Scientific Coordinator

Luigi Fusco-Girard

Objectives and contents

The circular economy paradigm promotes sustainable development in its multidimensional perspective. This model, based on the mutual interdependencies between nature and community/culture, aims at reducing resource consumption and waste production, stimulating the introduction of technological/digital innovations. As highlighted by the H2020 CLIC project, the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage, in the circular economy perspective, contributes to implementing the ‘circular city’ model. This implies a change in governance and planning activity itself, identifying the relationships between resource values and community needs, and promoting co-design, co-innovation and co-management. Consistently with the results of the H2020 project, CLIC Italy intends to deepen these research topics in the Italian context to offer an innovative interpretation of the circular adaptive regeneration process applied to cultural heritage.

The main challenge is to address the operational needs related to the ecological and digital transition in the built environment, in particular in historic urban areas, by identifying effective solutions in diverse dimensions (environmental, social, economic, cultural), ensuring the involvement of stakeholders in the design/planning/management decision-making process. The project is aligned with the NRP framework, and in particular with the opportunities related to the management and design/planning of adaptive reuse of the built cultural heritage towards the implementation of circular economy in cities and urban areas.

Research Group IRISS

Pasquale De Toro Massimo Clemente Stefania Oppido

Collaborations

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Featured scientific publications

In progress

Duration

Start 2022 | End 2025

Amount and source of financing

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Administrative reference

DUS.AD017.203 / CLIC Italia

Administrative manager

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