A Design Agenda for Rural Vulnerable Territories

The concentration of people and resources in the metropolitan areas, in Italy as in Europe, provokes the weakness, the abandon and the decay of the rural territories. We are developing design theories and methodologies for intervene in these places introducing architectural elements which generate a strong upgrading in terms of centrality, accessibility, appeal, comfort, cultural identity. A new architecture, especially oriented to public facilities and open spaces, can change the course of the natural decay, and offer, to investors, inhabitants and stakeholders, a better perspective of a more sustainable and human friendly development. In the last years, territorial fragilities and vulnerabilities became the central challenge and the common ground for many programs and actions which involve any physical transformation. In Italy, the ground is collapsing, in many sloping maritime and mountain areas, and modern infrastructures, such as highways and railways, are facing processes of obsolescence and decay, asking intervention of maintenance but also demanding the elaboration of a new way of thinking the relation with the territories, the countryside, the landscape.

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978-1-944214-31-9