The role of technology in participative processes

Smart city is more and more, in the common feeling, the crossroad oftechnologies, but first and foremost, the place where humans, contexts and technologiesmeet and must interact. Technological systems thanks to the deep humaninteraction acquire an uncertain behaviour that can be hardly modelled and controlled.The resulting complexity, cannot be easily handled with the tools that areavailable to separate scientific fields. The interdisciplinarity that comes from theimplementation of technologies and the dialogue between these and the territoriesrequires new tools for classification and design. New urban design tools are neededallowing to identify in a standardized way adequate support measures for urbanfunctions deployment (energy, mobility, water and waste management).