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Added Value For Craft Project - This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This presentation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein

1. An ambitious project in Perugia: a craft factory in the kultur-fabrik

2. Parco Agricolo sud Milano: an area sustainable for artisans

3. Modena: the artisan village

4. The use of rice husk in the production of bricks as secondary raw material in Piedmont Region

5. Sustainable products, hisotry and tourism

Craft and sustainability: five examples

An ambitious project in Perugia: a craft factory in the kultur-fabrik

The kultur-fabrik is located in the antient premise of the city prison.

The project entails the aggregation of different type of crafts activities within a space where ideas and business will meet.

The building was realized on the ancient Rocca Paolina ruins between 1865 and 1870, by Giuseppe Polani (also author of the Le Nuove an impressive prison in Torino). It presents the classical features of a prison, with four arms and panoptic plant cell outline comprising nearly 350 units. The prison facility is no longer working since many years and over time has been put forward numerous and alternate hypotheses about its fate.

The specific content of the initiative

The project started in the context of the interventions to achieve the European Culture Capital award for the year 2019 (i.e. Perugia + Assisi = PerugiAssisi) and to boost the social and economic background of Perugia which is also the Capital of Umbria Region.

KULTUR-FABRIK, i.e. the name of the project, aims to contribute, together with other initiatives, to the resumption of economic viability and socio-cultural development.

The organizations promoting the initiative are: Confederazione Italiana Artigianato (C.N.A.) - Regione dellUmbria - Fondazione per Perugia (etc.) Capitale Europea - Many other local institutions and associations

The environmental issues

The overall structure of the project is based on the requalification and restoration of the ancient building. The works will be realized respecting the former shape and improving the structural facilities, together with creating an area where businesses develop art, jobs, new idea and social development.

The restoration of the building will allow operators to think about new technologies, new furniture, new ways of consuption, with less use of energy and materials and the best recycling capacity.

The social issues

The philosophy of the project is to make transparent and participatory production processes: make but also think and improve ...

Transparency and participation are expected to facilitate a meeting point between the immediate competencies of the artisans and the needs of consumers: make in real time or almost ...

Among the key objectives of the project there is the will to establish coordination bodies between laboratories, training organizations and services facilities for a collegial management of the entire building (or part of it). Self-management is also intended as an example and proposed civic organization.

Exchanges of experiences, needs analysis, proximity to educational institutions and, in general, life inside the "kultur-fabrik" will allow the craftsmen to define skills and competencies useful to small businesses.

As a common roof for a number of operators with different activities (production, training, 3D printing, education, etc.) it will become easier to identify synergies for research and experimentation and enable specialized networks.

Enable entrepreneurs to make a common front against exogenous shocks.

Contribution to the development of a sustainable economy: areas of greatest

relevance

Parco Agricolo sud Milano: an area sustainable for artisans

1983: creation of the suburban and agricultural Park with regional law n. 83

1990: Official establishment of the agricultural park with regional law n. 24

2010: Official presentation and launch of the project Parco Agricolo Sud Milano. An Area suitable for Artisans

Reconstruction, restoration and revitalization of an area with environmental, economic and social problems


Renevable energy 7

Communication 2

Building and plant 4

Arts and crafts 5

Industrial laundries 3

Repair of agricultural machinery 4


2 general

objectives

Services for agriculture in

the PASM

Finding an innovative

method of cooperating

with the territory

The social issues

Strategy and 4 key points

The specific objectives are determined together based on common (shared) motivations

Doing is in the center between design and test

Doing things together as a first step for a network that is based on the effective sharing of objectives and benefits

PASM is a great added value to be used

Contribution to the development of a sustainable economy: areas of greatest relevance

The entire project is designed to recover economic and political space for many small craft businesses

All of the Park Plan is inspired by the logic of order and balance between the different components

Modena Artisan village

A new project on an old Villaggio artigiano It is situated in the western

sector of the city, in an area that until recent time could be considered "first suburbs," but today it is central to the structure and life of the city. The Village is therefore a kind of "island of artisan production", surrounded primarily by residential neighborhoods and tangentially touched by major services.

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Economic value and entrepreneurship: Seen in retrospect as well as with a modern perspective, the craft village was a major help in what today is called the start-up of new businesses. Possibility for the artisans to build their homes near the sheds, thus reducing significantly their personal and family costs of residence and transportation.

Urban value: from the point of view of the discipline of urban design and urban planning, the Village Craftsman is interesting in several respects, strongly connected to those mentioned above, that the dismantling of the railroad will make it even stronger and potentially herald new opportunities for 'entire city.

Identity value of the Village Craftsman: it is a "piece" of the city history and an example of the "Modena model" who made his fortune for the economic and social development. As such, it is felt by the Modena as a factor to keep track and still be valued.

The regeneration of the area is based on maintaining the traditional character, that also evolved into forms other than those of the past, but has retained and is characterized by a great ability to "know how".

