The Humanification of the Urban Community

Abstract

This article explores a cognitive, heuristic and perceptive approach to human behaviour that is to call humanification to inspire urban planners and sustainable transition managers to focus on communities in anticipation of a new culture. This perspective offers the opportunity to understand urban sustainable communities as a full sustainable experience. The case of Centocelle (Rome) Italian district is reported here as an example concerned the transformation of the local community into a self-community organization in which the work of facilitation and mediation was focused to raise a direct representation of local capacities. Humanification as an approach contributed to sustainable cognitive behaviors of a new cultural process that establishes new relationships between citizens and their home. Keywords Sustainability Culture, Human Becoming, Biosemiotic, Epistemology, Pre-Adaptation