La cura e la manutenzione per la sostenibilità dell’ambiente costruito

The challenge of development sustainability characterizing contemporary society asks to re-think, in all sectors, the forms of planning, programming and projecting in cultural scientific and operational terms, in order to obtain politics, tools, approaches and technologies which are able to allow for anthropic systems management and transformation guaranteeing the present exigencies fulfillment without compromising such a chance in the future. Such a condition requires a substantial re-thinking of the development philosophy, and in particular of the traditional public investments supporting economy: while in the industrialization phase both the private and the public investments were implemented without considering the possible effects in terms of territorial and social balance, in the new post-industrial reality it is fundamental to change this kind of approach. As suggested by the philosopher Hans Jones, we should carry out a completely new action of modifying and managing the environment as a process based on the adoption of a care and responsibility attitude. The theme is particularly critical for those subjects involved in the technology process. The technological culture, from a tool related to transformation activities, has to evolve into a guide in those processes aiming at objectives which overcome the current quantitative and materialistic conception of contemporary society, towards new balances within the global system. The attention paid to the themes of curing and maintaining represents one of the most significant acquisitions in post-industrial contemporary culture, more and more oriented towards sustainability objectives. The maintenance theme can be considered as a real strategy for the built environment sustainability; indeed, it is the primary tool for knowing and governing the complex and heterogeneous contemporary reality, through which we can achieve the system reliability as well as the sustainability regulating life dimension. This contribution intend to reflect within the technological culture of maintenance project, whose disciplinary discussion is today based on the application modes of such discipline at a building and an urban scale as well.