Regeneration and resilience: strategies to close the loop for the future of the built environment

Considering the issue of resilience in the definition of regeneration and maintenance strategies for the built environment requires rethinking the boundaries and properties that characterize the traditional fields of investigation and intervention related to settlement systems. At the same time there is the need to identify innovative paradigms to manage the relations between artefacts, contexts, events - predictable and non-predictable - that can modify the expected functionality in a progressive or disruptive way, with the aim of ensuring the identity of the settlement systems and enhancing their resilience. In the paper, the resilience approach is developed according to two complementary perspectives: - on the one hand, the framing of cultural synergies between the concepts of fragility, vulnerability, robustness, reliability and adaptability and the issues of maintenance and regeneration, focusing on the specificities of the information management process; - on the other hand, the identification of projects and tools for the development and implementation of pilot experiments developed in the territories.