Cultural Heritage and Collective Knowledge

Abstract

This research deals with the analysis of cultural heritage through innovative technologies and presents, in detail, a project which proved fully in line with the “smart city” model, in specie created for the promotion of the old neighborhoods downtown Salerno. The initiative, named “Salerno in Particular. Cultural Heritage and Innovation”, raised from the creativity of several students in the University of Salerno, who—within institutional cooperation—developed a cultural alternative to the extant ones, focused on the systematization of a wide range of knowledge and skills, both humanistic and scientific. Through a wide-ranging performance of activities and events—carried out in different and prestigious venues throughout the city—the historic district’s downtown Salerno (a geographical context characterized by a distributed presence of historical, artistic, and archeological relics) have been interpreted and proposed so to retrace the past with an eye to modernity. From a methodological point of view, the named actions have greatly benefited from the geographic-based contribution; in particular, they have allowed the deepening of aspects related to localization and contextualization of cultural heritage and made possible the elaboration of detailed maps (even geo-referenced and interactive, independently proposed, and others) as a starting point for the various involvements of the project).