Innovation Towards Empathy in Architecture and Design

This volume is a special issue with the aim to disseminate knowledge on research studies, projects, processes and methodologies carried out by academics, researchers and expert professionals on issues involving various scales: from the object to the building, to the city, to the landscape, to the processes. The authors' contributions address contemporary issues identifying a new empathetic approach to architecture and design, providing insights on issues including: systemic-relational design, biocomposites, innovative lighting systems, challenges for addressing global warming and pollution, trends of 3D printing for architecture, innovation for medical devices. All the themes are described from an ecological-environmental, aesthetic-functional and economic-social point of view.