“The Energy dimension in the Design for Building and Urban Resilience”

In the age of the environmental and economic crisis, characterized by cli-mate changes as a worldwide constant threat and by environmental emergen-cies linked mainly to the scarcity of resources to which the energy question is inseparably linked, the intervention ability of human societies to mitigate the causes of primary problems and adapt to their main effects is assuming a cen-tral role. In this context, international research and experimentation as of today put their focus without a doubt on the need of systematically tackling the question of the ‘energy dimension’ in the light of the renewed concept of resilience, at various scales and in different contexts. In particular, this key concept - focused on the close synergies between the two factors of the ‘energy issue’ and the ability to give answers in terms of adaptability and flexibility - is capable of supporting the ‘vulnerable’ systems (human societies, organizations, citizens, built environment in which living is implemented) to resist and even to thrive in a standard of struggle against changes and frantic response to emergencies.