Technologies for urban liminal systems between legacies and disciplinary evolution

As we move toward a post-Fordist urban model, our attention has turned again to urban non-built-up areas. Here, urban liminals make up the new boundaries at which complex, unforeseeable and transitory relations between technologic and biospheric systems mix. Starting from the scientific legacy of the technological culture of design, this contribution highlights two fundamental cognitive aspects for research on urban liminals. The first is referred to the conceptual and methodological aspects necessary to reconstruct essential patterns for an evolutive, adaptive and vital future for urban life. The second are related to the qualitative, modelling and typological aspects to determine innovative outcomes both in designing and the training of future designers.