Urban and territorial Functional Creative Diversity. Innovating models fostering territorial and urban systems resilience capacities

Abstract

The pandemic has shown the fragility and inadequacy of the urban and territorial systems in responding to the needs and urgencies of a society in transition. Functional creative diversity (and redundancy) emerges as a crucial property for the resilience of the socio-ecological systems governing the interaction processes between places, people, and nature, constituting a fertile ground for experimentation. The paper presents theoretical considerations and operational proposals rooted in the workshop's outcomes on ‘Functional Creative Diversity. Innovating urban and territorial models’, promoted and organized in 2022 by the REsilienceLab. The paper focuses on two emerging and recurring needs: the experiences of social, food, and resilience hubs as experimentations fostering creative diversity in the process of innovation and re-organizing facilities and services for and of the community and the reconfiguration of alliances generative of synergies between urban and territorial peripheries.

Keywords: resilience, creative diversity, complex systems, functional adequacy, functional redundancy