Carlo Battisti

La natura salverà la nostra società. La società biofilica.

Imparare dagli altri, imparare dalla natura. Il primo Biophilia Camp. La biofilia è stata al centro della prima edizione del Biophilia Camp organizzato da Living Future Europe, un’immersione nella natura dell’Alto Adige in Alta Val di Non, lo scorso autunno, per apprendere e applicare i principi della progettazione biofilica, in un’esperienza che ha unito biologia e agile management,…

The roadmap is you

We are at the end of a year extremely complicated, we know it. Energy crisis, economic crisis, an ongoing pandemic, an environmental emergency that we are unable to deal with seriously, and of course the infamous Russian invasion of Ukraine. All our cornerstones are now shaky: peace, welfare, health, democracy, progress. We have done nothing this year but accumulate uncertainties and we are…

To go or not to go? The question mark on the climate conference.

(And why – spoiler – in the end it is better to participate) The new COP27 that began yesterday and until November 18 in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt does not start with great optimism. The disappointing results of COP26 in Glasgow, the global energy crisis triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with many countries in scattered order looking for fossil energy sources (in a global environmental…

Changing the built environment paradigm. Now.

When we founded Living Future Europe almost three years ago, we declared since from our statute what was our mission – to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or disadvantage of anyone, catalysing the transformation toward communities that are socially just, culturally rich, and ecologically…

Tsundoku

The beauty of certain expressions in the Japanese language is that they positively transform some concepts that have a negative meaning for Western culture. For example, “kintsugi,” the Japanese practice of highlighting and embellishing fractures and increasing the value of a broken object. This technique involves repairing the object (for example, a broken vase in shards) using a precious metal…

Sale e ricci di mare

[the English version follows] Sono affascinato dalle isole, dal concetto stesso di isola, come entità, territorio, ove possibile, autosufficiente. Mi capita spesso di pensare che l’isola possa davvero rappresentare su piccola scala la nostra intera biosfera, il paradigma di come la sostenibilità potrebbe essere garantita a livello planetario. L’isola come una sorta di sistema chiuso o per lo…

Ho usato queste immagini della Marmolada (quella sopra è di Franco Secchieri, 2019) all’inizio delle mie presentazioni fino a tre anni fa. Poi ho smesso, mi sembrava che la gente si annoiasse o forse non ci faceva caso più di tanto. Così sostituivo l’inizio con qualcosa del tipo “non c’è bisogno che vi mostri le solite immagini catastrofiche, tanto sapete già, passiamo oltre, a parlare di…

Change is about communicating it.

Just back from Klimahouse, the most important green building exhibition and congress in Italy (the eighteenth edition) for the first time in person after 2020, with a mixture of uncertainty and amazement about being able to see each other, meet, and design together again. We left the screens, the webinars, the calls. It is really possible now, I mean, to restart more or less as before, with…

RESET, to monitor the indoor air.

“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it”, paraphrasing Lord Kelvin. This is valid for indoor air too. The RESET Standard is the world’s first sensor-based and performance-driven data standard and certification program for the built environment. The RESET Standard creates a structure for data quality, continuous monitoring, and benchmarking. The standard harnesses the power of technology…

Si fa presto a dire Zero.

[the English abstract follows] Zero emissions, zero carbon, zero energy, net zero, net positive, nearly zero energy buildings, carbon neutral, zero impact, carbon-free, carbon negative, carbon off setting, carbon removal, il primo edificio, il primo progetto, il primo intervento di rigenerazione urbana a zero emissioni, il primo … – aggiungete a piacere. Insomma, si fa presto a dire zero. La…

Because indoor air quality matters

Humans breathe more than 15,000 litres (15 m3) of air every single day, consuming approximately four times more air than food and liquid together[1]. Health effects associated with exposure to indoor air pollutants can be short- and long-term and can range in severity and in the most recent global burden of disease study, household air pollution was rated as the third most important cause of ill…

E’ ora di cambiare aria (nelle scuole)

The time for choices

I suppose many have read that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published their Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis and that very few have actually read it (it’s almost 4,000 pages) or perhaps have read the 42-page summary. For those who haven’t, here are two well done posts that summarize its main points, see Stacy Smedley on ‘my…

RESTORY. Managing a COST Action as a Project (2021). Another #CostRestore outcome is out, enjoy :-)

Managing a COST Action as a Project (2021) Co-edited with Martin Brown, RESTORY. Managing a COST Action as a Project, tells the story of how we managed this 4-years endeavour, working together with 160+ brilliant researchers and practitioners to advance the progress towards a regenerative sustainability scenario in the built environment. The book is available for download and reading here.…

Restore is over. Long live Restore.

After six years from the beginning of this journey (the first RESTORE idea dates back to April 2015), and four years and a half from COST RESTORE proposal approval, the #CostRestore Action has come to its end, last April 30th, 2021. I would express my sincere thanks and gratitude to all the RESTORE members, stakeholders and all those who supported our Action, sharing the principles that guided…

From last Restore Ready event to LF21 start, a Tuesday like no others within the framework of Earth Day celebration. Save your spot at your laptop for a regenerative webinar binge watching tomorrow Tuesday, April 21st 2021, from 2 PM to 0:30 AM (UTC+1) featuring:• RESTORE Ready Sabden (UK) (2-9 PM, UTC+1) free registration here [places are limited]• 1st day of Living Future 21 (4:40 PM – 0:30…

È successo di nuovo, pochi giorni fa. Stavo parlando di fronte a qualche centinaio di “facade-geeks” – superesperti di facciate e involucro dell’edificio, inclusa una buona dozzina di professori di tecnologia, materiali, metallo, vetro di università tedesche e olandesi. Tra dettagli di snodi di sistemi industrializzati di facciate e vetrate digitali che si curvano e trasmettono immagini, nelle…