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Fig. 4 The visits to the site-specific installation in 2018 (source photo by the Authors)
4 Conclusion
The success of the yearly workshops in terms of public participation to the meetings
and to the initiatives testifies the achievement of the goal of raising awareness in the
inhabitants. Ordinary people followed and participated in the seminars, attended to
the lectures and discussed with the young teams of researchers that involved (master
course, just graduated and Ph.D. students) the proposals and their specific needs,
expectations and the geographical and economic constraints of the region.
The Municipality, and the counsellors albeit changed after the elections, promote
and patronise the events organised by the research team, also participating in the
debates during the workshops and seizing the opportunity to start a direct dialogue
with the citizens.
Moreover, after the first two workshops, the owners of the historic centre’s buildings did realise the potentials of networking and of starting bottom-up actions and
gathered in a new association called Oliena Centro, with the aim of strengthening
their initiatives and sharing problems and opportunities. This has also created the
basis for a crowdfunding to start concrete actions.
Finally, the workshops became also a meeting place for the participants to trigger
a dialogue amongst the too often separated operators, to know each other better
and to foster new synergies and collaborations and to start working together for the
common good.
The lessons learned from the case study of Oliena are important in terms of
methodology enhancement. In particular, the participatory tools were differently
declined to include: discussions/debates with the citizens aimed at analysing their
demands and expectations as well as their perception of their home land and culture;
the creation of a two-way dialogue and direct exchange between Municipality and
citizens; disruptive cognitive reactions generated on the one hand by the supply of
L. Daglio et al.
Fig. 4 The visits to the site-specific installation in 2018 (source photo by the Authors)
4 Conclusion
The success of the yearly workshops in terms of public participation to the meetings
and to the initiatives testifies the achievement of the goal of raising awareness in the
inhabitants. Ordinary people followed and participated in the seminars, attended to
the lectures and discussed with the young teams of researchers that involved (master
course, just graduated and Ph.D. students) the proposals and their specific needs,
expectations and the geographical and economic constraints of the region.
The Municipality, and the counsellors albeit changed after the elections, promote
and patronise the events organised by the research team, also participating in the
debates during the workshops and seizing the opportunity to start a direct dialogue
with the citizens.
Moreover, after the first two workshops, the owners of the historic centre’s buildings did realise the potentials of networking and of starting bottom-up actions and
gathered in a new association called Oliena Centro, with the aim of strengthening
their initiatives and sharing problems and opportunities. This has also created the
basis for a crowdfunding to start concrete actions.
Finally, the workshops became also a meeting place for the participants to trigger
a dialogue amongst the too often separated operators, to know each other better
and to foster new synergies and collaborations and to start working together for the
common good.
The lessons learned from the case study of Oliena are important in terms of
methodology enhancement. In particular, the participatory tools were differently
declined to include: discussions/debates with the citizens aimed at analysing their
demands and expectations as well as their perception of their home land and culture;
the creation of a two-way dialogue and direct exchange between Municipality and
citizens; disruptive cognitive reactions generated on the one hand by the supply of