The potential Roles of Design and Designers within a Time-based approach. Multiple temporalities: projects, processes, and communities at SS. Trinità delle Monache in Naples

Considering the urgency of updating design disciplines in response to current time of transition, this paper proposes a critical analysis based on extensive research involving the former Convent of the SS. Trinità delle Monache in Naples. Multiple research contexts have been aimed at the recovery, valorization, and opening of the former convent to the city. Focusing on this case study, the contribution identifies possible roles for design and the designer within a time-based approach. Recognizing the complexity and coexistence of multiple temporalities, one can broaden the spectrum of the project's actions. In this sense, the contribution proposes six connotations of the project through an examination of as many project experiences, each corresponding to different purposes, communities, scales, and, above all, temporalities. It is believed that the case study presented here provides a possible example of a minor and processual project developed within a time-based approach, where the designer-researcher plays the role of the choral architect. Within this theoretical framework, the recognition of multiple and interrelated temporalities as indispensable tools for contemporary design is shown to be urgent.