Rediscovering Place: New Ruralities, New Landscapes and a Paradigm Shift

We are witnessing a rediscovery of place through new and imaginative formulae, as a result of the shift in paradigm led by civil society which understands political action differently. A civil society that has no difficulty acknowledging the importance of tying emotions to places, landscapes and, generally speaking, management of the public space. The rural world is seeing the emergence of new initiatives and attitudes, new values, new forms of social organisation that in some cases arise almost from nowhere and, in other cases, have been reinforced precisely on account of the economic, social and cultural catastrophe brought about by the tired references to the economic crisis.