LEARNING FROM POLIGNANO

TEAM PORTRAIT

VIDEO (by the team)

INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issues of your project in relation with the theme “Re-sourcing”? Re-sourcing thanks to nature, to social dynamics, to new materiality? In which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution? And in which way do you think your project can be called a “regenerative project”?
The project addresses Re-sourcing by reactivating Polignano a Mare’s latent ecological, social and agricultural resources, reconnecting the hinterland to the coast. Nature becomes living infrastructure, sociality is re-sourced through co-design and communitarian spaces, and regeneration emerges from restoring biodiversity, shared living and circular local economies rather than extractive tourism.

2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
The design issues directly emerge from the site’s mutations: infrastructural barriers, seasonal tourism pressure, and the marginalization of the agricultural hinterland. These conditions revealed fractures - ecological, social, and spatial - that the project addresses by transforming the railway axis from a line of separation into a connective spine, reactivating inner landscapes, public spaces, and community centralities through a gradual, adaptive and site-specific strategy.

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