Edificato storico e comunità locali: la partecipazione come strategia di conservazione preventiva

The culture of built heritage prevention, theoretically consolidated, experiences some difficulties when transferred to the practice. The major weaknesses arise within built historic systems: if local communities don’t recognize their cultural value, in fact, the effectiveness of the processes of long-term preservation is not guaranteed in any way. The direct involvement of communities in conservation processes, from early stages, can foster learning processes capable of diffusing the disposition to care, and change the social demand on conservation, management and use of built heritage, enabling the dissemination of preventive strategies.