Circular and Collaborative: two terms of the project culture in the era of industry 4.0

Circular and Collaborative are recurrent terms in the culture of contemporary design, which relate to the new role played by industry and production in the revolution brought about by digital culture. Regarding circular, this term is becoming a paradigm of project practices that consider not only environmental limits and resource scarcity, but also and above all new models of social innovation and sharing. As for collaborative, this term refers to the logic of open innovation and, in this sense, takes up the challenge presented by Industry 4.0, which transforms the factory and strongly conditions the dialectic established between technology and architecture, between creation and practice, between manual skills and trade.