Since the post-war period Italy has been invested by an epochal phenomenon
of redistribution of population, economies and urban materials from highlands
to lowlands, from the hinterland to the coastline. Moreover, since the 1970s,
the development of the Mediterranean coastal territories assumed a character
strongly oriented to tourism too, altering the balance sedimented through the
years in these areas, converting many slow landscapes into intermittent territories
triggered by specifc seasons and monocultural activities. This proposal intends
to refect on the possible development weaving the destinies of such realities, in
the awareness that the reactivation of these territorial systems could be led by the
rediscovery of connections and emergencies often forgotten, silent traces able
to give back values to these tired landscapes. Working through interconnected
territorial structures means to consider their networks and their tangible and
intangible capital, and this is an indispensable exercise in order to rethink our
country and some of its reiterated development models. Starting with a few days
of interdisciplinary seminars that took place in between Politecnico di Torino and
Politecnico di Milano, and the organisation of a workshop on-site, Solanas was
identifed as an emblematic case, a valley able to explore these issues. Located
in the south of Sardinia, annexed to the territory of Sinnai due to its ancient
transhumance role, today it remains detached from the main inhabited centres,
suffering strong isolation from welfare systems during the low season, and the
exploitation of landscape resources because of mere tourist purposes during
the high season. This condition of seasonal contraction, unfortunately rarely
accompanied by a medium-long term planning, can be retraced along many
other coastal areas of Mediterranean countries, becoming a specifc fragility of
our reality to take into consideration