REVEALING THE EVERYDAY LANDSCAPE: INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS FOR HERITAGE EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS. THE SCAR (SCHOOL ACTIVATES RESOURCES) PROJECT

The Italian Plan for Cultural Heritage Education identifies in the training related to cultural heritage the possibility of contributing to the cultural and social improvement of the life of every person, also developing, through a conscious use, the sense of belonging to one or more cultures and territory.Given these potentialities, the document reveals a lack of responses to training needs and underlines how the launch of educational courses that put school and university in synergy in the places of culture are among the priorities to be achieved in the period 2016-2018. The Italian Digital School Plan also stresses the importance of a renewed educational approach and effort to promote heritage and provides that all students are offered courses on the digital management of Cultural Heritage. The interest in the heritage, after all, is identified by European policies as part of the right of every citizen to freely participate in cultural life.The ScAR (School Activates Resources) project, aims to respond to these requests with an experimental and methodologically innovative action, set in a context rich in critical issues and on a fragile and ScARcely recognized heritage such as that of a part of the Milanese urban periphery. The aim of the project is to promote the shared knowledge of the latent urban patrimony and increase, especially in young people, the sense of belonging to the neighbourhoods, the sense of active citizenship and the responsibility in the common good’s care. Another priority is to provide schools with tools for educational innovation, inclusion, and technological update, to limit early school leaving.</p

Urban Transition and the Return of Neighbourhood Planning. Questioning the Proximity Syndrome and the 15-Minute City

European policies acknowledge cities&rsquo; major roles in building greener and just urban habitats. When rethinking cities&rsquo; spatial organisation, the call is for creating better liveability conditions at the level closest to citizens. In this frame, research into the impacts of COVID-19 has led to a revival of neighbourhood planning and the 15-Minute City has been proposed as a successful model for cities&rsquo; recoveries in the name of regained proximity to collective facilities. This article questions the long-lasting neighbourhood image that the 15-Minute City refers to, by exploring recent experiences that renewed its application. We begin with a literature review, and then develop an evidence-based approach to a deeper analysis of policy design and implementation focusing on the Italian city of Milano. Discussion and conclusions highlight critical issues and potentials of the 15-Minute City. If the threat is that of a simplified and rhetorical use of this idea, its ability to gather plural actions under an appealing flagship can be a powerful driver for urban regeneration policies. However, being more than just a reproducible spatial model, the 15-Minute City needs to be handled as a complex planning device, whose effective implementation depends on the specific characteristics of the urban environments it applies to and on the strong intertwining of different policy fields and tools

Dati informativi aperti per l'attivazione dei contesti locali

Open data to reactivate local contexts _ Also reconsidering some salient findings from the first step of this research (see the e-book Attivare risorse latenti, and the “atlas” of experiences documented inside), this paper aims to carry out a rapid survey about the possible role and potential of open data and cultural heritage information in the policies of local development and activation. Building “nebulas” of cultural heritage information – making them dense, recognizable and evident while they are often scattered, thin and hidden – is the characteristic of many initiatives aimed to territorial valorization and promotion through the opportunities offered by the implementation of open data sets. On the one hand, this is typically the mission of some institutional bodies formally dedicated to collect data and make them available for open public consultation. On the other hand, the integration of existing – but sectoral, partial and fragmentary – open data sets is the specific objective of further research programs and initiatives. About such “nebulas” of open data and information, sometimes the problem is not to integrate but to construct them, above all about those places that are so rich of cultural heritage resources but so poor – because of their peripheral and marginal conditions – of information able to document and communicate them effectively. According to this idea, the “information void” about the village of Corte Sant’Andrea (Senna Lodigiana, Lodi) that was selected as a case study and “target” of this research, has been filled with a number of open data by the “Mapathon For Cultural Heritage” carried out on March 30th, 2017 in Milan, in an instant data input and collaborative mapping event supported by Wikimedia Italia. Making information available and accessible is the first step towards the re-emergence and re-appropriation of places, and the open data density makes people aware about their space/time consistency and depth. Volunteered geographic information e collaborative mapping initiatives – when applied to “fragile” territories to rediscover, safeguard and valorize – may be reconnected with the experiences of ecomuseums. These projects are interesting not to reaffirm defensive territorial “identities”, but in their openness and generative potential: in fact, they are dense territory representations that are expression of active parts of local societies under transformation which explore the opportunities for the future local development in the discover and discussion of tangible and intangible elements of cultural landscape. Therefore, it is not an accident that when ecomuseums address urban territorial fields they are above all related to peripheral contexts. And in the big cities this kind of gaze and aim dialogues with their administrative sub-articulations – their internal organization by “municipi” or “quartieri” (boroughs) – in search for developing urban policies rooted in the local context. It is also intertwined with the forms of planning tools, i.e., with the structure and syntax of the urban plan at the local scale. For instance, urban planning contents are articulated (referring to the recent cases of Bologna and Milan) according to the different “Situazioni” (urban situations, or environments) and “Nuclei di identità locale” (nuclei of local identity). They are significant expressions that reveal the attempt to interpret the local space/time geography of places. This may represent a common ground for formal institutional planning initiatives and bottom-up self-promoted actions founded also on VGI, collaborative mapping and open data setting

Progetto urbanistico e città esistente: gli strumenti discreti della regolazione

Fra struttura e progetto le regole non sono un accessorio; leggere le tecniche, non solo le teorie; disporre delle fonti è una condizione per interpretare e innovare le pratiche; l'urbanistica è un sapere cumulativo che ha bisogno di una storia della progettazione. Secondo queste principali ipotesi, il libro indaga le forme del progetto urbanistico applicato alla città esistente, focalizzando l'attenzione sugli strumenti regolativi attivati per incidere sulla qualità spaziale. Tre sono i percorsi di ricerca e altrettante le parti nelle quali il volume è organizzato. Nella prima sono analizzati in dettaglio i meccanismi tecnici di otto strumenti urbanistici elaborati tra il 1980 e il 2000, allo scopo di fare emergere e discutere alcune rilevanti acquisizioni. La seconda parte è dedicata ai manuali, luoghi canonici della codificazione, e si sofferma su alcune delle più interessanti forme evolutive recenti. L'ultima parte riconsidera, in una prospettiva di lungo periodo, lo spessore dei procedimenti tecnici e al contempo la natura continuamente sperimentale del sapere urbanistico e delle sue pratiche. L'utilità di questa chiave interpretativa viene esemplificata in relazione a due esperienze contemporanee: il nuovo piano regolatore di Roma e i programmi integrati d'intervento di Milano. Un'ampia galleria finale di immagini commentate riattraversa i temi affrontati dal libro in un ulteriore itinerario di lettura

Il concorso Porte della città

Fa parte del volume a cura di Sandra Bonfiglioli, Marco Mareggi, Roberto Zedda, "Città di Bolzano. Patto della mobilità e Piano dei tempi e degli orari: una prospettiva europea"