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The contribution follows the participation in the TECHNOLOGY FOR ALL 2022 event held in Rome from 21 to 23 November 2022. At the end of the first day of the workshop, in the session "Active testimonials in the Baja presentation room", Antonino Saggio and Gaetano De Francesco spoke at the Scalo de Pinedo, to outline some strategies for Rome based on the enhancement of the Tiber, understood as a large ecological infrastructure in the built city, in a design capable of injecting new social dynamics, technological and environmental innovations and the economic forces necessary for the city.Rome in fact it is one of the very few capital cities in the world that has not yet invested in its great resource of the River that crosses it, treating it only as a source of criticality rather than a great opportunity for its future.

With a term now entered into common language, the historical period we are experiencing is defined as "Anthropocene", to underline the serious responsibility of human activities for the global impacts produced and for the quality of life on our planet. At the same time, we are in an era of transition, characterized by a necessary transformation of society, which, starting from the current economic model, based on the logic of consumption of resources, production of waste and pollution and energy dependence from fossil fuels, we are moving towards a new, more sustainable future characterized by the search for solutions to multiple environmental criticalities and strategies for adapting to their now irreversible effects. Numerous examples of responsible citizenship and bottom up initiatives, such as student living labs, demonstrate the importance of active participation, a more aware knowledge of sustainability issues that lead to the adoption of effective initiatives on a local scale for the health of our cities.

Over the last few decades, the globalization phenomenon has determined the exponential development - from an economic, cultural and political standpoint - of traffic flows, the number of means and infrastructures involved in communication and exchange. At the same time, these represent one of the most complicated environmental issues of contemporary times, but perhaps also one of the most outstanding opportunities for setting up processes aimed at upgrading the territory and its constructions, towards environmental regeneration and social reorganization. These, in turn, would produce and spread (as in some already established examples of infrastructure upgrading) innovative and more sustainable forms of urban lifestyles. The present contribution aims at illustrating the former, beginning with research and experiments involving the development of eco-friendly meta-design models for the correct employment of “green technologies” in: meta-project research for small mobility facilities; expansion and redevelopment works for the Stazione Termini; experiments in design for some energy-efficient underground metro stops in Rome.

Il fenomeno della globalizzazione da un punto di vista economico, culturale e politico ha determinato negli ultimi decenni, tra gli aspetti che lo caratterizzano, lo sviluppo esponenziale dei flussi di traffico e del numero dei mezzi e delle infrastrutture di comunicazione e di scambio, che rappresentano al contempo una delle più problematiche questioni ambientali della contemporaneità ma anche forse la più importante opportunità di innestare processi di riqualificazione del territorio e del costruito, di rigenerazione ambientale e di riorganizzazione sociale capaci a loro volta di produrre e irradiare (come in alcuni esempi di riqualificazione infrastrutturale già realizzati) forme innovative e più sostenibili di vita urbana. Il contributo muove dallo sviluppo di una serie di ricerche e sperimentazioni in diversi ambiti infrastrutturali, commissionate da enti pubblici che operano nel settore e in particolare illustra tre ricerche progettuali: la messa a punto di modelli meta progettuali ambientalmente sostenibili per il corretto impiego di "green technologies" nelle piccole stazioni ferroviarie; l'ampliamento e riqualificazione di Roma Termini; la sperimentazione progettuale di alcune fermate di metropolitana a basso consumo energetico nella Capitale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]