Collaborative Decision-Making Processes for Cultural Heritage Enhancement: The Play ReCH Platform

These days, cultural heritage is one of the topics at the center of the urban sustainability agenda. Current economic and urbanization trends place significant pressure on urban resources, systems, and infrastructures and demand for novel approaches in governing, financing, and monitoring urban performances with particular attention to abandoned, unused, or underutilized cultural heritage, defined “waste heritage.” In this perspective, cities are laboratories where innovative and collaborative approaches can be tested, and culture-led processes can be implemented consistent with circular economy principles. In order to structure and activating collaborative decision-making processes for regeneration and adaptive transformation of cultural heritage, gamification assumes a central role. The chapter analyzes the interaction among gamification and collaborative decision-making processes relevant to support the enhancement of cultural heritage and describes the Play ReCH (Reuse Cultural Heritage) platform, winner of the 2019 Welfare Che Impresa call, activated with the purpose to promote a cultural creative enterprise and include cooperation and innovation in cultural heritage regeneration processes. Play ReCH allows rethinking the management model of cultural heritage reuse through gamification processes in combining technology and reality, involving city users within creative processes

Multi‑parametric MRI in the diagnosis and scoring of gastrointestinal acute graft‑versus‑host disease

Objectives Acute gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease (GI-aGVHD) is a severe complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Diagnosis relies on clinical, endoscopic, and pathological investigations. Our purpose is to assess the value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis, staging, and prediction of GI-aGVHD-related mortality. Methods Twenty-one hematological patients who underwent MRI for clinical suspicion of acute GI-GVHD were retrospectively selected. Three independent radiologists, blinded to the clinical findings, reanalyzed MRI images. The GI tract was evaluated from stomach to rectum by analyzing fifteen MRI signs suggestive of intestinal and peritoneal inflammation. All selected patients underwent colonoscopy with biopsies. Disease severity was determined on the basis of clinical criteria, identifying 4 stages of increasing severity. Disease-related mortality was also assessed. Results The diagnosis of GI-aGVHD was histologically confirmed with biopsy in 13 patients (61.9%). Using 6 major signs (diagnostic score), MRI showed 84.6% sensitivity and 100% specificity in identifying GI-aGVHD (AUC = 0.962; 95% confidence interval 0.891–1). The proximal, middle, and distal ileum were the segments most frequently affected by the disease (84.6%). Using all 15 signs of inflammation (severity score), MRI showed 100% sensitivity and 90% specificity for 1-month related mortality. No correlation with the clinical score was found. Conclusion MRI has proved to be an effective tool for diagnosing and scoring GI-aGVHD, with a high prognostic value. If larger studies will confirm these results, MRI could partly replace endoscopy, thus becoming the primary diagnostic tool for GI-aGVHD, being more complete, less invasive, and more easily repeatable. Key Points • We have developed a new promising MRI diagnostic score for GI-aGVHD with a sensitivity of 84.6% and specificity of 100%; results are to be confirmed by larger multicentric studies. • This MRI diagnostic score is based on the six MRI signs most frequently associated with GI-aGVHD: small-bowel inflammatory involvement, bowel wall stratification on T2-w images, wall stratification on post-contrast T1-w images, ascites, and edema of retroperitoneal fat and declivous soft tissues. • A broader MRI severity score based on 15 MRI signs showed no correlation with clinical staging but high prognostic value (100% sensitivity, 90% specificity for 1-month related mortality); these results also need to be confirmed by larger studies

La valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale abbandonato: approcci e strumenti per una strategia di rete collaborativa

Questo studio propone un processo multi-metodologico strutturato durante un progetto di ricerca-azione sviluppato nell’ambito di un accordo scientifico tra il Dipartimento di Architettura dell’Università di Na-poli Federico II, il Comune di Salerno e l’associazione Blam. L’obiettivo principale è l’individuazione di una strategia per la valorizzazione e il riuso sostenibile del patrimonio culturale religioso dismesso in una prospettiva di rete per il centro storico della città di Salerno. Il processo proposto ha implementato un approccio multimetodo che integra l’elicitazione delle preferenze, il coinvolgimento degli stakeholder e dei cittadini, l’elaborazione di indicatori specifici per la valutazione delle potenzialità dei beni culturali e l’analisi multi criteriale per l’individuazione delle priorità di intervento per la valorizzazione del patrimonio ecclesiastico chiuso, abbandonato o in disuso

Urban Regeneration Processes and Social Impact: A Literature Review to Explore the Role of Evaluation

