Prospettive fenomenologiche: verso una città post-smart = Phenomenological perspectives: toward a post-smart city

Abstract

The essay, grounded in phenomenology, critiques the technocratic paradigm of the smart city, whose algorithmic logic overrides lived experience and proves unsustainable on multiple levels. The Urbanocene is reinterpreted not just as a contrast to the Anthropocene, but as an onto-epistemic condition shaped by hyper-rational urbanization and non-porous architecture. Through Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, the essay recovers the meaning of dwelling and Boden-the embodied ground of spatial experience-contrasting the smart city with Benjamin's idea of a porous, hybrid urban space. Drawing on Tim Ingold, it envisions a post-smart city marked by relational, open-ended habitability. Central to this vision is urban rewilding, promoting city-nature hybridity and new modes of cohabitation, exemplified in the urban design work of Bernardo Secchi.