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The research presented here represents an 'experiment' in the application of the methodology of the Accessibility Plan to the monumental complex of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. The goal of the research is to attempt to increase the degree of accessibility of the complex through an innovative medium and long-term strategic planning tool that takes into consideration not only tangible aspects (physical and sensory accessibility) but also intangible aspects, thus enabling people to fully visit and understand the cultural significance of the locations, with a focus on the experiential aspect of the visit. In other words, the ultimate objective of the research presented here is to identify ways to enhance the usability and accessibility conditions of the spaces within the monumental complex of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, harmonizing the requirements of heritage preservation with those of accessibility.

During 2022, a research and experimentation project aimed at developing new interactive approaches in the use of cultural heritage was launched within the Virtual Archeology Laboratory of the University of Palermo. Through reflection on the experiences that have characterized the disciplinary field and the observation of the possibilities offered by the videogame world, we proceeded to define a protocol called URBE which provides for the development of simulation ecosystems, through game-type software engine, within which users play the role of protagonists of the proposed experience, being able to relate independently with the virtual resources. These elements have made it possible to develop edutainment dynamics with a strong communicative impact and a high degree of immersion which are proposed as an ideal solution in the context of the valorisation of cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Il teatro dei pupi a Catania, nell’Ottocento, è oggetto di numerose indagini che ne hanno esplorato le complesse valenze culturali e sociali. In questo articolo sono pubblicati per la prima volta insieme due testi significativi di Giuseppe Crimi (1854-1937) che in essi mise in luce l’attività di puparo a Catania, fin dal 1835, di suo padre Gaetano (Licata 1808 - Catania 1873). I due testi, composti tra il 1923 e il 1927, sono animati da intenti polemici e rivendicano il primato di Gaetano e della sua famiglia di pupari e attori rispetto a quella rivale dei Grasso. In particolare, le sono costruite su uno schema “drammatico” che fa di Gaetano il protagonista e dei suoi figli Carmelo, Francesco e Giuseppe i deuteragonisti.

Il Kalevala, poema epico finlandese per eccellenza, ospita un repertorio singolare di episodi riferiti a una concezione ‘mitologica’ dell’infanzia. Ciò lo rende un proficuo ambito di applicazione per uno studio dell’educazione informale in connessione al patrimonio culturale. Dopo aver stabilito come quest’ultimo costituisca la chiave di volta per lo studio dei processi informali di apprendimento, il presente contributo adotta la prospettiva dell’Umanesimo Metropolita per l’Educazione [Greater Humanities for Education] allo scopo di condurre un’analisi tematica delle istanze del Kalevala riguardanti l’infanzia che tenga conto delle dimensioni empirica, storica, ermeneutica ed etico-morale del fenomeno letterario in questione. Lo studio di caso che ne deriva mostra un concetto poliedrico di infanzia, che alterna concezioni deficitarie a forme di eccezionalismo. Dalle articolazioni di tale concetto emerge una teoria folk della formazione che in questo contributo è ribattezzata fatalismo formativo. A conclusione dell’elaborato, si ricavano induttivamente i tre pilastri del fatalismo formativo del Kalevala: (i) il determinismo intergenerazionale (storia); (ii) il quasi-determinismo della tradizione; (iii) l’idiosincrasia formativa dei percorsi esistenziali individuali. Vista l’ampia patrimonializzazione del Kalevala e il suo ruolo nella formazione dell’identità collettiva finlandese, si conclude riflettendo su come tale fatalismo possa coniugarsi con gli aspetti più progressisti della società finlandese contemporanea.

For centuries, high-altitude landscapes remained untouched by human activities. Between the 19th and 20th century, the construction possibilities offered by industrialisation and the economic prosperity in Europe after the second World War period, started a progressive modification of the Italian mountain skyline. The most significant interventions generally took place above 1,500 metres altitude over sea level, where snow persisted in the winter months. Alpine skiing, the magical discipline of ‘gliding’, was born and developed within this context, as the business of high-altitude mass tourism too.Right from the beginning of the 20th century, in the Apennines, and on the Gran Sasso d’Italia in particular, the highest and most significant peaks became attractive hubs for the first ski facilities, which were created on both the L’Aquila and Teramo sides. Less successful were the initiatives for Castel del Monte and Campotosto, that definitively died out in the following decade. These areas, on the margins of the Gran Sasso region [Fig. 1], were undertaken in a delicate and complex context at the end of the 1960s. In those years, the mass tourism profit due to Alpine skiing began to decline, the interests of local communities clashed with entrepreneurial initiatives, and the process of formation of the National Park was in sight, ready to limit building investments on areas of environmental value.This study analyses the planning instruments and building proposals for these two locations as evidence of the desire to import the mass tourism system of the Alpine area to the mountains of L’Aquila. It lies, ever since, on the limbo between remaining magnificently virgin and being terribly abandoned.DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.31.2023.11

