Guidelines for the design of Digital Platforms for wellness and inclusion: Shaping future community of citizens

The primary objective of the presented article is to explore and critically outline the possibilities offered by digital platforms in the urban context of the future, enabling the wellbeing and care of individuals and communities, asserting that in a fragmented social context, the development of aggregation services and the reconfiguration of social networks is crucial to respond to the pluralisation and changing needs (Kazepov & Barberis, 2013; Kazepov & Cefalo, 2009). This article is part of the preliminary research activity of the ‘NXT Digital Platform’ project, which aims to design a ‘care platform’ to improve the holistic well-being of citizens in their territorial and cultural context of reference. This article represents a reasoned exploratory review of the literature that focuses on a multidisciplinary approach, integrating theoretical and practical methods from the technical disciplines of design and architecture with those provided by humanistic and social fields, such as socio-semiotics, cultural studies and urban sociology. Starting from the critical premise, a first scenario has been defined exploring the relationship between city and wellness for the outdoor sports activities.