Cultural Heritage, Sustainability and Resilience: From Risk Management to Territorial Development

Born out of the collaboration and dialogue between the projects SIRIUS - Management Strategies for cultural heritage at risk (active in the PNRR PE05 CHANGES - Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for the Next-Gen Sustainable Society) and RESTART - Resilience and Territorial Development, Heritage at Risk and its Sageguard (financed within the framework of the University initiative Alma CaReS - Climate Change, Resilience, Sustainability), this research day will address the theme of territorial strategies and synergies aimed at the prediction, prevention and management of natural and anthropic risks impacting on cultural heritage. The event is part of a larger research and collaboration initiative that has been active for several years in the Ravenna area and that has been promoted by the Department of Cultural Heritage. This initiative aims, in a medium-long term perspective, at the development of a shared methodology for the management of territorial risks that may compromise the conservation of cultural heritage. Special attention will also be paid to the theme of active citizenship, with actions intended to stimulate a shared reflection on how the deprivation of historical and cultural evidence has direct repercussions on the territory and the community, resulting in the disappearance of identity values and social cohesion. But even more, this research day, intends to emphasise how cultural heritage can assume a value of great impact in the dissemination of the 'culture of risk'.