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Constantinos Doxiadis devoted most of his life to urban and regional planning. His work was globalized, futuristic and extraordinarily ambitious, yet he was fascinated by local contexts, history, and ancient civilizations. The Doxiadis Associates, the Athens-based international consulting firm that he founded in the mid-1950’s, completed projects in over 40 countries. His Ekistics movement had associates throughout the world and he attracted thousands of students and conference participants to Greece. After a four-year illness, he died a year before the first United Nations Habitat Conference, held in Vancouver in Summer 1976, yet he capped his prolific publication record with four books for presentation at the conference.

Between 2019 and 2022, the team of the Kurdish-Italian Faida Archaeological Project (KIFAP) found thirteen Assyrian rock reliefs in Faida, Northern Iraqi Kurdistan. The archaeological mission was conducted by Professor Daniele Morandi Bonacossi from the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage (DIUM) of the University of Udine together with the Directorate of Antiquities of Duhok. The finding of the first ten rock reliefs of the VIII Century BC earned the title of the most important archaeological discovery of 2019, winning the prestigious 2022 International Archaeological Discovery Award Khaled al-Asaad. Four years later, on October 16th, 2022, the Faida Archaeological Park was officially opened, the first of its kind in Iraq.

The proposed decree of the Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security (MASE) encourages spreading self-consumption forms of energy from renewable sources, including Renewable Energy Communities (RECs). The paper proposes a mapping of the CERs already active in Italy, considerations on the main barriers that, at a national and international level, have hindered their diffusion, dwelling on the problems of compatibility in safeguarded and protected areas. Recalling projects and guidelines for installing photovoltaics in sensitive contexts, a first approach for a new CER in a UNESCO site is proposed as an opportunity to directly involve the Ministry of Culture as an actor in the energy transition processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In 1889, on his return from a study journey to Burma, the Italian naturalist and explorer Leonardo Fea presented the Royal Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography in Rome, directed by Professor Luigi Pigorini, with numerous objects of ethnographic interest, including some bronze drums: traditional instruments, which he had had the opportunity of observing in actual use, becoming aware of the social prestige with them associated, during a stay in the remote Karen region. A recent analysis about these items, kept at the Museum of Civilizations of Rome, has made it possible to expand the investigations previously carried out in the light of new data acquired in recent decades by international researchers. The research path adopted follows a multidisciplinary approach, making use of sources relating to human geography, ethnography, cultural anthropology and archaeology. With the aim of illustrating the powerful cultural and symbolic values embodied by these characteristic musical instruments; objects that relate to a wide geographical and human territory conjectured in South-East Asia, the "Zomia". A fluid space which, according to the American anthropologist James C. Scott, transcends the official borders of states and in the course of history has stubbornly eluded their administrative claims and impositions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the research was to modernize the typographic cultural heritage, which was an integral part of our ancestors' living culture, i.e. embroidered wall tablecloths that adorned many households from the late 19th and to the second half of the 20th century. We analysed rare preserved embroidered wall tablecloths from the Podravina area in Croatia. For modern use, we designed a digitized typeface based on hand-embroidered letters on preserved tablecloths. The digitization process consisted of several phases: collecting embroidered tablecloths, photographing and measuring them, structural and typographic analysis, determining parameters for typeface design, the design and digitization, making appropriate metrics for modern use. From 20 samples, three were chosen with the most aesthetic and best quality embroidered letters. Numerous capital letters, digits and non-letter signs that were not found on the analysed wall tablecloths were designed by us. Stylistically, all letter and non-letter characters were unified. The most time-consuming was the coordination of linking strokes between letters, for the empty spaces between the letters in words being optically equal. The digitization of school handwriting was a demanding job. In the newly designed kitchen towels, we wanted to convey some elements from the life, habits and values of our ancestors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given their incorporation into varying sociopolitical systems from the turn of the 20th century to 1954, as well as their varied ethnic composition, the regions of Istria and Dalmatia have experienced frequent instances of symbolic appropriation of movable culture and related subsequent demands for the restitution of the latter to the land of origin. In the paper, the author expounds upon the problem and fate of the movable cultural heritage of the area of today's Slovenian Istria, in particular Piran, through a series of works that once adorned the complex of Piran's cathedral, i.e., the Parish Church of St. George, the baptistery, the monastery of St. Francis, as well as a number of other churches in the town, the hospital and the town hall. Based on the existing literature and several unpublished archival sources, the paper explores the problem within the broader context of the administrative and political systems of the Austrian Littoral and, later, the Julian March, and within their respective heritage protection laws, examining in particular the reasons for the alienation of movable cultural heritage from this area and its consequences. It traces the fate of individual works of art removed from the churches, monastic buildings and secular institutions in the Piran area, some as early as the 19th century, but most of them in June 1940, when artworks were evacuated en masse from Koper, Izola, and Piran, and follows their transfer, first to Villa Manin in Passariano, then, in 1943, to San Daniele del Friuli and, after the war, to Rome. The author illustrates the "odysseys" of individual works of art, identifying their current locations, while also relating of the efforts or demands for their restitution on the part of the post-war authorities, and some of the divergences in the assessment and current views of this issue among Italian and Slovene scholars. Considerable attention is paid to the post-war situation, as well as to the establishment of the Museum of Piran (now called the Piran Maritime Museum) and the work of the Commission for the Protection of Monuments, which were both initially headed by Miroslav Pahor, who, at the time, was also in charge of the reorganisation and coordination of the old town library and archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Il saggio analizza come le nuove tecnologie e il governo di Internet impattano sul patrimonio culturale fortemente provato dagli eventi emergenziali. Il nostro Paese si è trovato ad affrontare crisi che hanno prodotto effetti negativi anche nella prospettiva delle funzioni di tutela, valorizzazione e gestione dei beni culturali e del paesaggio. La chiave di lettura ipotizzata come faro per l’equilibrio tra i molteplici interessi coinvolti potrebbe essere l’applicazione dello sviluppo sostenibile come principio-obiettivo trasversale anche nell’ottica delle misure da adottare in esecuzione del PNRR.

