Flexible Design to Territory Smart User-Centered

The contemporary city is an organism that lives of connection and relationship between the different element and layers that it is made and of everything that exists around it; the same concept of city has radically changed. The speed at which the social and economic context changes, the uncertainty of the tastes and the interests of consumers make spaces unable to be rigidly characterized based on a function but need to be flexible to be readapted to the needs that users are faced with from time to time. Where a space was defined for the positioning of an activity or a service (useful to living in stability the territory), the user change (population made mostly of children, elder people, people with mental and physical disabilities, the poor or temporary city-users) involves rethinking the organization of the city about a new programmatic flexibility model is based on a “logistically open” structure, programmable by subsequent additions and “self- evolutionary” from an organizational point of view (in which the evolution of a part leads to the evolution of the whole). Then a Healthy City that bases its organization on the relationship between design-man environment, where the design is one of basic human activities – implementing such strategies as to allow humans to improve their living conditions in their relationship with the natural or artificial environment. Suh (1999) defines design as an essential activity that determines the generation of systems, i.e. that associates the users’ requirements with a system that can meet them with matching solutions. The issue of correlation between project and user is not new and has been constantly debated both in practice and in theory throughout the XX century. In this respect, we can identify three generations of approaches to user oriented design which, despite sharing the objective “of the well-being of humans while being environmentally-friendly”, differ in meanings and man-space relational strategies. Among all of these approaches, the flexible design, analyzed in the paper seems more appropriate to the creation of a smart user-centered territory (Cellucci and Di Sivo 2016).