Climate change, environmental decay, widespread pollution, rapid consumption of resources, radical modification of ecosystems are among the emerging issues for the contemporary project. The modern design principles, based on the concepts of separation and development, now appear to be ineffective. The territorial dimension of the settlements, which incorporate and are incorporated by nature, requires the transformation of the point of view on the phenomena, establishing connections between apparently irreconcilable elements through a creative re-mixing that crosses the scale and the geographies of the project. In order that the figures of artifice can weave new resilient relationships with nature, able to producing ecologies rather than destroying them, the project is called to identify resources within the figures themselves, re-conceptualizing the accumulated artificial residues and existing stagnant structures as an instrument of ecological evolution, a resource to be exploited and enhanced. Taking care of what is placed “between things”, this approach forces us to renounce to a project as a pre-determined construction, in exchange for an “eco-effective” system able to respond to living and changing conditions.