The conservation risks associated with climate change to which heritage is subjected represent one of the most significant issues arising from the adoption of the 1972 World Heritage Convention. The Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of World Heritage Listed sites and the conditions of integrity and authenticity, which were essential requirements at the time of their nomination and inscription, may be compromised or no longer be met over time as a result of the effects of climate action on heritage assets. While the value of sustainability has assumed a predominant role in the multiple social, cultural, economic and environmental contexts and is in affinity with many of the theoretical premises within the discipline of restoration, this study aims to reflect on some of the systemic principles and parameters through which a restoration product can be defined as sustainable, considering the material authenticity and uniqueness of World Heritage architectural artefacts, and the spatial-temporal implications related to the conservation of cultural heritage.

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The use of digital technologies is an open and very rapidly evolving field of investigation and experimentation. This paper addresses their role in Cultural Heritage (CH) safeguarding activities, drawing on the research results of the H2020 project "4CH-Competence Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage" (CC) [GA 101004468]. 4CH moves from the human-centric vision of digital transformation, advocated by the EU, and envisages an interdisciplinary approach, combining theoretical and practical knowledge, all in support of a reflection on the role of enabling technologies, the new skills associated with them, the CH preservation and enhancement related approaches, and their integration into the established technical culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The right to freedom of religion or belief is explicitly recognised in various instruments of international law. The protection of places of worship and their integrity, however, remains difficult and heavily influenced by factual circumstances rather than general issues relating to their nature. During armed conflicts, places of worship are fundamentally protected by virtue of their historical and artistic significance rather than their religious connotation – thus merely as an expression of the cultural heritage of the populations involved. In times of peace, however, places of worship do not seem to enjoy special protection, and simply fall under the broader protection of freedom of religion or belief. The lack of an organic regulation on the protection of places of worship makes the situation even more complex, since the multiple rules forming the legal regime of places of worship must be sought and assembled from various instruments of applicable law. It is also unclear whether places of worship are to be considered mere properties, places the destination of which is the expression of religious rituals, or religious symbols in their own right; this uncertainty makes it difficult to determine the applicable legal regime at the international level. This article has thus a twofold objective: to provide a comprehensive overview of the rules of international law protecting places of worship, as well as to present a question to the international and ecclesiastical legal scholarships, with implications that are anything but merely theoretical, on the right to visibility of places of worship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay examines the discipline of buildings and places of worship in the Concordats stipulated by the Holy See after the Second Vatican Council. The first part examines immunities and guarantees for these places. The second part is dedicated to the rules of favor for the building of worship in the context of the right to religious freedom. The third and last part examines places of worship in the context of cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The research deepens the role of new technologies in the construction of geographical imaginaries investigating the dimension of the offer related to the cultural heritage of the city of Palermo. The study was conducted using qualitative methods and provided for the application of two research techniques: participant observation and semi-structured interviews. By interpreting the results produced, the contribution aims to highlight the predominance of an urban image, linked to the UNESCO inclusion of the site in the World Heritage List, which is conveyed through new technologies. Developing a reflection on the alternative capacity of new media to dislocate and challenge shared images, the study will also examine the role of technologies in the production of imaginative counter-geographies.

