How does the design reactivates metabolic relationships in adaptative contexts?

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Miriam García (ES) – PhD architect, landscape architect & urban designer, LANDLAB, Barcelona, www.landlab.es

Today it is believed that urban metabolism provides new knowledge for more sustainable management of resources in cities and their neighbourhoods. The understanding of cities as complex adaptive systems, specifically as socio-ecological systems, promotes the integration of the complex structure of relationships and feedbacks between the components of the ecosystem and socio-economic entities. Europan 17 teams have shown that through the understanding of the existing urban context and the recognition of its environmental, social and territorial values, it is possible to use design to activate forgotten, even unexpected, metabolic relationships..

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