The sustainable project. Requirements and design strategies

Although sustainability has become a key concept in many fields in recent years, its definition is possible for various misunderstandings that have fuelled ‘specialisms’ on issues of ecology and the environment. The emergence of a systemic vision of sustainability and an approach anthropocentric/global that place the psycho-physical-social well-being of the user and the ecological-environmental well-being of the planet at the centre of the transformation processes, has led to a convergence between Sustainable Design and Healthy Design. The paper, therefore, wants to argue that sustainable design can be defined as appropriate participation (salutogenic) in the process of social, ecological, and environmental development of a particular place. Starting from these considerations, the paper identifies tactical macro-requirements at the methodological/theoretical level as drivers/vectors of sustainability and the tactical/operational level families of project actions.