Innovation from the Practice: a Perspectival Fragment.

The article tries to define the range of possibilities for innovation in architectural design. Through a concrete example of design practice conducted in the real world, a method to produce maps aimed at identifying effective design strategies is proposed. Mapping strategies is possible by betting on the instability of the project, which can be divided into two fields. The first is meant as process instability, due to the continuing possibility that the result of the project must be modified and adapted to the conditions of negotiation and decision during its process. The second is meant as product instability, linked to the limited duration in time of the effects of a project, after it has been completed. Considering that the process instability corresponds to a mobility of the final objective, which depends both on external and internal conditions of the process, the case studied allows us to enter the folds of a segment of the design evolution process, to bring out the relationships of concatenation that link between the adjustments undergone by the drawings, to shape the chains of deviations and to observe how the project progressively consolidates.