RIFLESSIONI METAPROGETTUALI PER IL RECUPERO E LA VALORIZZAZIONE DI BORGHI E AREE RURALI A RISCHIO SPOPOLAMENTO IN EPOCA POST-PANDEMICA

In recent years, small villages and rural areas have often been identified as alternatives to urban life, places for discontinuous use and for temporary pleasure of visitors and tourists. Nevertheless, the current era marked by the pandemic shock requires a radical shift of perspective. In fact, due to the recent health crisis, people all over the world have surrendered to the limits imposed by national policies to guarantee public health; the governing entities strongly controlled citizens movements and activities, preventing them from frequenting public spaces; the pandemic has revealed the ineffectiveness of mono-functional tourism economies, showing the fragility of places totally subject to these. In this context of “re-foundation”, the theme of small villages and rural areas has generated a new cultural debate between architects and urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and communities, who agree in affirming the need to experiment with new contemporary lifestyle models. The research aims to offer a new paradigm to the programs for the recovery and enhancement of small villages, in order to guide any regeneration interventions on architecture, territory and local community. The method and the verification tool here proposed for the activation of compatible regenerative programs are validated on the case study of the village of Castelnuovo Cilento, in Italy. In this way it is possible to imagine new stimulating strategies, that would transform the depopulation of the villages in a real possibility of active life.