Implementing Coevolution in Design Methodology for the Conservation and Reuse of Architectural Heritage

In several scientific fields, the Coevolution concept proved to be inspiring for innovative attitudes. The idea of Coevolution is a relatively recent development of Darwinian evolution and adaptation models, based on the detection of species, whose evolution processes show some interdependencies with each other, allowing to describe evolutionary changes as based on a reciprocal interdependence. The example of plants and butterflies is the most popular, but interdependencies may be much more complex. Besides the field of Biology and Natural History, studies on Coevolution have been carried out in many other contexts, such as History and Archaeology, Humanities, Management, Sociology, Applied Economics, Organization Science, and even Aesthetics.