Filippo Angelucci ^* Donatella Radogna

• University of Studies G. d'Annunzio Chieti and Pescara, Chieti, Italy

In performance-based approaches and quality assessment protocols used both in the technological design of architecture and the environmental design of the built habitat, the concept of psycho-physical well-being is usually defined in purely quantitative human-techno-centric or eco-techno-centric terms. However, in socio-technical-environmental realities in continuous transition, well-being extends to areas that cannot be confined within the notions of comfort or healthiness because it involves material and immaterial, cultural and technical, aesthetic and performative, real and virtual aspects. The aim of this article emerges from studies being conducted as part of Ex-Mind research. It could be possible combining the material and quantifiable dimensions with other aspects that extend the project to sensorial, perceptive and emotional interactions. Important theoretical-scientific evidence is already emerging on this dichotomy to be overcome from areas of project evaluation responsive to the new paradigms of sustainability such as resilience, inclusive placemaking, and well-being according to the flourish model. This could be an alternative bio-psycho-socio-technological methodological vision with which the project is able to define multiple and variable regulatory conditions of well-being, at a building, urban, and territorial level. The vision starts from the determinants of well-being in a broad sense, including natural, cultural socioeconomic-environmental factors, but also individual behavioral, physical and functional factors of people. The possible outcomes of this alternative and integrated hypothesis are related to the reconnection with the production and regeneration processes of the built material, to the reorganization and reinvention of spatial and perceptual relationships between individuals, communities, technologies, environment, and to the integration of non-directly quantifiable subjective variables into the design of the built environment. The proposed integrated bio-psycho-socio-technological vision may open for developments concerning the expansion of the determinants of psycho-physical well-being through new families of performative descriptors and the definition of agile tools, procedures, and metrics to integrate well-being assessments, including consensus-based approaches.