SUSTAINABLE EVERYDAY: Scenarios of Urban Life
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What could life be like in a sustainable society? What features are common to any sustainable society we can imagine today? And how wide a range of choice could we have, starting from these common elements?
SUSTAINABLE EVERYDAY lays out the state-of-the-art answers available to these questions today and, from this point, indicates possible ways ahead.
The ideas and proposals presented are, or seek to be, cosmopolitan: ideas and proposals which originate locally, but which are endowed with the energy necessary to spread throughout the planet and adapt to differing specific local circumstances.
All this is developed considering the wide, but not all-embracing, field of the dimensions of our everyday existence (the world seen by those who live in it), with particular reference to the urban environment (both historical cities and the new conurbations to come).
So the exhibition deals with the future of "dwelling", but does so from a totally different perspective compared to the way many previous examples have led us to imagine the "house of the future". It does not focus on new ways in which technology could redefine traditional functions, but rather centres on the new "living strategies" that are emerging, becoming possible and, for some at least, desirable today. These are living strategies which result from social and system, rather than technological, innovation. It is these forms of social innovation that are at the centre of attention paid to new visions which are emerging and to the possible futures which could derive from them.
Sustainable everyday talks of the future, but it is not about the future. It is an exhibition for the future: a means of steering (or trying to steer) the future. It does not show "things never seen before" (these belong to a would-be future) but it presents "current signals" which seem justifiably promising. On this ground we can lay out "tendency maps" and possible scenarios, in other words, instruments by which to fuel social conversation about the ways, means and timing of a transition towards sustainability.
SUSTAINABLE EVERYDAY lays out the state-of-the-art answers available to these questions today and, from this point, indicates possible ways ahead.
The ideas and proposals presented are, or seek to be, cosmopolitan: ideas and proposals which originate locally, but which are endowed with the energy necessary to spread throughout the planet and adapt to differing specific local circumstances.
All this is developed considering the wide, but not all-embracing, field of the dimensions of our everyday existence (the world seen by those who live in it), with particular reference to the urban environment (both historical cities and the new conurbations to come).
So the exhibition deals with the future of "dwelling", but does so from a totally different perspective compared to the way many previous examples have led us to imagine the "house of the future". It does not focus on new ways in which technology could redefine traditional functions, but rather centres on the new "living strategies" that are emerging, becoming possible and, for some at least, desirable today. These are living strategies which result from social and system, rather than technological, innovation. It is these forms of social innovation that are at the centre of attention paid to new visions which are emerging and to the possible futures which could derive from them.
Sustainable everyday talks of the future, but it is not about the future. It is an exhibition for the future: a means of steering (or trying to steer) the future. It does not show "things never seen before" (these belong to a would-be future) but it presents "current signals" which seem justifiably promising. On this ground we can lay out "tendency maps" and possible scenarios, in other words, instruments by which to fuel social conversation about the ways, means and timing of a transition towards sustainability.
