Experience-based course of social generativity in villaggio celdit, chieti. History of challenge for popular quarter’s rebirth after big factory’s closure

Abstract

This chapter is dealing with experience-based course of social generativity in Villaggio Celdit in Chieti, its name due to “Cellulosa d’Italia CEL.D.IT.”, later named “Cartiera CIR”. The “Villaggio” is in fact a quarter built for working people of Fratelli Pomilio Paper-mill, factory born in 1938 after starting an advanced technique. In 70s, only the cellulose department had counting over 700 hands. But with wrong policy, factory closed in 2008, and the Villaggio transformed itself in a peripheral quarter, not only in the way of “distant from centre”, but also in sense of “marginal”, closed in its perimeter, in spite of nearness of college campus “G. D’Annunzio”. In 2000, City Administration of Chieti determined to start local service offered to young, an aggregation space. It has allowed to lay, more than purposes and expectations of Administration and social operators, foundation stone to way of quarter’s rebirth. It will also enounce the experience that, before social intervention, is people meeting, a workshop that rises and receives youth, associations, people, groups, organizations’s requests, in a high potential quarter. It will demonstrate that social generativity is a course consisting to stay in the state of degradation to attain to know its real daily dimension and by running this inevitable bottleneck that one would gain intergenerational dimension, capable to “negotiate ties among past, present and future” (Magatti 2017).