Flexibility in the era of networks and sustainability.
There are two interesting different interpretations of the term flexibility: flexibility as openness, that is, able to allow a variety of uses; and flexibility as evolutionary potential, that is, able to change in time in relation to context alterations. Two signs that seem to me to be very useful to face the double transition with which we have to confront nowadays: the underway one, toward the society of networks and knowledge and the necessary one, which has still a long way to go, towards sustainability.
Referring to design, openness and evolutionary potential are, in my opinion, interesting topics at all levels: from the one that concerns the simplest material products to the one related with the most complex socio-technical systems. In the following notes I will focus, specifically, on the socio-technical systems, that is, the conjunction of products and services on which our life is based on…