Sustainable everyday life: enabling platforms and empowered places
• How do you live in a sustainable city? How do you prepare food? How do you look after things and the house? How do you work? How do you study? How do you move around? How do you use energy and how do you produce it? How much greenery is there and how is it looked after? •• We can suppose that there may be different and somewhat fluid answers to these questions in the picture of a sustainable city we are drawing: (almost) anything can be done (almost) anywhere and in completely different ways. On the other hand, this fluid everyday life requires a new generation of services, which minimise the consumption of environmental resources and promote new forms of socialisation, if it is not to be unsustainable on a social and environmental plane. This leads to the proposal for a network of multi-service centres able to respond sustainably to the demands of contemporary society. The proposal has an emblematic value in that it makes the suggested scenario more visible, yet it could also indicate a concrete direction for the future: multi-service centres as a new typology of everyday artifacts.
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