Theoretical questions
This WG studies technological advancements that can contribute to sustainability through creative
innovation technologies.
The WG studies creative solutions for counteracting the heterogeneity of technology and its
domination of the market towards a multiplicity of technologies. This pluralism can be obtained from
drawing solutions in urban design and architecture developed in non-Western societies—what could
be called 'slow technologies.'
The WG aims also to explore social practices and philosophies that are connected to these
technologies and to defend their interconnectedness for a better implementation. Practices situated
between visual art, craftsmanship, collaborative and circular design approaches, and technological
innovation on the level of materials, construction, and urban landscape—with the objective of more
circular and green buildings and cities—fall in the scope of this WG that aims to explore them from a
transversal, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal perspective and as bottom-up solutions.
Finally, this WG maps the relevance of these practices for a societal transition towards more
sustainable and circular thinking.