Creative Diversity for Our Common Futures. La diversità creativa per città e territori resilienti

The pandemic has dramatically demonstrated that public health results from a complex system of factors (and their synergies) connecting the quality and functionality of the environment, social and economic organization, and behaviors of everyday life. The multiple phenomena of crisis, including the worsening of the effects of climate change remind us that we are in a socio-ecological system resulting from the dynamic and complex interactions between man and nature. During the pandemic, the REsilienceLAB network started a process of profound debate among the association members, experts, and third-sector actors, first of all, sharing questions and activating new connections between consolidated lines of research and action on territorial and urban resilience. The path (re)starts from the concept of resilience to highlight the properties that, from different points of view, contribute to the resilience of complex systems. Creative Diversity emerges as a crucial and shared resilience property from different approaches. The path of Creative Diversity connects different concepts and approaches to transfer the theoretical stimuli in terms of strategies to face the key challenges characterizing the territories by acting on the city project in their public component. The Creative Diversity path is part of the project "[Dis] Seminare Resilienza” developed by REsilienceLAB and supported by the Banca del Monte di Lombardia Foundation. The paper introduces the framework of the developed path of Creative Diversity, highlighting the inputs that connect urban-territorial resilience with the health of cities and communities.