e advent of Web 2.0 has profoundly changed the relationships between information, production, and consumption, transforming the way in which individuals and communities interact and creating new opportunities to learn, discover, and disseminate information. At the same time, several small villages of the Italian hinterland, characterized by structural weaknesses, are developing into virtuous, sustainable, and responsible communities, innovating and potentially changing their destiny – as shown by empirical evidence and scienti³c literature. Introducing the case of Aielli (AQ) – a municipality of 1.437 inhabitants and member of the Borghi Autentici d’Italia (BAI) Association, that has been home of the street art, music, performance, and astronomy festival “Borgo Universo” since 2017 – the paper aims to highlight how these small villages can o±er themselves to a particular form of leisure tourism, valorising their places while conveying their history and traditions in “vigorous” (Lynch, 1964) virtual images through the world wide web, creating new visions, images, and experiences that look at sustainability in its economic, social, cultural, and environmental dimensions
L’avvento del Web 2.0 ha mutato profondamente i rapporti tra informazione, produzione e consumo, trasformando il modo stesso attraverso il quale gli individui e le comunità interagiscono e generando nuove opportunità per conoscere, scoprire e diffondere informazioni. Parallelamente, l’evidenza empirica e la letteratura scientifica di riferimento mostrano come numerosi piccoli borghi dell’entroterra italiano, caratterizzati da profonde criticità, si stiano trasformando in comunità virtuose, sostenibili e responsabili, innovando e cambiando potenzialmente il proprio destino. Il presente lavoro, attraverso il caso di Aielli (AQ), comune di 1.437 abitanti membro dell’Associazione Borghi Autentici d’Italia (BAI) – sede dal 2017 del Festival di street art, musica, performance e astronomia “Borgo Universo” – intende evidenziare come, attraverso il World Wide Web, questi piccoli borghi possano proporsi ad una particolare forma di turismo138 leisure, valorizzando i luoghi e veicolando al contempo la propria storia e le proprie tradizioni, proponendo un’immagine virtuale “vigorosa” (Lynch, 1964) di sé stessi, costruendo al contempo nuove visioni, immagini ed esperienze nell’ottica di una sostenibilità economica, sociale, culturale e ambientale.
I piccoli borghi d’Italia tra restanza e innovazione: il caso del comune di Aielli
Sara Nocco
2023-01-01
Abstract
e advent of Web 2.0 has profoundly changed the relationships between information, production, and consumption, transforming the way in which individuals and communities interact and creating new opportunities to learn, discover, and disseminate information. At the same time, several small villages of the Italian hinterland, characterized by structural weaknesses, are developing into virtuous, sustainable, and responsible communities, innovating and potentially changing their destiny – as shown by empirical evidence and scienti³c literature. Introducing the case of Aielli (AQ) – a municipality of 1.437 inhabitants and member of the Borghi Autentici d’Italia (BAI) Association, that has been home of the street art, music, performance, and astronomy festival “Borgo Universo” since 2017 – the paper aims to highlight how these small villages can o±er themselves to a particular form of leisure tourism, valorising their places while conveying their history and traditions in “vigorous” (Lynch, 1964) virtual images through the world wide web, creating new visions, images, and experiences that look at sustainability in its economic, social, cultural, and environmental dimensionsI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.