Re_construected Intention

This contribution is the introductory text to the volume edited by the author '' The Laboratory__City: sustainable recycling and reclaim ", in the series of dissemination of scientific products of the academic research PRIN" Recycle Italy ". The theme of the laboratory city, perused by the research Recycle Italy provides a major opportunity to help reconstrue the intentions that link some views and contributions deriving from the transdisciplinarity of the most relevant theories and experiences regarding the topics of the transformation of the city, their present and their capacity of facing the environmental and social challenges from the standpoint of the preservation of the future through the activation of new life cycles. A condition characterized on one hand by downturns and on the other hand by the radicalism of innovation for a future whose utopia, at the same time boundless and too much constrained, dares represent and resemiotize the contemporary reality in spite of many oppositive trends. Technology, therefore, is called to sustainably execute and manage the innovation of its devices thanks to ‘recycling and reclaim’ processes in complex and multiple scenarios as well as in a dimension of humanity measurable on the scale of any social time duration beyond the short, medium, and long term frames of sustainability. The five questions corresponding to the five paradigms that can be postulated, are the theoretical devices satisfying the above-mentioned needs by designing various contemporary scenarios that despite being mere challenges at first, must play a key role as factors of competitiveness sparkling all kinds of clever innovation.