University communities for the green/digital renovation of buildings

The paper shares the research-design experience behind the retrofit pilot-project of a Mediterranean university building, where beXLab is experimenting Digital Twins in a Living Lab context to innovate the building energy renovation process towards the tracked green and digital transitions. Exploiting the digital to support awareness on the energy and environmental challenges, the paper focuses on the multi-level methodology adopted to engage people in the pilot innovation/renovation process: from managers and decision makers responsible for university building and energy assets (survey) to the university community experiencing the Living Lab spaces, starting from students. First results are showing that the need to deepen the knowledge on the impact of buildings the planet and on humans can be addressed only by making people aware of the environmental quality of university spaces, and that digital tools can support this human transition towards a future sustainable buildings and cities