Urbanization is one of the most important aspects of our time: recent evaluations say that more than half of the people on Earth lives today in a city. This is an amazing phenomenon, under every point of view, if we think that at the beginning of the XIX century the inhabitants of cities were only 5% of the whole population. In reply to the challenge of the exponential growing of cities, the most advanced technology came into action with even more sophisticated applications, based on the interpretation of the “Big Data”. As a result, thanks to the interconnection of the digital networks, the city becomes Smart City and learns how to organize time, space and resources in an intelligent way.
A real revolution, whose long wave has involved also the way of living. The “house of the human“, a concept that has stopped at the trials of big urbanists of the last century, is getting an exceptionally great evolutionary transformation. The idea of “house” changes upon a different and more intelligent design of the living features that make it what it is; a concept of the furnishing, based on a radical as well as innovative re-interpretation of the final use, has deeply changed the traditional repartition of house areas, making the classic time-connected divisions totally old. The smart furniture, result of a research project that joins technology and design, stores the definition of “day” and “night” and makes definitely outdated also the so-called “kid’s bedrooms” category. The metamorphosis that has been possible thanks to clever innovation and that wins on static nature and tradition