Downstream from Sityround, we work every day to enable effective digital management of virtualized assets, not only through "simple" 3D modeling (first almost elementary result of survey activities) or through the consequent accurate calculation of volumes, but rather animated by desire to provide a real tool for the current and continuous management of the historical, architectural and building heritage, where each of the geometric elements of the valuable artefacts finds the opportunity for its own geocoding, in which the information characterizing the element, descriptive patrimonial, maintenance and customs, inextricably linked to the individual dimensional components of the point cloud itself and the photographic heritage that gives rise to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

4° Workshop Internazionale sui Paesaggi Sonori La Società Svizzera di Studi Teatrali, in collaborazione con l’Accademia Teatro Dimitri e il Dipartimento Formazione e Apprendimento della Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana e con il sostegno della Accademia Svizzera di Scienze Umane e Sociali, nell’ambito della rassegna di manifestazioni “La Suisse existe - La Suisse n’existe pas / Raum - Espace” ha promosso la realizzazione del 4° Workshop Internazionale sui Paesaggi Sonori, che si è svolto il 13 e 14 giugno 2019 tra Verscio e Locarno (CH).

Il confronto da cui hanno preso forma alcune delle riflessioni presentate in questo numero è stato promosso attraverso uno strumento di lavoro partecipativo: l’Open Space Technology 2. Si tratta di un metodo d’interazione che scommette sulla spontaneità, lasciando ai partecipanti la definizione dei temi da trattare.

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The digitization of the Cultural Heritage is radically changing places and workers/professionals/operators of the italian cultural system. This process has activated new paths of knowledge and valorization, placing the emphasis on the need to identify innovative tools and methodologies, and to ensure a rationalization of activities of Cultural Institutioins. From this point of view, HERA, the digital platform of the Parco Archeologico di Paestum e Velia, is setting new standards for digitization, knowledge and management of the Heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ecological modernisation evokes circular patterns and processes. It places the city and the university in a symbiotic relationship. The University's Third Mission acquires a particular relevance in this perspective. It must therefore be strengthened above all on a cultural and civic level. A concrete possibility, proposed here, appears to be connected to the role and mission of emeritus professors. They can in particular contribute in the direction of enhancing and operationalising the "transformative potential of the city for the common good", complementing the already existing institutional academic initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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I plastiglomerati – formazioni geologiche di origine antropogenica, in cui come risultato della combustione diversi tipi di plastica si mescolano con sedimenti dell’ambiente circostante (Corcoran, Moore, & Jazvac, 2014) – simboleggiano l’ambivalenza dello spirito del nostro tempo/spazio, in cui non è più possibile separare – in questo caso quasi letteralmente – ciò che è artificiale da ciò che è naturale. In questo lavoro si presentano immagini di plastigomerati fotografati a Villavicencio, in Colombia. In questo caso specifico, questo tipo di sedimento è frutto della combustione di buste di polietilene di bassa densità (LDPE), che vengono usate per coprire e proteggere il frutto del platano. Una volta usate e scartate, le buste di plastica vengono bruciate e sotterrate nelle zone vicine alle piantagioni.

