The unbearable lightness of expertness or space creation in the “climate change” era: A theoretical extension of the “constructal law” for building and urban design

•Climate change era and need for an interdisciplinary stimulation.•Dispersed and less accessible knowledge to various decision centers.•Need for interaction between different disciplines.•Stimulate the “radical imaginary”.•Understanding and control of decision-making.

BackgroundThe term “climate change” indicates a long-term systematic change in the statistical distribution of atmospheric parameters (temperature, humidity, wind) for an extended period (decades or centuries, or even millions of years). Knowledge of environmental changes, including “climate change” and its likely measurable or predictable impacts on the earth and human environments, exist.MethodsMany researchers around the world from a variety of disciplines analyze, model, and simulate the involved phenomena, with the main purpose of increasing our understanding of the close relationship between the environment and the anthroposphere. However, the dispersion and the non-availability of this knowledge to enhance informed decision-making by promoting detailed information concerning significant environmental impacts available to both social and positive sciences, reveals the urgency to develop an interdisciplinary platform that allows evaluating the impact of their decisions.ResultsHence, this paper aims to start the debate that hypothesizes in a theoretical basis the urgent need for a radical transformation of decision-making processes through building and urban design regarding the multiscale constructed environment, while this transformation should be interdisciplinary and imposed by predictable changes of natural and artificial contexts of operation, socially and culturally induced by taking into account the society as the real operator of sustainable development issue. In order to transform the procedure of city creation, it is proposed here to employ the Bejan's “constructal law” applied to building and urban design to describe the natural tendency of flow systems in an interdisciplinary manner.