ENHANCING STRUCTURES OF COEXISTENCES. URBAN FRINGES, LEFTOVERS AND THE CLIMATE FRAGILITIES

Nature has been increasingly depleted in urban areas, creating many neglected leftovers, especially in urban fringes. Nevertheless, leftovers could represent a scattered space of coexistence, where the proximity between mineral and natural spaces creates unexpressed design potentialities. The contribution envisions the possibility of working with this coexistence condition, designing adaptive structures to counteract the climate crisis. With this perspective, leftovers could represent an opportunity where today’s unstable coexistence could be transformed to enhance urban resilience.