Its evolution is the settlement in relation to those activities classified as creative industries (the creative industries of Anglo-Saxon literature): settled partly spontaneous and partly to satisfy and encourage the redevelopment as a business driver;

The Village is no longer just an "industrial area", but a certain part of the city very devoted to "work", but also where you can live, do shopping, go out, live. No forms of conflict between "new" and "old" (apart from some limited appearances and particularly impacting environmentally). The transformation process is based on the principles of continuity and renewal.


Charter of coexistence rules

The Charter provides rules for sharing of services such as waste disposal and sharing at the expense of utility and social areas such as warehouses or bike paths ...

One of the aims of the project is to help small businesses organizations to become open to external collaborations, capable of participating in a network of production, distribution and finance.

The social issues

The Charter provides certain rules of conduct and some ethical objectives and the establishment of consortia between companies in order to:

- Countering the rents and real estate speculation - Encourage the inclusion of the most vulnerable members - Get used to the participation in the control procedures of the economic, social and environmental issues The whole project is aimed at

fostering a creative entrepreneurship and to provide facilities for makers (workshops & places to showcase/sell work).

The specialization made possible by the cooperation, enables advancements in terms of knowledge and skills.

Particular attention is paid to the objective of creating an economically viable, self-sufficient sector and a pleasant habitat where to work, move and live.

Contribution to the development of a

sustainable economy: areas of greatest

relevance

The use of rice husk in the production of bricks as secondary raw material in Piedmont Region

The enterprises which apply excellent strategies in the production of bricks are all located between the Piedmont areas of Torino, Alessandria and Cuneo

The sector is bricks manufacture


In response to the growing crisis in the production sector of bricks elements, and the consequent decline in demand from the construction sector, the production strategy switched from the kilns for bricks to the offer of products with innovative features. The success component was to identifying processes capable of enhancing alternative raw materials of natural origin, to obtain simultaneously a virtuous production process from the environmental point of view and a final product with environmental characteristics competitive, in terms of energy saving.

Companies have rated as the most relevant question for the client (within the construction industry) the products performances in the field of energy consumption and having natural origin with no-impact for the environment.

The innovation consisted in testing and consequently use rice husk in the production of bricks, mixed with the clay before the drying and the firing in the kiln.

This innovative use of secondary raw material has two significant advantages: a significant reduction in energy requirements during cooking and drying of bricks and a resulting product that presents little holes, due to the combustion of husk in, such holes making process results in a decreased thermal transmittance of the clay, and then an increase in the insulating capacity and at the same time benefits in terms of weight and strength of the final product.


The good practice described results in a virtuous management of resources because of the secondary raw materials use with natural origin and that such use reduced energy consumption during the production and in the building construction.


The positive environmental impacts arising from the application of good practice are manifold:

Supply to KM 0 of the rice husk

Reduction of energy consumption both at the production stage and in the use phase of the bricks

Disposal of the product at reduced costs in the supply chain

Sustainable products, history and tourism

Traditional handicraft as a touristic attraction and vehicle of environmental education

The Jumarre is an association that operates in Piemonte in the areas of "green tourism and education. Organizes trekking, hiking, walking, accomodation for groups of all ages in the context of natural alpine mid-mountain, guided visits to historic sites and eco-museums.

They organize workshops and seminars aimed at enhancing the local ancient handicraft techniques (i.e. relating to the production of felt or wood processing), the use of the spontaneous products of the forests and their transformation.


The Refuge hiking was founded on the initiative of the naturalistic association Jumarre with the intention to propose an original model for management of the refuge towards environmental sustainability seen as both a management tool and as a subject of education.

From an initial period in which the shelter has experienced laboratories in the area of environmental education, now has been reached a sustainability approach in which each business process has the objectives to:

Use all food products to KM 0 and the remaining bough through fair trade

The supply of drinking water was carried together with the City of Angrogna through the construction of an aqueduct from a local disused spring

The heating of the premises (the shelter has an accommodation for overnight guests) is made with two stoves in self-made raw earth bricks, which are fed with local scrap lumber


The good management practice applied by the shelter The Jumarre provides the sustainable management of supplies and processes, from mobility to food supplies, water, craft and cultural resources.

Their educational activities are structured as workshops addressed to people of all ages in order to spread a culture of environmental sustainability in ancient production techniques for handicraft products

Some Examples:

Production of soap and beauty products

Handmade wool product

Use and transformation of natural herbs for medical scope

Realization of ceramics pottery

The social issues

The good practice described is aimed at the preservation of the traditions of the Occitane Waldensian Valleys

The strength points are based on the promotion of Valdese and Occitan culture, in order to transmit the values and its relevant expressions. Moreover the activities of the shelter are realized through collaboration of self-employed and entrepreneurial work forces so that to support entrepreneurial development.


The skills developed in the implementation of good practice described are constantly in progress and are designed to capture the changes in sustainability strategies

The activities of The Jumarre are oriented to the involvement of an increasing number of individuals and institutions in building a structural approach which is not occasional but focused on environmental sustainability and enhancement of territory and cultures

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