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Smart working, an opportunity for triggering building recovery processes and reducing territorial inequalities?/ Smart working, un’opportunità per attivare processi di recupero dell’ambiente costruito e ridurre le disuguaglianze territoriali?
No full textThe paper examines the relationship between social innovation and territorial development in marginalised Italian areas affected by depopulation, ageing, and the abandonment of built heritage. While urban centres continue to attract young people seeking employment and personal growth, the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated a temporary trend reversal through remote working, encouraging some workers to return to their places of origin. This return, coupled with initiatives like the "South working®" network, demonstrates the potential for territorial regeneration by fostering collaborative and innovative uses of underused spaces. The study focuses on how smart working and bottom-up initiatives contribute to local development by enhancing social cohesion, reusing abandoned spaces, and creating new economic opportunities. The paper proposes a research agenda aimed at evaluating the long-term impact of these initiatives on the regeneration of marginalised areas, asking whether they primarily involve space reuse or also activate processes of human resource enhancement, skills development, and local regeneration
The Circular City Implementation: Cultural Heritage and Digital Technology
No full textIn a word that is increasingly facing issues related to climate change, environmental degradation, economic crisis and social inequalities, rethinking the urban development models is becoming an “imperative”. Furthermore, the COVID-19 is accelerating this necessity. In fact, the health emergency has affected almost all sectors, determining radical change in economic and social systems. Tourism and culture are among those most affected and therefore they require strategies to support their recovery and to strengthen their resilience for the future. The closure of cultural venues has highlighted the importance of finding alternative ways to join cultural heritage and to allow it continuing to develop its productive potential. In this context, the importance of the opportunities offered by digital technologies for conservation, valorization and enjoyment of cultural heritage has emerged. This study proposes the circular city as a new urban development model to achieve a more sustainable future, focusing in particular on cultural heritage as an entry point to implement this model. Furthermore, the role of technology is investigated as “enabler” of inclusive and sustainable culture-based development processes for supporting the implementation of the circular city model
A participatory approach for “circular” adaptive reuse of cultural heritage. Building a heritage community in Salerno, Italy
Full text linkCultural heritage is recognized as a key element for local sustainable development, contributing to the identity of territories and cultural diversity of local communities. The concept of “heritage community”, as expressed by the Faro Convention, can be enhanced in decision-making processes for the adaptive reuse and valorization of cultural heritage to build shared and sustainable development scenarios. Communities represent fundamental actors able to drive active reflection and implement the exercise of civic responsibility and (inter)cultural policies. This paper explores how local communities can have an active and effective role in the adaptive reuse and valorization of cultural heritage, through a field experimentation conducted within the Horizon 2020 project “CLIC—Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural heritage adaptive reuse” in the area of Rufoli, Salerno (Italy), in the perspective of the circular economy/circular city model. Starting from heritage mapping and key stakeholder’s engagement, a local working group was built, and processes of knowledge building, envisioning, and community engagement were activated. The results showed that building a heritage community can be an effective starting point for “circular” adaptive reuse of cultural heritage, stimulating not only its recovery but also community bonds, civic responsibility, and potential entrepreneurial activities for longer-term sustainable development
Multicriteria Evaluation Framework for Industrial Heritage Adaptive Reuse: The Role of the ‘Intrinsic Value’
Full text linkAt the end of the 20th century, most industrial cities faced a massive phase of de-industrialisation, resulting in abandoned areas. However, these areas, rich in history and heritage, can represent significant resources for the regeneration of entire territories. Adaptive Reuse (AR) is one of the most appropriate strategies for the sustainable regeneration of brownfield sites: it gives new life to a ‘dead’ land, extending its use value so that it can continue to be enjoyed both by present and future generations. Decision-making processes concerning Industrial Heritage Adaptive Reuse (IHAR) cannot ignore the role that ‘intrinsic value’ plays in orienting development choices in such areas. Adopting participatory decision-making processes enables the inclusion of different values and interests of the stakeholders and, at the same time, increasing their awareness about the decision-making problem, thus reducing conflicts. This contribution intends to propose an evaluation framework to assess the multidimensional impacts of IHAR, considering the different values characterising them, and to support decision-making processes for the identification of the ‘preferable’ transformation scenario. This evaluation framework is applied, through the use of the TOPSIS multi-criteria evaluation method, in the case study of the ex-Italsider area in Bagnoli district (Naples, Italy), an industrial steel plant decommissioned in the early 1990s
Heritage Community Resilience for sustainable and resilient human settlements
No full textThe value of cultural heritage for sustainable and resilient human settlements is recognized in international documents and agendas. These documents underline the importance of protecting and enhancing the identity values of the places to contribute both to the creation of a heritage community and to the strengthening of the community resilience.
