Shortly before Christmas, in a tiny little town, high up in the mountains where there was a very strong wind, a Santa Claus’ helper was thinking about how he could cheer  up the tiny little town. This small, small town is called Bolognola, lately it has been a bit shaken up but now it’s pretty good! Thinking and thinking again and again,  today and  tomorrow, he decided to call Santa Claus. He called him in a small town, a bit bigger than Bolognola, in the plains. There was no wind there but some fog indeed. Sometimes it snows and in the plain 10 cm of snow are so many! Last year it  snowed just before Christmas. You have to know  that the inhabitants are a bit clumsy (they are not used to snow) and to move around they  needed a 4X4 sleigh! The helper and Santa Claus wrote to each other via chat (and yes… even Santa Claus has become...

I have heard so many times the word magic during my stays in Marche and Umbria, magic meaning a peculiar characteristic, uniqueness of the Sibillini territory. This peculiarity was highlighted during Concita De Gregorio’s interviews to the “Women of the Sibillini” too. Most of the women’s answers on the meaning of “home” and “future” after the earthquake, were connected in an essential way to the territory women belong to. I, as an external “character” and not involved in that specific place, started thinking about this topic. I asked  myself “what would I tell a tourist to convince him/her to visit these places?”                 I thought about it for a short time but. As I tend to base my  judgments on parameters as much objective as possible, the word magic has begun to be...

How did we get from Veneto to the Sibillini? And then back again? Are there any common aspects that connect those territories? For sure there are stories of people and territories Visually absolutely nothing. The two regions (to be precise three: Veneto, Marche and Umbria) are different, take a look at these photos. The Dolomiti, although mountains, certainly do not resemble more ancient and gentle Sibillini. Our lagoon, our rivers are quite another thing … And yet, there are common things. These things are the stories, stories related to the territory and connected  to people.   The first time we arrived at the very center of the earthquake area we were in Norcia, December 10, 2016. I can remember that date very well as from that date the stories of Progetto Re-Cycle and those of Local Guides (volunteers who update the maps in Google Maps) have started interacting. The LG...

Progetto Re-Building, l’attività di mapping per la creazione di una mappa condivisa di foto geolocalizzate delle aree colpite dal sisma, prosegue e si arricchisce di nuove foto della zona di Arquata del Tronto. Re-Building assume sempre più l’aspetto di “cassaforte della memoria”. Per molti luoghi l’unica cosa che potrà rimanere sarà la memoria: non è possibile ricostruire     La ricostruzione non è però solo una scelta architettonica ma riguarda anche l’identità di un luogo. Spiegare qualcosa di immateriale è sempre molto difficile, solo andando nei posti, solo vedendo il rischio concreto di desertificazione umana si può comprendere cosa significhi il senso di appartenenza a un luogo e l’identificarsi con esso. Per chiarire ecco alcuni passaggi del Q6 [… ] Nella fase iniziale Re-Building era partito con l’obiettivo di contribuire alla ricostruzione anche in termini...