CULTURAL BASED REGENERATION AND BANDO BORGHI - NRRP CULTURA

Emmanuele Curti, former archaeologist and cultural manager, after training in Perugia, he landed in London, where he taught at the University and Birkbeck College, from 1992 to 2003, and subsequently at the University of Basilicata until 2015. He worked for years on acculturation processes in antiquity between the Greek, Roman and indigenous worlds. After leaving the university, he now works on projects on the role of culture as an instrument of welfare, (creative and cultural enterprises, cultural heritage, inland areas, community tourism, etc.). He was a consultant for Matera 2019 and is a founding member of Lo Stato dei Luoghi. He writes for various newspapers.

General Manager of Confcooperative Reggio Emilia from 2007 to 2022, today he is in charge of R&D in Confcooperative Terre d'Emilia and of the development of community cooperation in the national network of Confcooperative. In training, research and managerial roles, he has been involved in welfare and territorial development for public and private social organisations since 1997. Since 2005 he has been particularly involved in the cooperative application for the community regeneration of places. He has collaborated with numerous research and social promotion organisations publishing articles and essays in popular channels, scientific journals and collective texts.

Alessandra Zagli is a community development and facilitation expert with ten years of experience in designing and implementing empowerment and collective intelligence processes within communities and organizations in different settings, using a combination of ICT tools and approaches mainly stemming from the social service design field. After a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy of Language and a Bachelor’s degree in Development Economics at the University of Florence, she joined LAMA Agency as a partner in 2009. She has experience in the design and implementation of innovative non-formal education programmes and in particular, in educational games, team learning, new media and open source technologies for education. She has led co-designing and prototyping events and programmes, crowd-sourcing processes, design thinking for social innovation and systemic design methods and paths. She has coordinated several European Projects in European Countries and the Middle East. She was the community manager for the “OpenMaker” project, financed by the European Research programme Horizon2020, and the “OD&M” project, financed by the European Union Erasmus+, KA2, Knowledge alliance programme.