Between the historical centre, blocked by the continuous reference to the past and the periphery of the city, exploded through its generic and open character, the rest of the city assumes the role of a laboratory of the continuously changing cityscape . The propositions sketching and treating of this city in-between are always defined by the, in situ, coexistence of contradictions and dichotomies. Past and future, physical and digital, virtual and actual, renovation and totally new, local and global. morphing rather than collage ( or the reference to a Forme ) describe this territory of continuously transform ed and instable identities.

A changing and transforming digital reality operates in this contradictory urban tissue, by a ceaseless virtualization of the existing, by the continuous formation of urban hybrids .

Through them, locality is redefined, or calls for a critical redefinition, assumes a new role, does not dissolve herself in global operational networks.