Description and objectives

Italy is a country highly exposed to risks arising from geological, seismic, volcanic, geomorphological, hydrological, hydraulic, and meteorological events, as well as from pollution and environmental degradation.
This complex framework requires multi-risk and multi-scale approaches.

Water cities, river territories, delta regions, and coastal areas represent fragile and vulnerable environments where different stakeholders are called upon to identify concrete solutions aimed at mitigating climate change and developing adaptive strategies.

MIRACLE aims to contribute to the definition of inclusive processes for the collection and systematization of information derived from people’s perceptions, in order to build a cognitive framework that can support the development of territorial governance policies.

Three urban laboratories (Bagnoli, Verona, Rimini) will be established with the involvement of citizens and stakeholders, serving as spaces to test, validate, and replicate adaptation measures and socio-economic strategies at the territorial level through participatory processes and methodologies.

The goal is the co-creation and co-design of adaptive scenarios and interventions aimed at strengthening urban metabolism and community resilience under conditions of exposure to multiple risks.

The project also seeks to experiment with new information-gathering technologies to support the participatory definition of territorial vulnerabilities. The resulting cognitive framework will integrate both perceptual data from city users and stakeholders, and the physical-technical information produced by the Iuav University of Venice and the Planning & Climate Change Lab.

The project’s results will contribute to improving the entire disaster risk management cycle through an analysis of interrelations among different types of risks, offering new adaptive methodologies for understanding, reconceptualizing, and developing effective mitigation and adaptation strategies.