Processi urbani e territoriali: tra benessere ambientale e design [Urban and Territorial Processes between Environmental Well-being and Design]

The project of urban and territorial spaces has the obligation to respond to quantitative needs, such as, for example, complying with rules and regulations. However, this is not enough in order to have a sure certainty that a quality project has been delivered to the community. To find and satisfy qualitative requirements is essential; which means, in other words, understand what are the needs of people in that specific social and environmental context. A project implemented in the public sphere must necessarily try to produce environmental well-being; a project that aims at the synergistic satisfaction between quantitative characteristics and qualitative needs. The paper aims to investigate what are the participatory processes and how they are implemented, starting from the real needs of people and focusing more on activities rather than characteristics for find qualitative characteristics. Changing perspective, we can observe that a public space can enable or not certain people to carry out a specific activity. In this methodological process we are helped by the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health): a tool – used mainly in the medical and rehabilitation sector – which seeks to deepen the comprehension and the investigation of health as an interaction between individual and context. The paper seeks to examine in depth the link between people and spaces.