Protocol for Territorial Research

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The project action is structured through the action-research method in macro-actions, creating a circular movement of field action and theoretical re-elaboration, in a constant drive toward learning and experimentation.

>> Being in the Territory

Continuous presence allows for a perspective of greater attention to the diverse nuances offered by the context. Relationships with the space and with the inhabitants are preparatory for identifying the necessary tools for understanding daily life and the distinctive features of the dialogue between theory and practice.

>> Weaving Networks

The "fieldwork" establishes connections with internal relational dynamics (local network), enabling the orientation of activities. Developing a bond allows for intercepting the potential to connect the local context to other external actors in an incremental vision of resources, of disseminating the project beyond the specific area, to foster new potential projects and strengthen existing ones in creating constructive dialogue between bodies - private and public - and citizens.

>> Creating Memory

Activating memories and producing new ones enables the creation of a learning process that stimulates different interpretative scales by evaluating the pillars on which the community is based: punctual/individual (interviews); group/specific contexts (identification of relational dynamics); community/territory (archival research and perceptual hypotheses).

>> Conducting Research

Multidisciplinary observation of the context amplifies the potential to intercept connections across different dimensions, developing new possibilities for disseminating experiences; experimenting with different modes of co-producing knowledge, communication, and training at school, university, and community levels - local and supra-local.

>> Intercepting Transformative Imaginaries

By intercepting needs and necessities, and simultaneously prompting emotional resonance, the actions create the prerequisites for initiating a propositional reasoning toward the future, aimed at local activation, the creation of new everyday policies, the promotion of skills, and enhancing the capabilities and resources of inhabitants and local actors.