Advancing the Design Process Experience of Heritage Buildings’ Renovation: A Toolkit for an Ethical Best Path

The paper focuses on the innovation and sustainability of energy renovations for public buildings in the Mediterranean area by means of more inclusive and digital processes. Aligning with the most ambitious directions of the European Green Deal and collaterals in the sector, the research object of this contribution consented to experiment strategies for engaging people in building energy renovation processes, tested in the development of a real-case pilot through Living Lab and digital twin methodologies. With the aim to stimulate an ethical evolution in renovation praxes and outcomes for public buildings retrofit, the contribution shares the methodology, the structure and the main contents of the project’s research output (Toolkit) guiding step by step more inclusive processes for a green and digital but also social transition.