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The contribution constitutes an introduction to one of the sections of the conference, which highlights the need to put in place, on the issues in question - the depopulation of inland areas - a pre-eminent pedagogical-formative action that helps communities to reverse their gaze by considering small towns a resource.

This paper describes the INTERREG Italy-Malta 1/16 project, of which the Department of Architecture was the beneficiary. The proposal, in the disciplinary field of restoration, aims to create action-learning to be applied in the historic quarters of Palermo and Valletta by implementing an integrated, totally, interdisciplinary working method; it embraces the degree of physical accessibility (with the design of architectural interventions and the provision of technological-IT assistance tools for a smoother passage), and a cultural one, which is expressed via the 'networking' of virtual communication for areas that cannot be easily reached and in parallel educational action that works on overcoming mental barriers. The project will lead to actions and products embracing architecture and technological innovation, constantly verified with associations for the disabled and cultural associations active in the local area, in order to best achieve democratic, conscious and shared objectives. The areas of intervention unfold along itineraries in Palermo among the churches of the Vucciria and in La Valletta around monuments representative of its identity, specifically its churches and the area around the old slaughter-house of Biċċerija or the Auberge d'Italie.

Introduction to session 2.1,Strategies and Perspectives for The Re-launch of Abandoned Small Towns ; Introduzione alla sessione 2.1,Strategie e prospettive per il rilancio dei centri abbandonati │

The present contribution focuses on the strategies carried out to hinder depopulation and to facilitate the recovery of the historical city centers in Sicily in the last fifty years. In particular, the essay analyses if the strategies and the initiatives fostered in this field had been respectful of the physical characteristics of these small towns. Furthermore, the present study intends to assess if the improvement of the "quality of life" has been taken into consideration among the strategies carried out to contrast depopulation.The scarce efficacy of policies and strategies over the last fifty years, which emerges from this analyses, is partially due to the endemic inability of politicians and local communities in looking at these sites as cultural and economic resources. Scarce entrepreneurial capacities, and, on the other side, a strong victim complex which characterize Sicilian people are two of the many reasons for the failure of such strategies. The political autonomy of the Region has been influenced by this attitude of the community and it has not be seen, over time, as an opportunity for a political, economic and cultural growth of the island. To worsen such a pessimistic frame, the inability in coordinating programs and strategies for urban and territorial planning have to be underlined.Paradoxically, the delay in the development of strategies and policies for urban planning, involved a quite good preservation of historical city centers, mainly in the inner areas of the region. For this reason, smart and coordinated strategies for the management of urban and territorial transformations, in a cultural context which has now been changing, could carry out significant results for a better future.Centri abbandonati in Sicilia: Strategie e iniziative per il recupero e la valorizzazioneIl presente contributo intende tracciare un bilancio sulle strategie poste in essere, negli ultimi cinquant'anni, per contrastare il fenomeno dello spopolamento dei centri storici siciliani –specie quelli ricadenti nelle aree ...

The present reflection aims to investigate the critical Ruskin of society, making a comparison between two historical moments of the time in which it acts and the contemporary era, both phases of transition. Today Ruskin's thought expresses an extraordinary modernity for the new concept of heritage as a common good, just as art according to the scholar was for everyone because for all it was necessary; for the resumption of a craftsmanship compared to the standardization of the processes, characterizing the twentieth century, against which Ruskin has always fought. The action of the civil war of which the work of Ruskin and the SPAB was first-born and brilliant testimony seems today, after a certain stasis, to have taken a breath in the quantity of initiatives undertaken by associations and committees in defense of one or the another monument. The danger of politicizable populism, which could lurk in this hypertrophied activism, can find in the disciplinary firmness of the restoration, now established, but that professes the ethics of Ruskin, a guide for a new way of understanding interventions on preexistences.

La volontà di rendere sempre più incisivo e professionalizzante l'insegnamento del Restauro nei corsi di laurea in Architettura ha mosso chi scrive alla volontà di stabilire, tramite una convenzione, un rapporto stabile con la Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Palermo, città in cui si opera, da attuare con i corsi di Laboratorio di Restauro dei Monumenti nel Corso di Laurea LM-4 in Architettura di Palermo o nella redazione di tesi di laurea. Attraverso l'esame dei due primi casi trattati congiuntamente (monastero di S. Caterina d'Alessandria, caserma dei Carabinieri Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, nel complesso di S. Giacomo dei Militari) si delineano le opportunità e le criticità di tali rapporti, comunque indispensabili per un restauro che miri effettivamente alla conservazione sia dei valori che della materialità, assicurando al contempo la sostenibilità del procedimento processo. ; The desire to make the Teaching of Restoration in the degree courses in Architecture more professional and incisive, has led the writer to establish, by means of an agreement, a stable relationship with the Superintendence for Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Palermo, city in which one operates. This agreement was implemented in the Restoration Workshops of the Monuments of the Laurea LM- 4 in Course of Architecture in Palermo and in the preparation of the thesis. Through the analysis of the two cases investigated (Monastery of St. Caterina d' Alessandria, Barracks of the Carabinieri Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, located in the complex of the S. Giacomo dei Militari) it is specified the opportunities and problems of such relationships, however necessary for a restoration that truly aspires to preserve both the values and the materiality of the heritage, while at the same time protecting the sustainability of the method used.