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inhabitants co-shape technological landscapes, dissolving boundaries between infrastructure and lived experience. The mini-review contribution under the title Designing Climate Adaptation in the Urban Space: The Need for a Transdisciplinary Approach synthesizes emerging methodologies in architecture, social innovation, multispecies design, and multisensory studies, arguing that effective climate adaptation requires abandoning rigid planning "organs" in favour of layered, transdisciplinary adaptive systems. The proposed integrated framework positions cities as living, perceptual, ecological, and cultural assemblages, where adaptation involves not only physical interventions but also shifts in soundscapes, bodily experiences, species relationships, and community practices. Climate shelters, biodiversity-inclusive design, and multisensory mapping are presented as tools for cultivating a city that reorganizes itself without fixed organs, continuously adjusting through distributed ecological and social awareness. The manuscript, Designing the city of the future: gender-inclusive strategies for sustainable urban mobility in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area by Mendiola and Gonzalez, extends the post-organic framework to the socio-political domain through a rigorous econometric analysis of gender gaps in mobility. Their findings show that women's mobility patterns are constrained not only by built environment characteristics but also by structural socioeconomic inequalities, revealing that mobility is not an equalizing organ of the urban body but a differentially accessible socio-technical system. The authors demonstrate that improvements in public transport disproportionately benefit women, but that infrastructural changes alone cannot eliminate gender disparities. The post-organic implication is clear: mobility cannot be treated as a singular functional organ, as it is a distributed, relational system shaped by domestic responsibilities, access to vehicles, and safety concerns. A truly post-organic city requires dehierarchizing mobility, embedding equity at every scale of urban planning. García Odiaga and Collantes' contribution In between, an artefact: multiscale hybrid architectural projects for the peri-urban landscape explores one of the most emblematic geographies of the post-organic city: the peri-urban fringe. Through five case studies, the authors conceptualize peri-urban areas as fluid, rhizomatic systems characterized by hyperconnectivity, programmatic indeterminacy, and multifunctionality. Rather than treating these landscapes as incomplete or transitional organs between rural and urban spheres, they position them as territorial assemblages, capable of generating new centralities and infrastructural meanings. Their analysis emphasizes hybrid architectural artifacts that recompose fragmented territories, resonating strongly with the Research Topic's call to envision urban forms beyond rigid classification. The manuscript Material and Social Footprint of Rooftop Photovoltaics in Vitoria-Gasteiz authored by Tro-Cabrera, Lago-Aurrekoetxea, Villamor, Urkidi, Bueno, and Aramendia, aligns directly with EKOPOL's research agenda and illustrates the planetary implications of the postorganic metaphor. Using life cycle assessment (LCA), the authors model the city's rooftop photovoltaic potential and demonstrate both substantial environmental gains and significant material and social trade-offs, particularly regarding metals such as gold (28.5% of global reserves), silver (29.4%), and tin (56.2%) required for the RPV expansion. Their social-LCA results highlight persistent inequalities in the global supply chain, where activity is externalized to developing countries, reproducing extractive patterns. This manuscript makes explicit that the post-organic city must be understood not only as a local spatial system but as a planetary socioecological actor, embedded in global flows of materials, labour, and environmental burdens. Editorial Synthesis and conclusions: Toward a Post-Organic Urban Paradigm Across the diverse methodologies and scales explored: industrial regeneration, renewable energy design, climate adaptation, mobility analysis, peri-urban architecture, and materialsocial LCA, three transversal themes emerge: -The dissolution of functional specialization All six manuscripts critique or replace the idea that cities operate through discrete organs (industry, mobility, housing, energy). Instead, they embrace overlapping functions, hybrid spaces, and distributed agency.-Integration of more-than-human multisensory dimensions The contributions foreground ecological entanglement, multispecies coexistence, and intangible perceptual layers (sound, smell, affect) as essential to future urban design.-Recognition of planetary interdependence and socio-environmental justice Material flows, energy transitions, and gender inequalities reveal that cities cannot be understood in isolation; they are deeply interconnected nodes in global socio-ecological networks.In our role as editors, we wish to thank the authors for the stimulating and thoughtful contributions received. We are honoured to have assembled this collection of manuscripts, which we hope will act as intellectual provocations and offer a modest, manifesto-like step towards a more holistic, inclusive and effective vision of adaptation in a rapidly changing global context.