Digital Twin: Piattaforme tecnologiche a supporto dei processi di pianificazione e gestione degli interventi sul territorio Digital Twin: Technological platforms to support the planning and management processes of interventions in the territory

Finding adequate responses to the new challenges for the well-being and progress of citizens posed by climate change, migration, armed conflicts, aging, and youth has shifted the orientations of European policies from top-down strategies towards place-based and territorial-evidence approaches, respecting the individual territorial vocations capable of encompassing environmental, climatic, social, historical, cultural, and economic diversities in function of a specific and articulated context. With these objectives, in support of interventions on the territory, a significant role – which characterizes the proposal presented here – is played by the new tools for "reading" the territory: acquisition, analysis, interpretation, monitoring, and real-time updating of material and immaterial data "extractable" from the multiple and rooted territorial specificities and their dynamics over time, capable of "narrating" the territory and expressing its potential and criticalities. The proposal, a collaboration in progress between the State Property Agency and the CITERA Center, seizes the opportunity promoted by the PNRR and aims at the preparation of a technological platform fot the Digital Twin to support the Local Authority in territorial planning and management processes. The proposal is articulated in the following phases:1) Definition of the boundaries of the territorial area and identification of governance, 2) Definition of the type and sources of the data to be acquired and GIS-based mapping according to the chosen topic 3) Production of the IT structure, 4)Delivery of results for effective communication tailored to the end-user. The platform for the Digital Twin will allow, through machine-readable data, to monitor trends, detect dynamics, simulate alternative scenarios, and outline addressing shared and place based strategies for the future.