Paesaggi elettrici e nuove economie: valori, patrimoni, responsabilità sociali e management

A fronte di imponenti operazioni di ristrutturazione industriale -in particolare di ripensamento di tutto il processo economico di produzione dell'energia- che coinvolgono molte aree dell'Occidente (e non solo), una questione emergente è quella dei patrimoni "elettrici" dismessi e della riqualificazione dei contesti su cui sono localizzati. Il percorso della valorizzazione –di fatto consolidato disciplinarmente- per questo comparto offre suggestioni di ricerca e di dibattito con alcuni elementi di innovazione: 1) una reinterpretazione della teoria del valore e delle sue componenti classiche; 2) la sinergia tra interventi architettonici e interventi economici strutturali; 3) l'urgenza di operazioni di censimento, di costruzione di conoscenza attraverso banche dati e nuovi flussi di informazioni; 4) il control management dei processi. Il contributo ha l'intento di ripercorrere lo stato dell'arte sul tema e di rileggerlo alla luce dei nuovi approcci di valorizzazione uniti ad un'ottica ambientale e di economia circolare. Fanno da supporto a tale analisi critica, la lettura di casi nazionali italiani (a partire dalle operazioni condotte da Enel) ed internazionali, dove si stanno già generando esternalità, intangibile e benefici attesi oltre che plusvalori economici

La Cittadella di Alessandria: valori e strategie in gioco nel processo di sdemanializzazione

Le tematiche inerenti la valorizzazione dei patrimoni demaniali, della loro gestione e riequilibrio finanziario tramite un\u2019attenta politica di dismissioni e di crescita di redditivit\ue0 attraverso la concessione o la locazione a terzi, sono andate ampliandosi, ponendo crescente attenzione agli aspetti della finanza pubblica. Si \ue8 avviato un radicale cambiamento di prospettiva nella valutazione del ruolo della gestione patrimoniale da parte degli Enti Locali: il patrimonio non \ue8 pi\uf9 considerato in una visione statica ma dinamica, cio\ue8 posto come risorsa strategica nella gestione finanziaria complessiva, di cui gli Enti pubblici si avvalgono per garantire le proprie finalit\ue0 di erogazione dei servizi e massimizzazione del benessere per la collettivit\ue0. Il patrimonio della Difesa, trasferito all\u2019Agenzia del Demanio, offre importanti opportunit\ue0 di sviluppo: non solo immobili da immettere sul mercato per ritorni monetari utili a sanare le casse degli Enti Pubblici (strategia che non ha condotto ai risultati sperati), ma occasioni per avviare processi di valorizzazione che interessano sia la fabbrica, sia l\u2019ambito territoriale circostante. In tal senso, il caso della Cittadella di Alessandria diviene paradigmatico per operare ragionamenti e simulare applicazioni di tecniche decisionali (SWOT, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Analytic Network Process, ecc.) sul processo e sugli strumenti che possono fare da \u201caccompagnamento\u201d nel delineare lo scenario funzionale pi\uf9 compatibile

Resilience in Action: The Bottom Up! Architecture Festival in Turin

This article describes the practice of co-evolutionary and transformative resilience through a case study conducted in Turin (Italy). According to a broad definition, resilience includes performing actions of urban design and planning, innovating community-based project procedures, and creating positive financial outcomes that are assessable because of the monitoring process of short- and long-term outcomes and impacts. Through the Turin-based case of the Bottom Up! Architecture Festival, this article observes processes in which resilience is in action in metropolitan areas, feeding urban projects and practices of selforganization of the social and financial actors involved. By applying the definition of community projects, the festival manages to take territorial problems and crises (the pandemic, inequality, etc.) and view them as an opportunity to change the system, recommending integrated action on the natural, cultural, financial, and social capital, innovating practices and holding society and institutions more accountable. The transformation of spaces relies on collaborations between social and institutional actors, operating spatially concentrated transformations in the city of Turin, and using flexible governance tools based on co-planning and crowdfunding for project design and financing

Demand Analysis Models to Support Cultural Tourism Strategy: Application of Conjoint Analysis in North Sardinia (Italy)

This study focuses on an inner area in Northern Sardinia (Italy) currently experiencing depopula-tion and considered 'fragile' due to its lack of typical regional summer tourism. However, this area boasts an intriguing cultural heritage, currently under-recognized and undervalued. The aim of this contribution is to apply to this territory the Conjoint Analysis methodology, which examines target demand and constructs scenarios. Drawing from the regional plan for tourism, an explora-tory phase was employed to support future strategies in cultural and touristic enhancement by stakeholders. In this regard, the experiment, involving a survey of 600 interviews among inhabi-tants (301) and tourists (299), aims to: 1) estimate the economic value of the cultural heritage and tourist consumption preferences using WTP, 2) raise awareness among decision-makers about the varied value perceptions of the territory and its heritage by its users, 3) craft a knowledge fra-mework of this territory to diversification of the tourism offer. The study showcases innovative elements both in terms of internal technical aspects and strategic approach. The collection of pre-ferences, based on a set of 9 itinerary cards, highlights undervalued aspects related to intangible components, community well-being, sustainable consumption habits, sustainable mobility, and microeconomies not strictly tied to traditional tourism type

The Crowdmapping Mirafiori Sud experience (Torino, Italy): an educational methodology through a collaborative and inclusive process

