La innovación: aprendiendo del pasado

Abstract

The text tackles the necessity of reviewing areas of interest found in our past experiences, when approaching innovation. Areas such as urbanism, architecture, or the search for a balanced urban landscape, and for identity, are issues of particular interest in our contemporary context. After the failures of most of the proposals in those áreas, suffered all along the xx century in the name of innovation, the proposals that do not work have to be clearly rejected, while those that have proved to work have to be taken into consideration. Our present conditions of climate change and other situations of inminent emergency do require a switch in what is commonly taken for innovation. The text also deals with coding, and the possibility of creating better ands more beautiful urban districts.