Italian Re-Place team interviews Sabrina Lucatelli, Director of “Riabitare l’Italia”
The adhesion of “Riabitare l’Italia” as End User to the Horizon Re-Place Project becomes a fruitful opportunity to deepen knowledge of the political and cultural project of the Association through the words of its Director, Sabrina Lucatelli. Expert in development policies in areas with low demographics, member of the evaluation team of the Department for Cohesion of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, vice-President of the OECD Group for territorial policies of rural areas, former coordinator of the National Strategy for Internal Areas (SNAI), the Director of “Riabitare l’Italia” – interviewed by Camilla Rumi, member of the Italian Re-Place team – focuses first of all on the specificity of the Association’s positioning at a national level.
A unique positioning that derives from a triple activity which takes shape in the publication of books with a highly informative nature, the result of research-action operations in the territories; in close alliances with universities, public bodies and companies; in innovative co-planning with the contexts, starting from projects with a great cultural content. Hence the birth of the shepherding school, capable of experimenting with a new way of training, or of the mountain hub, aimed at welcoming new inhabitants of the Subequana Valley.
From the testimony of Sabrina Lucatelli also emerges a progressive growth of the associative commitment towards the international trend thanks to an Erasmus project with France, useful to deepen the methods of active participation within ordinary policies, in addition to the collaboration with the Re-Place Project. A collaboration that has its roots first and foremost in the shared belief of the structural complexity of our country and the need to increase public awareness of the environmental, economic and cultural value of polycentrism.
For the relaunch of small local communities – concludes the Director of “Riabitare l’Italia” – as well as implementing new and more coherent narratives, two elements are fundamental: a bottom-up impetus to rebuild the sense of community, creating alliances, and a higher and more driven political action, called to recognize the role played by these territories within our country, giving them back a voice and assigning an active role in the construction of the design of Italy.
