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Sustainability and Territories: Shaping a Livable Future

Sustainability and Territories: Shaping a Livable Future

Join our online discussion on May 19, 2025, as we delve into an increasingly critical question: how can we reconcile development with the preservation of our territories, embracing full sustainability? The future we aspire to inhabit necessitates a fundamental rethinking of our relationship with the environment, local communities, and the resources around us.

Sustainability and Territories: Shaping a Livable Future

Program

Moderated by Ermes Tuon of Progetto Re-Cycle, we will explore diverse perspectives with contributions from:

  • Antonella Grana of Aida Marketing&Formazione, who will lead a reflection on the future of Tourism and Territory in mountain regions. We will analyze the challenges and opportunities for tourism that values without compromising, seeking a balance between the dynamism of development and the quality of life for local communities. Can we avoid a “Venice model” in the mountains and counter depopulation? The answer may lie in thoughtful and participatory planning.
  • Chiara Pegge of CP Real Estate, who will introduce us to the Sustainable Real Estate Market, illustrating new approaches to conscious and environmentally respectful living. We will see how the growing focus on energy efficiency, sustainable materials, and harmony with the landscape is redefining the standards of the real estate sector.
  • Alessandro Pellegrini, Vice President of Alliance in the Alps, who will speak about the importance of Protecting and Enhancing Local Heritage through the safeguarding of territorial identity. The experience of the Budoia Charter will show us how collaboration among Alpine municipalities can serve as a model for addressing the impacts of climate change and promoting prevention and adaptation.
  • Finally, Roberto Ervas, architect and human ecologist at Studio Associato Ecinque, will offer a vision that goes Beyond the Map, considering the territory as a living and complex entity, often suffering from human-induced imbalances. He will invite us to embrace eco-human and bio-social models, focusing on a multi-systemic and integrated approach.

Sustainability and Territories: Shaping a Livable Future is part of the ASviS Festival of Sustainable Development.

This event is an invitation to discuss how to build a future where prosperity goes hand in hand with the health of the planet and the well-being of its communities. We look forward to welcoming you online on May 19th at 6:00 PM.

To register, please fill out the form at this link: https://forms.gle/K44fUVYfeusUrbCn9

The talk will be in Italian

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Vintage skin – reinvented materials

Vintage skin – reinvented materials by Kiara Baldan is an article taken from the Quaderno 12 that we are re-proposing. Both the article and the Quaderno talk about recycling, work, and passion for manual activities. Kiara, who I heard from recently, has definitely made her passion her job. Compared to a few years ago – pre-Covid – her reference markets are slowly changing. Her markets are linked not only to holidays but also to tourist flows. Since last summer, a shift has been taking shape – related to the type of tourists interested in handcrafted objects – from seaside resorts to mountain resorts. Given Progetto Re-Cycle’s interest in more sustainable tourism, this change will certainly be the object of our attention.

But let us get back to the Quaderno

The three stories – including Vintage skin reinvented materials –are written by people who create beautiful objects or, better still, works of art. Works that have a story behind them and equally beautiful people with their own philosophy of life and work. In two cases, the “plan B” of life and work has become the “plan A”, the open-air markets have become a real job.  In another story the professional life of the author is different, and the markets are the place where she can highlight her passion for a philosophy of life that contains a great sensitivity, or rather love, for her place of origin.

The common and most important aspects of this Quaderno are:

1. The search for recycled materials. For example, Giuseppe tells us about hemp sheets bought in Paris, Claudia about her grandmother’s buttons, vintage fabrics and leather, Kiara about leather and eco-leather that she will decorate.

2. The great skill and manual ability of working the materials to transform them into a work of art

3. Knowing how to use the potential of the network and social media. An eye on the past, of course, but with the familiarity of modern tools to communicate effectively and widely.

Vintage skin – reinvented materials

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To download the entire Quaderno 12 Artigiani di Strada (Street Artisans) click here

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Buildings  and sustainable tourism

Buildings and sustainable tourism, a slightly modified title for this article that I am re-proposing – taken from Quaderno 11 – and that traces many stages of our history. From Norcia to the earthquake in Central Italy in 2016, from the mapping of trails – for inclusive and sustainable tourism – to Local Guides and the world of Google. And, last but not least, the difference that I always highlight between the identity and soul of places.

The technology for mapping has changed a bit but basically everything is still the same.

Buildings  and sustainable tourism

One thing, however, no longer exists, even if the idea was more than good. The start-up Storie – mentioned in the article – for the construction of sustainable buildings no longer exists. Let’s say that having opened in February 2019 was not a good omen

However, returning to Progetto Re-Cycle, the activities for sustainable tourism continue and, once again, I am inviting our readers to let us know new trails. Here is the link to #accessiblelife

Buildings  and sustainable tourism

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Grass skiing

A sustainable alternative to explore for mountain territories?

