Resilienza ed economie green per il futuro dell’architettura e dell’ambiente costruito | Resilience and green economies for the future of architecture and the built environment

The first time the main aim of a green and circular economy was stated to be the strengthening of the level of resilience of the built environment was in two international policy documents: one published by UNEP in 2008 and one published by the OECD in 2010, which founded the concept of ‘process circularity’ and that of the ‘green economy’. This debate has only just been outlined and there is still plenty of research to be done, but the potential contribution of Technological Design in Architecture seems key. This paper critically analyses the principles and method- and design-based approaches that can characterise structural strategic measures geared towards improving the resilience of the built environment, as requested by the European Commission, and on the one hand tackles the issue of the ‘measurability’ and ‘assessability’ of such types of measures using the innovative role of the OECD’s recent 2017 Green Growth Indicators, while on the other it deals with the prospects for development in this country, both on a national institutional level and on a local level, primarily gravitating around the strategic working axes that have been outlined by – and continue to be pursued by – the States General of the Green Economy.