Ragusa Ibla_San Paolo neighborhood: regenerative cultural common

A brief description of the "problem" and its background Abandonment is a widespread XX century phenomenon in Italy. In the case of S. Paolo district abandonment is linked to 1) the fragility of its geographical position; 2) the contraction of economic growth (stagnation of private investments); 3) the lack of "modern" urban services, defining the quality of citizenship in contemporary European society required by the evolution of the models of social life and use of the city. These three factors are interlinked and active as circular causes on the present condition of abandonment of S. Paolo, and the proposal tackles the challenge with an intervention working on the three factors together. The method: innovate to invent something that changes the rules We want to determine the project of Ragusa Ibla within San Paolo district understood as an Evolutionary city. We propose a method that, first, clarifies the issue and the processes that have determined it at different scales. Then, it allows us to intervene on the three circular and non-linear causes,- according to our vision of complexity,- that determine it. Our method also acts on the development practices that are typical today of a way implemented in similar cases, which could manipulate the identity of a historical place without producing a sustainable project in the long-term spam, and a collective but only private space (planning gentrification). Due to our methodology, urban authorities are invited to test innovative solutions to adapt, to manage demographic trends, to attract relevant economic activities for sustainable urban development from one side, and to counterbalance the effects of demographic decline. An outline of the principal results, outcomes, findings and lessons The evolution of the models of social life and the use of the city determined the abandonment of the S.Paolo neighbourhood. To face that issue, intervening on the three causes, the project defines, through a transversal and non-linear scientific method, the integration between a structured system of public projects, already funded but not put into a system, and a participatory process approach to provide an alternative to the city's mode of production, bringing new life to urban planning based on the principles of equality, inclusion and civility. 1) To counteract fragility, we indicate a process of mapping through open-source data (Metropolitan Cartography) to spatialize a risk map of the S. Paolo district through the analysis of the geography of its territory. 2) To counteract the economic stagnation, the project defines a new role of public action through a collaborative urban regeneration. The Municipality is a partner of a Community Foundation*, fostering integrated accessibility between the two historical centres to bring the citizens "inhabitants" back to the San Paolo district. 3) To contrast the lack of "modern" urban services and products, we define approaches able to activate new productive processes related to food and wine and related products. The process will be leveraging on heritage and culture as means for inclusion (spatial and social), prosperity (reviving tradition through innovation), productivity (creating integrated access to the territorial productive system through the physical and virtual access to via San Paolo) and sustainability (environmental inclusion and protection). The identified solutions to the above-mentioned challenge are therefore in the form of a meta-project that sets the framework and starts implementing a collaborative and integrated regenerative process of the S.Paolo neighbourhood while developing the organizational environment for its linkage to the wider territory. * Community Foundation is a non-profit organization, which brings together subjects, which represent a local community intending to improve the quality of life of the community itself.