Rural Making Lab: Social, Cultural And Sustainable Innovation For The Inner Areas Of Calabria. Tactic for training, education and regenerative actions in co-territories.

In the last two decades, the inner areas in Italy have shown a tendency to experiment new local development practices through projects oriented to the participation and knowledge transfer on the topics of innovation and process technologies. In this context fits the Rural Making Lab1, the tactic promoted by the Pensando Meridiano association, which has become the experimental phase of research within the PhD thesis entitled “Inner Areas, innovative processes for emerging communities. Strategies and tactics of Rural Making in ITI called Presila Catanzarese, Reventino-Savuto and Area Grecanica”. The main objective is the adoption of sustainability approaches to activate projects of social, cultural, productive and environmental innovation for the inner areas of Calabria as the field of “transfer of knowledge and practices” for the activation of new emerging communities, sustainable micro-economics chains through the co-production of innovative goods and services, with reference to the local development drivers proposed by the National Inner Areas Strategy. The tactic is activated through four territorial laboratories and collaborative networks, organized in two phases: work-education, for the information and co-planning on the themes of sustainable culture, and work-project for actions of “self-construction” with the use of advanced technologies and digital processes. The capacity of Rural Making Lab to implement “training and education actions” in the case of experimentation on the Calabrian inner areas, produces a multiplier regenerative effect for the landscapes and “temporary” communities that move between urban areas and inner territories, according to the new paradigm based on the theoretical and scientific contribution argued in the research (commuting). The contribute is inserted in the publication that collects the papers of the authors participating in the different thematic sessions of the SBE19 Scilla Conference.