The concept of “emergency” indicates the existence of a contested area: the positioning in relation to the predictable and the unpredictable that generates objects of research. The double meaning of the term “emergency” reflects two intellectual traditions that are at the base of the investigation of change. While, on the one hand, human dignity urges us to combat or alleviate the damage, even if we do not have a clear idea of ​​the phenomena, on the other hand, the drastic alteration of normality constitutes the opportunity to discover how the world works and to invent new ways of doing and living.