Resilient techniques and methods to support a resilient lifecycle of villages and neighborhoods

The paper focuses on planning and Heritage lifecycle documentation and management as main activities to support the sustainable planning of villages and neighborhoods and to improve their resilience. With examples from the last twenty years of progresses, we will seek lessons to better use the next wave of 3D innovation that is coming, to overcome the current critical moment linked to the COVID19 pandemic, to develop resilient systems and techniques able to support the next generation of visual information tools from reality capture (3D scanning, photogrammetry and more) to reality computing (3D modeling and data management), and reality creation (VR, AR & 3D printing). Focus is on villages and neighborhoods as part of the so-called ‘Widespread Built Cultural Heritage’ (WBCH) which constitutes a large part of European and Mediterranean Built Heritage and bears great cultural and economic interest. A discussion on the regeneration of Rural Landscapes through Cultural and Natural Heritage was premised, letting notice that if, on the one hand, the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened rural areas, posing challenges, on the other hand it has shown the potential for a ‘rural renaissance’, where rural areas would assume a central role in developing sustainable and resilient communities.