Kaleidoscopic ecologies. New scenarios, from ecological utopia to probiotic architecture.

Pandemic, climate change, population growth and ecology are today issues of global interest that require, on the one hand, immediate action, and on the other, long-medium term policies, strategies and projects that foreshadow a gradual and continuous change as in the case of the ecological transition. The ecological transition is a multiple challenge that must be faced on different levels: technological, political, economic, cultural and which needs to respond to both global and pointly emergencies. More than objectives it is in fact necessary to define methods that are constantly updated and adaptive projects. The paper intends to propose a series of experiments and projects that, between past and present, are committed to giving innovative visions to the ecological transition, in its various forms such as: Richard Weller's Ecological Utopias, Philippe Rham's Sensory Microclimatic Habitat and Neri Oxman's Probiotic Architecture. The different experiences highlight an essential need to respond to the ecological transition through interdisciplinary skills. Thus, while the role of archistars fades a new figure is affirmed: the "ecological maker", a hybrid professional capable of including issues related to ecology in his field and capable of proposing a new culture of design that innovates and protect our planet.