Editorial Human-center and place-based interconnections VITRUVIO

Our actions, our behavior, our projects, wherever we live and work, have consequences for the entire planet. Human actions and the quality of place transformations, including the complex interrelationships between social, environmental and economic systems, are interconnected on a local and planetary scale. This is a now widespread awareness due to the catastrophic consequences of climate change and the contamination of natural environments by pollutants and waste everywhere in the world. While we are all called to a new sense of responsibility, we are increasingly at risk of being swept along by the wave of irresponsibility fueled not only by the blind human self-centered but also by the current rampant bulimia of material things and digitized information. Technological innovations have always marked the destiny of mankind. Now it seems they have brought it to an end. Perhaps we have already entered the post-human era, as many claim, and the artificial intelligence will solve for us the wicked problems of complexity-conscious contemporary times. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions, right or wrong, to wicked problems. We can only choose between the best or worst-case scenario. In the meantime, we continue to hide our responsibilities behind the insidiousness of the unpredictable when the chosen solution proves to be the worst possible one. Where has the powerful beauty of the one right solution gone? How can we stop the supremacy of digital tools over human intelligence?