Circular transition: Scenarios for the future of design|Transizione circolare: Scenari per il futuro del progetto

The Cir-cular Transition and Design is an emerging theme in the field of technical policy and international and national research, which is treated ac-cording to articulated guidelines and forms of scientific debate. Correlating the concepts of circular transition and design is part of a choice of field that is now based on continuity and develop-ment of the elaboration of themes that have been clearly announced since the 1970s. From that period a path of sensitivity and knowledge was born, which can be started with “the limits of development” (Meadows et al., 1972), with “the circle to be closed” (Commoner, 1972) and with the need to evolve “beyond growth” (Daly, 1996), until we consciously tend towards cli-max-type conditions, characterized by the minimization of energy and matter flows in the metabolism of ecosystems (Rifkin, 1983). Within this scenario, the relationship between ecology and society must also take into account the relationship between the bio-economy and the or-ganization of the territory, landscape and environment, in the same way as the interdependencies between the an-thropic system and the natural system.