The increasingly widespread use of the new technologies, which are progressively making for more “intelligent” ways of managing domestic life (a subject that will be the focus of the Phygital House macrotrend), is accompanied by a return to lower-intensity technologies. On one hand their use evidences a conscious rediscovery of ancient traditions and, on the other, a responsible attitude to the use of available energy resources and to the impact design choices and lifestyles have on the environment. 

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