“Cultural sustainability” involves protecting and preserving both tangible and intangible aspects of culture heritage. It contributes to education, health, and well-being, and is essential for creating resilient, inclusive, and sustainable communities and places. “Cultural sustainability” and architectural and urban design share a common goal. In many cases, the regeneration of parts of cities and settlement fabrics in crisis, buildings and spaces of public or private property, forgotten, fallen into disuse, or never in use, cultural heritages subject to historical-artistic protection often in a state of abandonment or underuse, urban, suburban, rural, marginal, is sustained by a cultural base. The current crisis is leading to a shift in the paradigm of the “creative city” towards a focus on social and human capital, combining hard and soft infrastructures and promoting critical and creative thinking towards a revised urban phenomenon where the city is everywhere and in everything. Architecture plays a role in regenerating the identity and atmosphere of specific contexts, creating public spaces that foster a sense of belonging, allowing people to exercise their “right to the city” expanded to encompass a creative-learning city-land. In the all case studies, cultural production devices serve as connections between different elements, enabling complex relationships and ethical formation of society. Collaboration between institutions and communities is crucial, and architecture can contribute to this process, as tools for knowledge and regeneration of places.
This topic is deepened in a case of research and project for experimenting with different forms of interaction between society and culture, a laboratory of cultural-based regeneration between architecture, art, context.
