Abstract
Over the last decade, the notion of cultural heritage has been the subject of a highly articulated debate that has strongly modified and broadened its meaning; it no longer refers only to architectural-monumental assets, but to all those goods and artefacts whose underlying value - as sanctioned by the 2011 Faro Convention, ratified by Italy in 2020 - refers to everyday practices, traditions and knowledge, to their intrinsic readiness for renewal and reuse, and to the recognition of a common and community value. This new way of understanding heritage as a resource belonging to territories and communities calls for new cognitive and interpretative methods. Such an approach promotes a reflection on design for territories, on cultural productions and on the many material and immaterial aspects that characterise the valorisation and communication project; new critical scenarios and design actions open up, capable of combining conservative instances, interested in historical value, with transformative ones, interested in its renewal and re-signification. In this perspective, it is therefore up to the disciplines of the project to take on the ongoing changes, to renew their methodologies and tools - conceptual and technical - and to search for engaging methods and techniques appropriate to the interpretation and transformation of the heritage. Through the analysis of virtuous case studies, mainly referring to the valorisation of UNESCO sites, the article intends to outline methodological guidelines aimed at the conception of inclusion processes and cultural re-appropriation of diffused heritage, which can have socio-cultural and economic-productive consequences in the territories.
Presenters
Ambra Di BernardiStudent, PhD student, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Palermo, Italy Serena Del Puglia
Student, Architecture, Dipartimento di Architettura di Palermo, Italy
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2024 Special Focus—Intersectionality: Museums, Inclusion, and SDGs
KEYWORDS
Heritage, Community, Unesco sites, Intangible value, Design for the territory
