Participatory design models. Resilience-based re-semantization of territory

Starting from the definition of ‘territory’ as a ‘complex system’, the following is a reflection on methods, processes and tools that the Design discipline can offer within projects of territory’s re-semantization. This research takes place through the analysis of two exemplary case studies of resilient design that reflect the transformation from ‘territory’ to ‘landscape’: the case of the Parisian Clichy-Batignolles eco-district (from degraded suburb to ‘sustainable landscape’) and the Sicilian Farm Cultural Park project (from abandoned province to ‘cultural landscape’). Both of them constitute Design Participatory models on the territory that see a bottom-up approach as a basis, with the intervention of the community in the design process.