Grass skiing

I must confess that I had never heard of it, nor had I ever seen anything. Since I realized my dream of a house in the mountains, I began to see aspects of the mountain territory that I did not know and I also “stumbled” upon a stage of the Grass Skiing World Cup in Tambre, in Alpago, province of Belluno.

Grass skiing

As you already know – at least I hope so! – as an association we have been dealing with the enhancement of territories and sustainable tourism for a long time; therefore, this kind of skiing intrigued me a lot.

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Further reading:

Is grass skiing the answer to a sport threatened by climate change?

The sixth R. Rethinking, redesign

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But do places have a soul?

But do places have a soul? Introduction to Quaderno18 edited by il prato publishing house
I have been asking myself this question quite often recently, I even wrote about it some time ago, when I had already made a distinction between identity and soul.

But do places have a soul

My answer to the question is YES, without a doubt on my part. But really, I’m thinking about this matter over and over. I think there is a crucial distinction between identity and soul if we want to develop a real sustainable tourism. So, I will try to answer myself. Again.

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Identity or soul

Here I go back to my initial question and introduce the identity variable. Nowadays it is quite common to link the word identity to places. In my opinion this word is divisive, we are looking for the characteristics that differentiate one place from another rather than what they have in common. A phenomenon that I find worrying since I have the clear impression – walking around the villages – that they are all becoming the same, with similar promotions and with a strong emphasis on food and wine and typical products. Don’t get me wrong, typical products are fine but when, to push a product and a territory, tourist operators invent “the way (cammino) of the prosecco hills” you can easily understand that it is not a pilgrims’ way […]


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Dead end track

Dead end track is the intro article to Quaderno 15 “Tourism between revenge and regeneration” available in May from this link

Dead end track

Dead end track. No, don’t worry, even if the title sounds a bit gloomy, in this Quaderno we’re going to talk about tracks that come back to life.

For this publication we are moving to France where we will be “hosted” at La Recyclerie, a place that I had the pleasure of knowing personally and that has something in common with Progetto Re-Cycle. If you look closely at their logo you will see that it looks a lot like ours.

La Recyclerie represents the first track of this story. When I visited the place in March 2022, I was impressed by the fact that this structure had been developed along a track and an abandoned station. La Recyclerie, as Fabrizia Greta Silvestri tells us, was born, initially as a farm, along the old railway walls of Paris in the 18th Arrondissement. Talking about a farm in Paris is a daydream for me.

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Dead end track

Revenge tourism

Fabio Casilli talks about this type of “crowded” tourism in his article on Revenge Tourism.

It is an aspect of tourism that has emerged after Covid.  A spasmodic desire to travel resulting on overcrowded cities leading to a tourist offer that risks to become chaotic and of low quality. An offer that has had to deal, both in France and in Italy, with the lack of personnel. The senior staff, because of Covid, resigned and moved to different jobs. In France the real estate market – linked to the 2024 Olympics – has absorbed part of the personnel in the tourism sector. The junior staff that has been employed, still shows lack of skills on field.

Again, the question arises “where is tourism going?” […]

Destination management

When I talk about tourism, I prefer to do it with Destination Management which involves the management of a territory and its enhancement with the support of operators who know closely the place in which they operate

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Tourism and sustainability at “Tea at 5”

We had already dealt with the subject during the 2020 ASviS Festival. In this new edition of our Tea at  5 we will talk, once again,  about tourism and sustainability and we will do it above all with  local administrators and experts of  the sectors

We will range from widespread hospitality to the “cross and delight” of the relaunch of the territories after Covid.

What can public administrators do? Are there tourist possibilities for the smaller and lesser known municipalities of the Italian province? Is the PNRR useful, or not at all? Is it difficult to be managed by those who have few human resources in their staff?

How important can widespread hospitality and Paese Albergo (a specific kind of widespread hospitality)  be for the smallest municipalities?

We will answer all these questions starting from May 24 for 6 episodes. We will always be online on our YouTube channel (subscribe to receive notifications) and on our FB page (follow us)

Tourism and sustainability at "Tea at 5"

Tourism and sustainability at “Tea at 5″will be in Italian, for the detailed program click here

As always, Antonella Grana, president of Progetto Re-Cycle, will coordinate the activities and talk with our guests.

Do you have any topic to propose? Write to us! info@progettorecycle.org. Don’t worry about language! We have already hosted Tea in English.

In the meantime, come and visit us at 5.30 pm on our YouTube channel and on our FB page

PS Small anticipation … We are planning a “Tea at 5”  in person!

Tourism and sustainability at "Tea at 5"
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