Designing knowledge for recovery: between collaborative approaches and adaptability scenarios

An awareness of the relationships between environmental, social and economic capi-tal contributes to outlining new design strategies for the built environment, linked to the enlargement of the network of stakeholders traditionally involved in the decision-making process. The paper describes the knowledge management model promoted within the PRIN re-search "The defense of landscape between conservation and transformation. Eco-nomy and beauty for sustainable development" (call 2010-2012). Within a 36-month experimentation, the research identifies resilience thinking as the basis for a design approach that, by combining the dynamic and adaptive dimensions of socio-urban systems with the need to strengthen and innovate their identity values, en-courages the construction of a shared settlement demand.