UN PERCORSO METODOLOGICO MULTIDISCIPLINARE PER RIPENSARE L’AREA INTERNA “MONTAGNA MATERANA”

Abstract

The research focuses on the issue of Italian Inner Areas. The methodological approach has been oriented to define an intervention strategy based on transdisciplinary and cross-scale knowledge regarding the case study context. Starting from the Montagna Materana, the pilot inner area of Basilicata, the contribution identifies and describes the developed methodological process. Different investigation, interpretation and evaluation tools are integrated at the aim of understanding the territory as a complex cultural landscape, both immaterial and material. An open, incremental, place-based and culture-led strategy is defined studying morphology, characteristic elements of the landscape, territorial dynamics and socio-cultural issues. Such an approach is capable of generating new values and multiple relationships between local communities and different parties of the territory. The proposed scenarios identify ways and forms of landscape regeneration and local development, structured within a network capable of enhancing the infinite territorial potential from a cultural perspective.