Five fields of action: Research, built heritage, entrepreneurship, school, cultures

In front of the structural social, environmental and economic problems, a wide range of projects emerges in the Old Town of Taranto. These projects gather the work of local and higher-level actors, associations and private entities, to rethink the present and the future of the city. This contribution argues that, despite the number of initiatives, many of them are lacking the preconditions to root and grow. Therefore, after interpreting the key findings of the project-mapping, this contribution identifies five areas of possible intervention, which can create a frame of possibilities for current and future projects by dialoguing with each other. These are objects in the boundary of seemingly incompatible areas of interest and actions, and precisely because of their ‘lateral’ position, they constitute spaces of possibility and interference.