Inner areas’ cultural, architectural and landscape heritage: study, enhancement and fruition. Potential driver for sustainable territorial development?

The processes of gradual abandonment of inner areas, that have been triggered since the second half of the 20th century, generated problems that have been the subject of a wide-ranging scientific and multidisciplinary debate aimed at developing focused political and planning strategies. In 2013 at national level the SNAI, Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas, and later specific actions activated by the Territorial Cohesion Agency, was founded to aim the reactivation of areas defined as “remote with the intention of mitigating territorial marginalization. This article introduces an international and interdisciplinary Seminar based to discuss some concrete experiences. The debate was attended both by PhD Students, Professors of the PhD board and by four Professors from foreign Universities whose presentations of best practices in an international perspective have provided important contributions to the debate. Linking the considerations proposed during the Seminar with principles and objectives of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), the emerging themes of innovation and green were the subject of specific attention within the programmed interventions charged to the professors of the Board of the PhD in Architecture, Arts and Planning.