Freddy Diaz-Diaz, frdiaz@unisalle.edu.co

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20711

Reframing Open Building for Contemporary Dwelling: Technology, Flexibility and Adaptability

Valerio Fonti¹,

¹Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia

Abstract

The paper offers a reinterpretation of N. J. Habraken’s Open Building theory in response to the crisis of the twentieth-century residential model, characterised by typological rigidity, technical obsolescence, and limited adaptability to changing patterns of dwelling. Beginning with the distinction between support and infill, the article views the building as a layered system that combines permanence with transformability. By analysing contemporary experiments, it demonstrates how mass customisation, advanced prefabrication, dry construction systems, and new commissioning models can enable personalisation, replicability, and long-term adaptability. Open Building thus emerges as a critical and practical framework for rethinking residential design amid the contemporary housing crisis

Primary Contact: Valerio Fonti, valerio.fonti@uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20702

Abitare l'Estremo: l’Architettura Spaziale come Laboratorio di Progettazione

Marina Tornatora¹, Giacomo D’Amico¹

¹Dipartimento di Architettura e Design, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italia

Abstract

Il contributo esplora la progettazione per ambienti estremi ed extraterrestri come frontiera sperimentale per modelli abitativi terrestri resilienti a crisi climatica e scarsità di risorse. Interpretando l’habitat come organismo metabolico, si propone un ribaltamento di paradigma: superare l’approccio puramente ingegneristico attraversi il progetto architettonico, integrando requisiti tecnici, abitabilità e benessere psicofisico. L’analisi critico-comparativa di 930 progetti (1850-2025) del database Space Architecture Data Archive (SADA), individua invarianti tipologiche e strategie spaziali adattive, prefigurando una “temporaneità permanente”, in cui strutture leggere, modulari e scalabili rispondono adattivamente a condizioni ambientali variabili ed esigenze abitative emergenti

Primary Contact: Marina Tornatora, mtornatora@unirc.it

DOI: 10.36253/techne-20715