ABSTRACT
Today, the restoration of these places without people raises extremely complex challenges, where social and technical factors are intertwined with the economic ones. For implementing an effective process of reutilization, in fact, it appears necessary to carry out projects that innovate while preserve not only the built network but also the relationships among people, trying to reach a balanced compromise between the transformations required by the current needs of the population and the cultural duty of the conservation of historic buildings. The interpretation of the tangible values associated with the ancient buildings appears to be strongly woven to the intangible values that have accompanied the history of places. So, aiming at the conservation of the architecture requires to dealing with issues of urban anthropology, ethnography and with a “slow” history of communities rather than with an événementielle one (Teti 2004; Tarpino 2012). At the same time, it is necessary to identify the elements that can generate new dynamics of development in the local micro-contexts without neglecting the importance of non-monetized benefits that are generated by the cultural fruition of the historic heritage. This means to intend the intervention as a necessity within the logic of saving scarce resources, such as the territorial ones are. There is to work, therefore, on the complex identification of the range of specific functions that can simultaneously guarantee the conservation of the ancient goods and the starting up of a process of durable local economic development.