Among the lines of action foreseen for the reorganization of the Mibac (D.M. 23 January 2016, n. 44), the integration between culture and tourism plays a leading role in the enhancement of cultural heritage, also trough the creation of regional museum centres, aimed at promoting a fruitful dialogue between the institution and the territory. The essay focuses on an interesting example of collaboration between the Superintandence for Cultural Heritage of the province of Reggio Calabria and the local administration of Bova, a small historical centre in the province of Reggio Calabria. Bova is the capital of the Grecanic area, a territory in the south part of the Metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria, strongly characterized by the presence of Greeks in the past and the persistence of neo-Greek language and traditions. The strong sense of identity of inhabitants triggered, since the end of the 90s, a process of re-launch of the village with interventions aimed, not only at the restoration of the historic centre, but also the protection of the landscape and the Greek-Calabrian language. La riforma organizzativa MIBAC come occasione di supporto alle iniziative dei borghi in via di spopolamento: il caso di Bova Tra le linee di azione previste nella riorganizzazione del Mibact (D.M. 23 gennaio 2016 n. 44) vi è l’integrazione tra cultura e turismo, perseguibile attraverso una visione unitaria e olistica delle funzioni di tutela demandate alle Soprintendenze e con la creazione di poli museali regionali, finalizzati a promuovere il proficuo dialogo tra le istituzioni e il territorio. L'articolazione delle Soprintendenze "uniche" Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio in aree funzionali, consente inoltre di supportare il Soprintendente nell'esercizio delle funzioni di tutela nel territorio di competenze specialistiche di settore che, nel caso specifico dei beni demo-etnoantropologici, risultano implementate rispetto al passato. Un interessante esempio di recupero e valorizzazione di un borgo storico e del suo patrimonio identitario è quello messo in atto dal comune di Bova, paese grecofono dell’Aspromonte meridionale. Il paese, pur avendo subito un significativo fenomeno di abbandono, non ha mai perduto il ruolo di capoluogo culturale dei greci di Calabria, per il forte senso identitario dei suoi abitanti e perché punto di riferimento spirituale dei residenti dell’hinterland, non a caso chiamato bovesia. Sono questi gli ingredienti basilari che hanno consentito, alla fine degli anni ‘90, di avviare il processo di recupero del borgo di Bova, grazie al lavoro sinergico tra il comune di Bova, gli enti di sviluppo locali, il Parco Nazionale d’Aspromonte e gli Uffici periferici del Mibac.

The present paper presents the topics of the Public History and the Audience Engagement, narrowing the focus from the theoretical and methodological issues, to several case-studies, developed within the urban scope of Turin (Italy): the study starts reviewing the international strategic policies, and proceeds throughout the local practises. Therefore, Atelier Héritage, permanent educational workshop, devoted to the cultural heritage and located in the district of Barriera di Milano (Turin), has been described as the last dowel of a deeper analysis: it includes both the referees to the UN agencies resolutions on sustainable urban development and cultural accessibility, and the European long-term strategies. Actually, Turin is a particular breeding ground for multifarious practises, actively involving the citizens into cultural processes: these experiences make them aware and capable of designing new shapes of participation. Into the present study, there are also other cases, specifically focused on the historical knowledge, and equally meaningful. Thus, Atelier Héritage must be properly identified into Turin, capital of the Public History and of the Audience Engagement: indeed, this lab aims to provide children, living in condition of marginalization, the tools to understand the urban space as community heritage. Public History e Audience Engagement: lo spazio costruito come patrimonio di comunità. Lo studio presenta, con un progressivo restringimento di focus, i temi della Public History e dell’Audience Engagement, dai presupposti teorici che ne costituiscono il fondamento metodologico, ad alcuni casi applicativi, nell’ambito specifico della città di Torino: si procede dall’analisi dei documenti programmatici internazionali, alle prassi sperimentate a scala locale. Pertanto, il caso di Atelier Héritage, laboratorio permanente di didattica del patrimonio culturale, nel quartiere torinese di Barriera di Milano, è presentato come ultimo tassello di una riflessione complessa: infatti, il riferimento teorico si trova tanto nelle risoluzioni su sviluppo urbano sostenibile e accessibilità culturale delle Agenzie ONU, quanto nella programmazione di lungo termine delle istituzioni europee. Il capoluogo piemontese, infatti, si è dimostrato un terreno particolarmente fertile, su cui far attecchire esperienze multiformi, volte coinvolgere attivamente i cittadini nei processi culturali, al fine di renderli protagonisti consapevoli della costruzione di nuove forme di partecipazione: altrettanto significative sono state le pratiche centrate specificatamente sulla conoscenza storica. In una Torino, capitale della Public History e dell’Audience Engagement, si colloca dunque Atelier Héritage, un’esperienza che mira a fornire a bambini, che vivono in condizione di marginalità socio-economica, strumenti per interpretare lo spazio urbano come patrimonio di comunità.

