The contribution aims at describing some results of the Summer School “Sicilia coast to coast: camminare nei territori vulnerabili” promoted by the Laboratorio del Cammino in June/Semptember 2018. The training activity involved an inter-university group of 40 students and young researchers who walked from Mazara del Vallo (Trapani) to Palermo for studying the vulnerability of Sicilian territory. Walking allowed participants to play the role of privileged observers of three phenomena, illegal construction activity, forest fires and earthquakes, interpreted as three different declinations (by genealogy, impact, community affected and implications in urban planning) of the concept of vulnerability in Sicily. These were investigated thanks to a knowledge produced during the walk through the use of all the senses, which derived from being there, with the body, in the space, in that precise moment. Thus, the bottom-up approach of walking has allowed participants to produce a new and pertinent narrative of the links and disconnections between the community and the territory, investigating complex tensions and dualisms, and intercepting positive experiences of care and management of natural and collective resources.

Sicilia coast to coast: in cammino tra contraddizioni, resistenze e battaglie per la legalità

L. Lazzarini
2020-01-01

Abstract

The contribution aims at describing some results of the Summer School “Sicilia coast to coast: camminare nei territori vulnerabili” promoted by the Laboratorio del Cammino in June/Semptember 2018. The training activity involved an inter-university group of 40 students and young researchers who walked from Mazara del Vallo (Trapani) to Palermo for studying the vulnerability of Sicilian territory. Walking allowed participants to play the role of privileged observers of three phenomena, illegal construction activity, forest fires and earthquakes, interpreted as three different declinations (by genealogy, impact, community affected and implications in urban planning) of the concept of vulnerability in Sicily. These were investigated thanks to a knowledge produced during the walk through the use of all the senses, which derived from being there, with the body, in the space, in that precise moment. Thus, the bottom-up approach of walking has allowed participants to produce a new and pertinent narrative of the links and disconnections between the community and the territory, investigating complex tensions and dualisms, and intercepting positive experiences of care and management of natural and collective resources.
2020
Spazi e corpi in movimento. Fare urbanistica in cammino
978-88-945059-1-7
Sicily, vulnerability, trash, informal settlements
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