Geodesign in Transformative Approaches and Collaborative Scenarios: Climate Changes and Co-created Futures for Venice

This paper explores the potential of Geodesign as a collaborative and participatory approach integrable with mapping and territorial planning tools. A contemporary interpretation distinguishes two ways of developing this technique. First, to connect Geodesign to new territorial languages, and second to allows the development of innovative practices of territorial governance, stimulating systemic transformations and shared modelling of urbanized space in dynamic and multi-climate risk contexts. As a social process oriented to public decision, Geodesign offers the possibility of evaluating project proposals, in steps adaptable to dynamic and interactive environmental information. In this context, multi-criteria methodologies respond to the need to understand the nature and intensity of vulnerability, not only in subtractive strategies but also through evaluating feasibility and social acceptability based on a design rebalancing between environments and natural contexts. As an example, the “Actions Table for Climate Transition in the Other Adriatic” (Iuav University of Venice within the Response research project interreg Italy-Croatia) provides a structured framework for reading and interpreting territorial vulnerability, integrating environmental and socio-economic data with assessment tools capable of guiding targeted forms of physical-functional redevelopment. Working on the “Geodesign- Actions Table” relationship, the research path tests the results of Response within a laboratory course entitled “Climate Changes and Co-Created Futures for Venice”. The integration of Geodesign and Actions Table strengthens the transformative effectiveness of adaptive planning processes. If Iuav’s Actions Table tends to strengthen sector planning, balancing strategic vision and local adaptation actions, Geodesign enhances the urban project through collaborative analytical models and scenario hypotheses.