A Creative Living Lab for the Adaptive Reuse of the Morticelli Church: The SSMOLL Project

Maria Cerreta, Alessia Elefante and Ludovica La Rocca
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Maria Cerreta: Department of Architecture (DiARC), Federico II University of Naples, 80134 Naples, Italy
Alessia Elefante: Urban Regeneration and Social Innovations, Blam, 84133 Salerno, Italy
Ludovica La Rocca: Department of Architecture (DiARC), Federico II University of Naples, 80134 Naples, Italy

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 24, 1-20

Abstract: The international debate on the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage sites consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals has become increasingly important in the implementation of circular economy models for urban policies. The new values that characterize cultural assets, considered the result of a collaborative process, can enhance both manufactured and human capital, and provide the basis for a system of relationships that binds them. Furthermore, the values of historical artistic assets produced by community-based regeneration processes are particularly relevant when they characterize abandoned commons and cult buildings, to which communities attribute an identity and symbolic value. Starting from the definition of the concept of complex social value, we propose a methodological process that combines approaches and techniques typical of deliberative evaluations and collaborative decision-making processes. The aim is to identify the complex value chains generated by adaptive reuse, in which intrinsic values can play a driving role in the regeneration strategies of discarded cultural heritage. The experimentation, tested with the project “San Sebastiano del Monte dei Morti Living Lab” (SSMOLL), activates a creative and cultural Living Lab in the former Morticelli church, in the historic center of Salerno, in southern Italy. The reuse project is part of a more comprehensive process of social innovation and culture-led urban regeneration triggered in Salerno starting from SSMOLL. The partial results of the process show how a co-exploration phase has characterized the cultural characteristic of the living lab and how the co-evaluation of the individual activities orient the possible reuse scenarios. Finally, the results provide a first analysis of the relationship types activated.

Keywords: cultural heritage; adaptive reuse; urban regeneration; community-based approach; culture-driven innovation; collaborative decision-making process; co-evaluation; intrinsic value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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