Nature-based design methods and practices for bathing activities sustainability

The contribution concerns intervention models and practices related to the design for the sustainability of the marine-coastal environment and the in-it hosted human activities. In particular, starting from the results of specific researches, the text presents experiences aimed at defining, around the "project for bathing", a new possible dialogue between habitats and cultural, economic and social needs. In this scenario, the culture of design can propose new goods and services which, acting on different scales, are capable of updating and integrating principles of coexistence and "sharing" between nature, territories, people and artefacts. The result is a design for the beach that interprets, in such a peculiar and problematic context, the theme of sustainability in a conscious and transdisciplinary way. It is introduced a "broad" and "plural" sustainability, capable of collaborating with nature respecting it, so rethinking new balances between ecological priorities and evolutions of behaviors and user needs.