INDIGENO: L'IMPATTO DEI CENTRI CULTURALI NEI PROCESSI DI ATTIVAZIONE TERRITORIALE E RIGENERAZIONE URBANA E RURALE

<< Background >>The promoting organizations worked together to transform the marginal areas into places of exchange and learning that are accessible, usable and functionally differentiated, in order to create a synergistic relationship between the environment and the social, cultural and economic fabric, favoring the involvement of local communities in the processes of urban regeneration aimed at enhancing the socio-cultural dynamics of participatory growth and improving the quality of life of local economies and experimenting\disseminating inclusive and aggregative methodologies for resident communities, capable of developing a sense of identity and belonging to places.<< Objectives >>GENERAL OBJECTIVE:to support a development model based on collaborative processes and social innovation in marginal areas that needed cultural-based regeneration interventions.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:- to promote the involvement of local communities in regeneration processes aimed at strengthening the socio-cultural dynamics of participatory growth and at improving the quality of life and local economies;- to experiment\disseminate inclusive and aggregative methodologies for residents, capable of developing a sense of identity\belonging to places.In particular:1) Awareness of cultural identity, thanks to artistic production activities and territorial activation;2) Development of new neighborhood relations and structuring of a new participatory methodology through learning and training workshops for operators3) creation of a toolkit based on the definition of a shared methodology for territorial activation4) Greater attractiveness and cultural production making INDIGENO a symbol of urban, rural and contemporary culture-oriented development thanks to the European dimension of the project. << Implementation >>3 Transnational Steering Groups:-Kick Off Meeting 03-04/03/2022 Turin: organization of the activities-Interim Meeting 25-26/08/2022 Courel: monitoring of activities-Final Meeting 06/04/2023 Salerno: final evaluation3 Learning Workshops:-07/11/2022 Turin. Speakers: Ilda Curti. Participants: 14-25/08/2022 Courel. Speakers: Marcos García, Cinthia Mendonça, Encarna Lago, Noemi Vázquez. Participants: 11-06/04/2023 Salerno. Speaker: Marco Navarra, Stefano Bifulco, Alessia Elefante, Ludovica La Rocca. Participants: 9.2 Multiplier Events:-23/05/2022 at Salone Internazionale del Libro Torino (Turin). Speakers: Annarita Masullo, Luca Spadon, Giangavino Pazzola, Matteo Bidini, Girolamo Lucania, Ottavia Arenella, Elisa Morat. Participants: 50 (no. of signatures: 22). Satisfaction questionnaires: 15 (It turned out that expectations were met)-24/08/2022 Courel. Speaker: Marcos García, Branca Novoneyra, Uxío Novo Rey. Participants: 14.Workshops: speakers presented best practices and succesfull case-studies about urban regeneration and territorial activation. Multiplier Events: speakers presented results, activities and exchanged skills. Further activities within project: artshows (Indigeno photo exhibition, art murales)<< Results >>no. 4 memberships collected for GAESC Network;no. 3 International Steering Meetings;no. 3 Workshops realised;no. 2 Multiplier Events (one was held in Courel, one in Turin. According to the project the Multiplier Events in Turin should have been two but a single one was held on 23/05/2022. The Torino Youth Centre had the opportunity to present the project at Salone del Libro 2022. The importance of the event and the caliber of the location and audience prompted the lead partner to focus resources and energy on a single event of which we have videos, photos, and signatures of the participants (there are 22, representing the 22 people who followed the event from start to finish: in reality the participants were about 50 but many left early and\or without signing the appropriate document). In addition, participants were also given a survey about the project.);no. 1 website created;no. 1 Toolkit realised;no. 1 Guideline realised;no. 3 communities involved;involvement of an average of 180 people per project activities in the territories involved;no. 40 people involved in the care of the spaces.