Re-Cool Trento: Designing blue and green flows for a hot city

The challenges facing communities and cities today are climate change, the vulnerability of territories, the availability of limited resources (primary, material, territorial, economic), the loss of the collective sense of community, cultural degrowth, inequality and social inclusion. In response to these challenges, many planners, designers and planners are rethinking cities, through new paradigms and models guided by strategies of adaptation to change. Today we often find ourselves having to repair the many mistakes made sometimes unconsciously and sometimes driven by models and conditions that are no longer valid. In this context, it is even more urgent to stop and ask ourselves who the future belongs to, what is the temporal dimension of the future and the respective effects in designing it. The contamination of disciplinary boundaries between landscape, architecture, urbanism, ecology, and futures studies (a recent branch of social sciences) has forced to expand and redefine the practice of designers and their field of operations. Following this, the contribution will briefly focus on the expansion in approaches and definitions of relevant themes such as uncertainties, resilience, urban adaptation, blue and green infrastructure, climate change that have undergone during the last decade and the consequent emergence of new design methodologies. It will do so through sharing knowledge, data, perspectives, and design experiences among the fields of urban, landscape and ecological design, as well as environmental and social studies.