Navigating Twin Transition: Fostering Equitable and Anti-fragile Metropolitan Landscapes Enriching Digital Communities

The upcoming decades will be marked by the transformative dual green and digital transition fundamentally reshaping societies. Ensuring these transitions are equitable requires acknowledging disparities and anticipating socio-economic implications. This chapter underscores the importance of implementing strategies that embrace anti-fragility and de-risking (Taleb in Antifragile: things that gain from disorder. Global Penguin Random House, 2014). It advocates for a shift towards relational, pluriversal (Kothari et al. in Pluriverso. Dizionario del post-sviluppo. Orthotes, Napoli, 2021) modes of inhabiting urban spaces, preparing the context contents for employing digital tools to safeguard natural heritage, preserve local identity, and enhance community well-being (JRC in Understanding and acting on future risks and opportunities, Portfolio 26, 2023). This chapter explores the necessity of alternative dwelling modes that integrate communal existence, regenerative knowledge, and digital tools into metropolitan landscapes by challenging traditional design principles and promoting interconnectedness: a new emerging, nurturing diverse, and resilient ways of living. Our research underscores also the importance of metropolitan cultural heritage (Heritopolis Initiative) as a foundation for digital communities sustainable habitats. We translate these resources into actionable data and methodologies that drive policies that uphold heritage while advancing Twin Transition. A decentralised yet coordinated metropolitan framework is a system in which decision-making and authority are distributed across various entities or levels within a metropolitan area. However, a mechanism is still in place to ensure cooperation and alignment of goals among these entities. It implies a balance between local autonomy and collective coordination to efficiently manage urban development and services in a large city or metropolitan region.