Social, economic and environmental sustainability in planning community services
Resiliency and sustainability are not synonymous. Sustainability is a final (and constant) permanent objective, often based on a static vision: resiliency assumes instead a dynamic approach, looking at system transformation pro- cesses to drive its evolution and increase the chance of a sustainable final out- come. So, if the goal is sustainability, resiliency is one of the many ways we have today to obtain it.
Moreover, new effective models in the design phase drive towards shared processes, able to stimulate a bottom up and open source participation, and to involve public debate and consent development; thus, we must encourage propo- sitions, so widespread among citizens, that can drive an economy through a continuous dialogue among stakeholders, institutions, companies and civil society.Thus, we need to make the best use of available resources and skills through a building process and product innovation (economic sustainability) that ensures better and more effective/efficient services as well as positive effects for employment (social sustainability), moving from a linear economy to a circular economy (environmental sustainability).
This requires the adoption of increasingly flexible solutions, able to ensure through time the building quality and their fitting to the changing needs.
Within the disciplinary sector of Architectural Technology, this means to re-establish the conditions for a rational management of planning and design phases, by continuously monitoring the building process until a reliable as- sessment of its outcomes during the practice phase is performed, through Post Occupancy Evaluation procedures able to identify critical issues and dissemi- nate knowledge with reducing the failure risks.