The Aspromonte National Park has been established in 1994. It is a protected area which includes thirty-seven municipalities; nine of them have less than a thousand inhabitants, and eight municipalities have less then two thousand inhabitants. The first settlements date back to the first millennium B.C., when the Greeks populated this area and hand on the values of their own culture and customs such as growing cereals, olives and vines for the production of wine. Over time, natural events and human activities negatively affected the possibility of living in the villages. These events contributed to a drastic depopulation followed by a deterioration of the cultural heritage and historical memory. There was also an alteration of the traditional landscape, especially the rural ones, a loss of biodiversity, and a decrease in the places’ safety over time. In the last years, The Aspromonte National Park has been working to support tangible and intangible values. Today, it is also active in the organization of events related to experiential and outdoor tourism to support small towns in projects to enhance villages. Borghi sospesi tra presente e futuro Il Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte è stato istituito nel 1994. Si tratta di un’area protetta che comprende trentasette comuni, nove dei quali hanno meno di mille abitanti e otto meno di duemila. I primi insediamenti risalgono al primo millennio a.C., quando i Greci popolarono questa zona tramandando i valori della propria cultura e dei propri costumi come la coltivazione dei cereali, delle olive viti per la produzione di vino. Nel tempo, gli eventi naturali e le attività umane hanno influito negativamente sulla possibilità di vivere nei villaggi. Questi eventi hanno contribuito a un drastico spopolamento seguito da un deterioramento del patrimonio culturale e della memoria storica. C'è stata anche un'alterazione dei paesaggi tradizionali, soprattutto quelli rurali, una perdita di biodiversità e un aumento della fragilità di questi insediamenti nel tempo. Negli ultimi anni il Parco Nazionale dell'Aspromonte ha collaborato con le amministrazioni comunali e le comunità locali a sostenere valori tangibili e intangibili. Oggi è attivo anche nell’organizzazione di eventi legati al turismo esperienziale e all'aria aperta per supportare i piccoli comuni in progetti di valorizzazione dei borghi.

Il tema dello spopolamento delle aree interne e delle strategie per il loro rilancio è da qualche tempo tornato alla ribalta a seguito della pandemia e del conseguente periodo di quarantena che, tra le altre cose, ha messo a nudo le numerose fragilità dei grandi centri urbani. Dopo decenni di appelli inascoltati, all’improvviso sembra si sia scoperto quanto piacevole e sostenibile possa essere vivere nei piccoli centri delle aree interne e si ripropone, forse con più forza, una questione che era già al centro di alcune strategie e azioni sia a scala nazionale che europea. Ripercorrendo temi e problemi emersi nel corso del convegno internazionale “Un paese ci vuole”. Studi e prospettive per i centri abbandonati e in via di spopolamento, tenutosi a Reggio Calabria nel novembre del 2018, il saggio propone una riflessione sulle reali prospettive di ripopolamento di piccoli centri in aree marginali partendo da alcune parole chiave che dovrebbero auspicabilmente guidare i programmi di rinascita. Al centro della riflessione si pone il ruolo che il patrimonio culturale può avere in questi processi, nella prospettiva però di un significativo cambio di paradigma che inserisce la conservazione e valorizzazione di tali beni in un processo circolare che parte dal territorio (inteso come un sistema complesso dove processi storici, culturali ed economici si intrecciano con le pratiche sociali) e al territorio ritorna. Strategies and Policies for Relaunching Depopulated Small Towns in Inner Areas. A Human Scale Perspective The topic of abandonment has become more topical than ever in the last few months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March 2020, newspapers and blogs have been dedicating at least one article or editorial per day to the incredible rediscovery of how sustainable and liveable lockdown has been in hamlets and small towns in inner areas rather than in big cities. Thus, it seems that after years of unheard appeals from small local communities at risk of disappearing, rather than being a problem, small towns are now becoming important resources. Starting from the topics and issues proposed during the International Conference One needs a town. Studies and perspectives for abandoned or depopulated small towns, held in Reggio Calabria in 2018, the essay focuses on the concrete perspectives for the repopulation of small towns in inner areas. The perspective, which recalls the approach of the Conference, implies a more dynamic idea of repopulation, which involves the economic and social regeneration of these territories. Moreover, the purpose is also to verify if and how the enhancement of cultural heritage might play a significant role in hindering depopulation. In other words, the aim is to reflects on how culture may play a part within the broader economic and social strategies for the repopulation of marginal areas, including cultural heritage, which is the focus of the essay.