From urban regeneration to social regeneration up to culture-led regeneration, the concept of urban regeneration evolves from the idea of the physical transformation of cities to a more complex vision of changing able to improve the inhabitants’ quality of life. At the same time, the social dimension of the recognised impacts, from a factor juxtaposed to the regenerative processes, becomes central to build new models of “impact economy” with long-term sustainable effects. In this change of perspective, the driver is the repositioning of culture, the community's centrality and involvement, and the reuse of abandoned cultural heritage spaces. In urban regeneration processes, evaluation has thus assumed a decisive role in guiding strategic choices, empowering the communities involved, supporting decision-makers and attracting new funding. Starting from the keywords “urban regeneration” and “social impact”, the paper integrates the literature review with bibliometric maps through the VOSviewer tool to investigate the role of evaluation in a broader framework to feed the contemporary debate on the impacts of urban regeneration. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG

A Creative Living Lab for the Adaptive Reuse of the Morticelli Church: The SSMOLL Project

The international debate on the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage sites consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals has become increasingly important in the implementation of circular economy models for urban policies. The new values that characterize cultural assets, considered the result of a collaborative process, can enhance both manufactured and human capital, and provide the basis for a system of relationships that binds them. Furthermore, the values of historical artistic assets produced by community-based regeneration processes are particularly relevant when they characterize abandoned commons and cult buildings, to which communities attribute an identity and symbolic value. Starting from the definition of the concept of complex social value, we propose a methodological process that combines approaches and techniques typical of deliberative evaluations and collaborative decision-making processes. The aim is to identify the complex value chains generated by adaptive reuse, in which intrinsic values can play a driving role in the regeneration strategies of discarded cultural heritage. The experimentation, tested with the project “San Sebastiano del Monte dei Morti Living Lab” (SSMOLL), activates a creative and cultural Living Lab in the former Morticelli church, in the historic center of Salerno, in southern Italy. The reuse project is part of a more comprehensive process of social innovation and culture-led urban regeneration triggered in Salerno starting from SSMOLL. The partial results of the process show how a co-exploration phase has characterized the cultural characteristic of the living lab and how the co-evaluation of the individual activities orient the possible reuse scenarios. Finally, the results provide a first analysis of the relationship types activated

A Decision Aid and Social Impact Co-Assessment Approach for Urban Regeneration Processes

The consolidation of community urban regeneration processes makes it particularly necessary to investigate a collaborative dimension of social impact measurement in the perspective of greater social sustainability. Social impact assessment is increasingly configured as an enabling process both in the communities and in the institutions involved, capable of orienting the strategies of public institutions in support of urban regeneration culture and community-based. In this context, within the research agreement between the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) of the Ministry of Culture (MiC) and the IUAV University, a methodological approach has been structured to co-evaluate the transformative impacts produced by culture-based urban regeneration projects supported by MiC. The co-evaluation process provided opportunities for reflection on how institutions could innovate and improve their strategies toward greater economic and social sustainability

Impact Assessment for Culture-Based Regeneration Projects: A Methodological Proposal of Ex-post Co-evaluation

The emergence and diffusion of social impact measurement for assessing culture-led regeneration projects underline the need for suitable approaches and tools to support public institutions and local administrations to guide their implementations. The paper introduces a methodological proposal for social impact assessment, structured and tested within the framework of the research agreement between the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC) and the IUAV University of Venice, with the purpose to evaluate the impacts generated by the projects implemented in Italy through the public calls “Creative Living Lab” and “PrendiParte”, initiatives born in 2018 to finance and support urban regeneration projects through cultural and creative activities

Triggering Active Communities for Cultural Creative Cities: The “Hack the City” Play ReCH Mission in the Salerno Historic Centre (Italy)

According to the current European scenario, cultural, creative, and community-led policies play an increasingly important role in influencing local resources, systems, and infrastructures management and demand a novel approach in governing, financing, and monitoring urban regeneration processes. Therefore, cities become contexts where cultural and creative practices can be implemented, integrating social cohesion principles based on communities, shared values, and collaborative decision-making approaches, with particular attention to enhancing cultural heritage, mainly unused or underutilised. The purpose of this research is to explore how the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor (CCCM) methodological framework, developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, can be integrated at the local scale to assess the impacts of urban regeneration processes in an interactive and dynamic way, through the data emerging from the monitoring of urban regeneration experiences activated with the communities. The paper describes the “Play ReCH (Re-use Cultural Heritage)” approach, that promotes a process of collaboration, gamification, and innovation in cultural heritage reuse, as an opportunity to test how cultural, creative, and community-led urban strategies can support the enhancement of heritage generating enabling environments and culturally vibrant contexts. The Play ReCH approach and the “Hack the City Salerno” mission, activated in the Salerno historic centre (Italy), open the reflection on some relevant issues related to how citizens become makers of cultural and creative cities’ policies, and contribute to evaluating and monitoring their implementation at diverse urban scales. The Play ReCH mission underlines how new evidence suggests declining the CCCM conceptual framework and related urban policies assessment, co-defining suitable community-based indicators