Biodiversity, enabling technologies and resilient tactics for urban and rural scenarios in transition in the inner areas of Calabria

The relationship between global and local in development policies, with reference to its material and immaterial dimension, is useful to measure the effectiveness and impact of interventions to transform the inhabited and built environment. Over the years, moving according to an approach to sustainability has meant promoting, from an environmental and ecological point of view, “models of active development”, involving all scales of the territory and all organizations and policies. A useful way to govern with innovation the processes, programmes and projects of safeguarding, conservation and production, with the participation of communities “in transition”. Declining “the quality of the environment as a value for the landscape and resilience for the communities” of urban areas and inner territories, means aspiring to a new resilient geography, able to trace itself in the quality and competitiveness of the territories, in order to build a productive and stable future from the point of view of both physical safety (resilience) and environmental and social security. It is evident how this new perspective of sustainability, declined on European programmes and UN commitments, can cross territorial and urban policies at local level (such as the National and Regional Strategy for Inner Areas) and can recognize the themes of social and environmental innovation in the cities and in the inner territories, adding them to the culture of cohesion and making policies with the opening of “living labs” able to be the engine and the network of all the actions of change and all the protagonists of these changes. This creative atmosphere can thus become a project of new resilient geography (economic, environmental and social), also in the construction of the agenda on sustainable development at the local level, but it must reach a critical mass in order to be realized andrealized relying on a community of epistemé (strategic and creative guidance) and a community of practices (daily management and marketing). This trajectory is that adopted by the Rural Making Lab, the operational and design tactics of the association Pensando Meridiano in Reggio Calabria (Italy) to promote experimental actions for innovation, sustainability, enabling technologies as innovative processes of development for communities in the pilot areas of the Regional Strategy of Inner Areas in Calabria.