Small and medium-sized cities are today subjected to global and local challenges. The contribution of cultural heritage in facing these challenges is limited by its state of abandonment and degradation, the lack of investments in recovery and maintenance, the lack of often emigrated skills. The recovery of the built environment can be strategy aimed at preserving and enhancing the cultural heritage and improving the quality of life and at the same time privileged action for community involvement and for implementing new cooperative management models.
The paper investigates the relationship between the increase in regeneration actions on cultural heritage, conducted by activating a network of multi-level partnerships, and the increase in social cohesion, awareness, innovation, reaction and recovery capacity. The research hypothesizes heritage community resilience indicators, i.e. performance indicators capable of gathering the link between the increase in relations between the local actors and the quality of urban regeneration actions
Strategie per il riuso adattivo del Monastero di Sant’Agostino a Vicopelago
No full textThe theme of the reuse of disused religious cultural heritage has been the focus of attention in the national and international debate for years. The vastness and importance of this heritage, a connotation element of the landscape and of the life of the communities born around it, highlights with extreme urgency the open question on its future and therefore on the identification of strategies consistent with the complex of values of which it is bearer. The different approaches adopted in cases of reuse already carried out showed the strengths and weaknesses of the implemented processes and drew attention to the need to identify shared guiding criteria for the development of an exportable but also adaptable methodology to different contexts. The summer school “New scenarios for disused monastic heritages. Lucca cases between monastic memories and Puccini's legacy” represented an opportunity for fruitful interdisciplinary debate to deepen the theme of the reuse of religious cultural heritage from both a theoretical-cognitive and practical-operational perspective. Starting from the study of some good practices, the experimentation on the case study of the former Monastery of Sant’Agostino in Vicopelago (Lucca) led to the development of various project proposals that were presented to local stakeholders, as the first outcome of the studies conducted and as the first step in the structure conversion process.Il tema del riuso del patrimonio culturale religioso dismesso è da anni al centro dell’attenzione nel dibattito nazionale ed internazionale. La vastità e l’importanza di tale patrimonio, elemento connotante del paesaggio e della vita delle comunità nate attorno ad esso, evidenzia con estrema urgenza la questione aperta sul suo futuro e quindi sull’individuazione di strategie coerenti con il complesso di valori di cui è portatore. Il diverso approccio adottato in casi di riuso già realizzati ha mostrato punti di forza e fragilità dei processi implementati e ha richiamato l’attenzione sulla necessità di individuare dei criteri-guida condivisi per l’elaborazione di una metodologia esportabile ma anche adattabile ai diversi contesti. La summer school “Nuovi scenari per patrimoni monastici dismessi. Casi lucchesi tra memorie monastiche ed eredità pucciniana” ha rappresentato un’occasione di proficuo dibattito interdisciplinare per approfondire il tema del riuso del patrimonio culturale religioso da una prospettiva sia teorico-conoscitiva che pratico-operativa. Partendo dallo studio di alcune buone pratiche, la sperimentazione sul caso studio dell’ex Monastero di Sant’Agostino a Vicopelago (Lucca) ha portato all’elaborazione di diverse proposte progettuali che sono state presentate agli stakeholder locali, come primo esito degli studi condotti e come primo step del processo di riconversione della struttura
Stimulating Circular Urban Regeneration through Cultural and Sustainable Communities: The Proposal for a Green Blue Youth Vision 2030.
No full textIn the European context, culture has a key role in sustainable development strategies. Within the framework of the UNESCO Culture 2030 Agenda, new cultural approaches support sustainable policies by affecting individual and collective behavior towards interpreting sustainability as a ‘common good’. This paper aims to define innovative sustainability strategies from the perspectives of younger generations, in order to understand the transformative potential of new cultural approaches to sustainability and common goods in achieving the Agenda 2030 goals. The ‘Green Blue Youth Vision 2030’ approach analyses the different multidimensional components of possible innovative cultural alternatives by emphasizing the potential of the proposals from young people. The initial results consist of defining “Green Blue Youth Vision 2030” proposals collected during the co-design roundtables, and analyzing key results from a survey on the direct and potential beneficiaries of the Green Blue Days project in Southern Italy. In conclusion, the research allows for preliminary reflections on the definition, by the new generations, of a new way of understanding sustainability as a common good, oriented towards overcoming cultural, economic, environmental, and social conflicts to stimulate circular urban regeneration in Southern Italy
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