The paper reflects possible “transition” strategies for the industrialised residential building stock considering its systemic nature and current technological availability, with particular reference to digital technologies. Screening of some research on housing in the context of ecological and digital transition is proposed, starting from a critical review of interventions over the past decades, which reveal a fragmented framework of punctual solutions that cannot be codified as organic and replicable strategies. This highlights the research world’s focus on broader holistic approaches that look at energy transition as closely related to the transition of the entire building organism and the inhabiting community.

The climate crisis and hydrogeological fragilities make it necessary to raise public awareness and empower local administrations on the issues of natural hazards and urban resilience. With the aim of triggering synergies between circular and biophilic city regeneration and emergency prevention, the public engagement project ‘Code4Risk’ uses co-design as an interdisciplinary and multi-actor practice embedded in the Third Mission objectives. The article presents the first phase of the project, a workshop developed in sessions of knowledge sharing and co-design through thematic tables that investigated the relationships between urban spaces and multi-hazard conditions, envisioning transformative scenarios aimed at disaster resilience.