Ex+per. Experimentation of Architectural Co-Design Strategies in Fragile Contexts

Architectural co-design is a crucial field of research today, especially in fragile and at-risk contexts, where rapid transformations and important challenges affect the social and physical framework. This contribution aims to investigate co-design strategies and participatory processes for architecture looking at their implication in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), focusing on the co-creative and educational potential of their experimentation to trigger or catalyze transformative processes in these fragile contexts. Adopting community-based approaches, it is possible to trigger bottom-up processes projecting any kind of intervention in an ex-ante temporality towards risk and introducing the theme of disaster risk mitigation (DRM): this allows the architect to build with users an essential shared knowledge, in order to reach anti-fragility conditions of territories and inhabitants, making resilience and preparedness two founding project themes.