Inert Adaptability and Potential Adaptability as Strategies in the Design of Living Spaces

DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE18.86

Authors: Cristiana Cellucci and Michele Di Sivo

Abstract:

The paper analyzes the relationship between uncertainty and design and identifies two principal design strategies that weigh uncertainty in its two fundamental design moments, that is, as conception and service life: strategies of "inert adaptability" and "potential adaptability".

Keywords: uncertainty; problem-solving; inert adaptability; indeterminateness; potential adaptability; flexibility