Val di Sole Blueprint
LOCATION: Trentino-Alto Adige Region, Italy
APPLICANT(S): Submitted by Sara Favargiotti, University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering.
This project aims to create territorial strategies for areas which have been overlooked by regional policies and systemic approaches to local transformation. Branding4Reslience is a strategic tool that identifies and celebrates the area’s important water resources including lakes, rivers, glaciers and thermal springs. It highlights the identity and dynamics of its valleys to produce a programme of spatial strategies and operational branding as a way to secure local sustainable development that innovates through nature, and promotes integrated human-nature cohabitation.
JUDGES’ COMMENTS
·This is an extremely interesting approach to the role of landscape in regional and local sustainable development. The judges praised the approach of creating a strong and unique identity focusing on the character, attributes and possibilities of the landscape. We congratulate the community-led stewardship body to oversee long-term sustainable management of community spaces and resources.
The judges praised this project’s innovative approach to sustainable development, focusing on promoting and celebrating the landscape’s unique mountain identity. The role of researches from across disciplines was excellent, bringing together different perspectives to produce a project with an integrated outlook. Focusing on the valley’s water as a unifying theme was also noted as being a strong principle across the project.