The CrowdMapping Mirafiori Sud (CMMS) pilot project, carried out by the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy), involved the academic world (students and professors), the Mirafiori Onlus Foundation, the local administration and the community in a participatory and inclusive process. The district is a large area of Turin characterized by a high average age of its inhabitants and a high percentage of foreigners. The aim of the project is to identify and report, through the use of ICT, the obstacles that prevent residents - the most vulnerable categories - from using public space. In the start-up phase, it was not born as a PBL approach, but during the application the PBL was considered a development perspective in the educational experience starting from the students' proposals and the exchange of their skills, in the specific declination of the PBL approach known as community engaged learning. For students, this version of PBL has proven to be strategic in the implementation phases of the project, in particular in the mapping of interested parties and the data set and connections between networks of actors

SiForAge Social Innovation Reseach Prize 2014

This prize aims to give recognition to projects that undertake research into social innovation in active and healthy ageing and that make significant contributions to ager communities, their families, and caregivers in order to promote an inclusive society. The three research projects proposals which have won are the Crowdmapping Mirafiori Sud project, the Active aging and intergenerational solidarity: an example in the University context project and the Enred@te project

Identifying Spatial Relationships between Built Heritage Resources and Short-Term Rentals before the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exploratory Perspectives on Sustainability Issues

Built heritage resources (BHRs) are multidimensional assets that need to be conceived under a sustainability and circular economy framework. Whereas it is essential that their conservation, management, and enjoyment are sustainable, it is also necessary that the environmental, cultural, and socio-economic contexts in which they are integrated are sustainable too. Like other amenities, BHRs can improve the quality of the urban environment and generate externalities; additionally, they may influence sectors such as real estate, hospitality, and tourism. In this framework, this contribution aims to identify spatial relationships occurring between BHRs and short-term rentals (STRs), i.e., a recent economic phenomenon facilitated by platforms such as Airbnb. Through the application of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis techniques and taking Turin (Italy) as a case study, this article provides evidence that spatial correlation patterns between BHRs and STRs exist, and that the areas most affected by STRs are the residential neighborhoods located in the proximity of the historic center of the city. Relations with other sets of socio-economic variables are highlighted too, and conclusions suggest that future studies are essential not only to monitor sustainability issues and reflect on new housing models and sustainable uses of buildings, but also to understand the evolution of the phenomenon in light of the pandemic Covid-19. they may influence sectors such as real estate, hospitality, and tourism. In this framework, this contribution aims to identify spatial relationships occurring between BHRs and short-term rentals (STRs), i.e., a recent economic phenomenon facilitated by platforms such as Airbnb. Through the application of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis techniques and taking Turin (Italy) as a case study, this article provides evidence that spatial correlation patterns between BHRs and STRs exist, and that the areas most aected by STRs are the residential neighborhoods located in the proximity of the historic center of the city. Relations with other sets of socio-economic variables are highlighted too, and conclusions suggest that future studies are essential not only to monitor sustainability issues and reflect on new housing models and sustainable uses of buildings, but also to understand the evolution of the phenomenon in light of the pandemic Covid-19

How to monitor and evaluate quality in adaptive heritage reuse projects from a well-being perspective: a proposal for a dashboard model of indicators to support promoters

Among the research discourse concerning cultural heritage in the post-COVID-19 phase, a greater awareness of the social value of heritage and its repercussions on collective well-being has emerged. This attention requires overcoming the top-down approach of public policies in favour of public–private partnership tools that are more effective at capturing the multidimensional components of value generated by cultural heritage. However, it is necessary to refine the tools used to evaluate and guide actions towards a perspective capable of integrating the conservation needs of the asset with collective well-being. This contribution investigates the calls for funding and public notices on the architectural heritage in Italy in the period from 2014–2020. In this field, the Third Sector is assuming a crucial role, showing specific attention to the issue of well-being consistent with its social goals. The calls were collected and structured in a database, with a specific focus on the calls aimed at adaptive heritage reuse that were categorised and analysed. Finally, the research proposed an assessment method based on a dashboard model of indicators to evaluate the quality of reuse interventions. The selected indicators consider both the production of plus-value in terms of improving well-being, and the need to bring the interventions on the existing architecture to a procedural circularity in line with the theoretical orientations of restoration

The Ethical and Responsibility Components in Environmental Challenges: Elements of Connection between Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Impact Assessment

The contribution constitutes a first exploratory outcome of an ongoing research by the Author on the issues of ethics and responsibility in investment processes, starting from the assumptions of the CSR approach. It makes a critical reinterpretation of it in the light of the ongoing debates and provides a specific reading key. In this sense, the contributions of other approaches and disciplines, in particular those of social investing and social impact axis, have highlighted some issues that constitute operational steps certainly at the center of future research developments and in particular linked to current environmental challenges: 1) the creation of value, 2) the stakeholders and corporate social citizenship, 3) the shared accountability, starting from the Social Report and Participatory Budget models. Specific paragraphs are dedicated to these research issues, which are intended to highlight both the impact assessment models and the technical steps yet to be explored. As a conclusion of the reasoning and to signal potential future developments, some application areas are cited (e.g. those of urban and peri-urban regeneration processes), in which the investment assessment and impact assessment models have experimented with innovation factors, linked to the aspects of the ethics and social responsibility among stakeholders