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The field of application of the research proposed in this contribution - with reference to the objective of the 2030 Agenda "to protect and safeguard the cultural and natural heritage of the world" - is the vast range of contemporary landscapes in the Mediterranean area defined as "neglected" or at risk of compromise or disappearance despite having (or having had) a role of fundamental identity for the communities. The product of the research is the construction of an atlas of strategies - developed in design workshops, educational laboratories, theoretical and applied research and through activities of additional fieldwork - exportable and transferable in contexts similar to those analysed. Specifically, this contribution contains three in-depth studies concerning the abandoned rural terraces along the coastline, the rivers compromised by the phenomena of uncontrolled urbanism and the depopulated villages in the internal areas. The three case studies are associated with three key concepts - unveiling, layering, re-configuring - in both the narrative and application. The ultimate aim is the experimentation of an interpretative / operational approach that embraces the principles of environmental, social and economic sustainability - considered essential in the contemporary world - in relation to the specificity of the cultural and identity features of the Mediterranean landscapes, of the link between ritual and representation and of the relationship between myth and history. Strategie rigenerative per paesaggi mediterranei negletti Il campo di applicazione della ricerca proposta in questo contributo – in riferimento all’obiettivo dell’Agenda 2030 “proteggere e salvaguardare il patrimonio culturale e naturale del mondo” – è la vasta gamma di paesaggi della contemporaneità in area mediterranea definiti “negletti” in quanto a rischio di compromissione o sparizione pur avendo (o avendo avuto) un ruolo identitario fondamentale per le comunità di abitanti in essi insediati. Il prodotto della ricerca è la costruzione di un atlante di strategie – sperimentate in workshop progettuali, laboratori didattici, ricerche teoriche e applicate, attività di terza missione – esportabili e trasferibili in contesti similari a quelli analizzati. Nello specifico di questo contributo sono esposti tre approfondimenti che riguardano: i terrazzamenti rurali abbandonati lungo le linee di costa; le fiumare compromesse dai fenomeni di urbanesimo incontrollato; i borghi spopolati nei territori interni. Ai tre casi studio sono associati i tre concetti chiave – svelamenti, sovrascritture, riconfigurazioni – in una duplice dimensione narrativa e applicativa. Lo scopo ultimo è la sperimentazione di un approccio interpretativo/operativo che accolga i principi di sostenibilità ambientale, sociale, economica – ritenuti imprescindibili nella contemporaneità – declinandoli in relazione alla specificità dei caratteri culturali e identitari dei paesaggi mediterranei, del legame fra rito e rappresentazione, del rapporto tra mito e storia.

Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the association between psychiatric disease, climatic and seasonal factors in patients recorded to the Emergency Unit, in Messina Hospital (Italy). Method: A total of 6565 psychiatric patients were recorded to the Emergency Unit in Messina from January 2005 and December 2010. Each psychiatric visit in emergency, was categorized by date of appearance and admitting diagnosis according to diagnostic categories: Anxiety, Mood Disorders and Psychosis. Local weather data were obtained from the Metereological Instituted “Aereonautica Militare” station in Messina, Sicily, In addition, to gathering data on the state of the sky, temperature, atmosphericpressure with the normalized value at sea level, relative humidity, rainfall, wind direction and speed, the station is connected to a buoy located on the eastern sector of Tyrrhenian Sea. Results: In anxiety disorders we have found relevant results comparison between winter and spring (p=.007) and spring and fall (p=.001). In affective disorders the differences occur in relation to winter and fall (p=.002), spring and fall (p=001), spring and summer (p=002). The psychotic disorder presents significant differences between summer and fall (p=.001) and spring and fall (p=.002). Conclusions: We can observe a similarity of affective disorders, i.e. anxiety and mood disorders compared to psychosis, which have different influences and probably according to dissimilar etiopathogenetic ways. In our research, the distribution of anxiety disorders is higher than depressive disorders in terms of delivering emergency room visits. The major differences occur comparing spring and fall, the seasons when all pathological classes have significant differences. It follows that the most abrupt climate change, typical of these seasons, as a whole, cause psychopathological emergencies. The study is important for planning a more effective assistance for patients needing psychiatric support.

Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the association between psychiatric disease, climatic and seasonal factors in patients recorded to the Emergency Unit, in Messina Hospital (Italy). Method: A total of 6565 psychiatric patients were recorded to the Emergency Unit in Messina from January 2005 and December 2010. Each psychiatric visit in emergency, was categorized by date of appearance and admitting diagnosis according to diagnostic categories: Anxiety, Mood Disorders and Psychosis. Local weather data were obtained from the Metereological Instituted “Aereonautica Militare” station in Messina, Sicily, In addition, to gathering data on the state of the sky, temperature, atmosphericpressure with the normalized value at sea level, relative humidity, rainfall, wind direction and speed, the station is connected to a buoy located on the eastern sector of Tyrrhenian Sea. Results: In anxiety disorders we have found relevant results comparison between winter and spring (p=.007) and spring and fall (p=.001). In affective disorders the differences occur in relation to winter and fall (p=.002), spring and fall (p=001), spring and summer (p=002). The psychotic disorder presents significant differences between summer and fall (p=.001) and spring and fall (p=.002). Conclusions: We can observe a similarity of affective disorders, i.e. anxiety and mood disorders compared to psychosis, which have different influences and probably according to dissimilar etiopathogenetic ways. In our research, the distribution of anxiety disorders is higher than depressive disorders in terms of delivering emergency room visits. The major differences occur comparing spring and fall, the seasons when all pathological classes have significant differences. It follows that the most abrupt climate change, typical of these seasons, as a whole, cause psychopathological emergencies. The study is important for planning a more effective assistance for patients needing psychiatric support.