HE.RE.
a kit for temporary reactivation of urban vacancies
Nowadays new technologies are increasingly leading the ways we physically interact and get emotionally involved in the real world. This digital revolution has come along with an increasing number of leftovers: jobs and habits are the two most evident spheres of this shifting, but the effect on the space we inhabit is worthy of concern too. Cities have been drifting away from their previous status for almost two decades due to both the economic crisis and the digital technology revolution; this process outputs a huge quantity of vacant lots and buildings, waiting to be reactivated. What if we foster the coexistence between new technologies and the built heritage, aiming to create a unique entity able to reactivate vacancies? The knowledge we are able to both gather and manage and the ability to generate performing hubs of public space experience are the leading drivers for a temporary,
Alberto Benetti Mosè Ricci Gabriel Mark Kuper Marcella del Signore Marco Angheben Trento, 2016|01|31
sustainable and open-source solution to the topic of vacancies. The research based itself on a specific process that starts from a sensing phase - the process of mapping vacancies - and ends with a set of strategies that shapes HE.RE., an architectural and digital entity that achieve reactivation by gathering citizen’s feedback and by creating public space. The research in its first phase highlights the effectiveness of data-driven analysis of the urban built environment, and gives a solid proof of how much we would be able today to expand our knowledge about any urban dynamics. The acting programs open up many challenges which offer so far nothing but visions about their success since they are strongly dependent on citizens’ will to make a resolute turn toward a new way of managing and experiencing the urban space.