Enhancement and re-use of the rural heritage

In the last decades European rural landscape has been interested by deep changes: infrastructures, logistic and commercial centers have consumed agricultural territory. In the meanwhile, technologic innovation has led to intensive soils exploitation, causing the degradation of large areas, the abandonment of many buildings and generally the impoverishment of the rural landscape ecological and cultural values. According to the EU goals about rural development sustainability and about historical landscapes requalification through “place-based” policies, the technological environmental design experiences executed in the project “Recovery and enhancement of the GAL Oglio Po rural heritage” focus on demonstrating how it could be possible to reuse abandoned rural heritage as an incentive to the innovation and cultural social-economic growth of the local communities. This is possible through the reuse proposals oriented to the multifunctionality and to the realization of fruition well-structured systems, and through the implementation of multiscaled management models intended to develop the network integrated enhancement of the territorial heritage components