About Research
This WG studies technological advancement that can contribute to sustainability through
creative innovation-technologies.
The WG studies creative solutions of counteracting the heterogeneity of technology and its
domination on 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 ,
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 a
more sustainable and circular thinking.
