WE GET MORE IN THE CITY: THIS SHOWS FROM THE LATEST RESEARCH. A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE ISSUE OF HUMAN WELL-BEING IN THE URBAN CONTEXT WHERE HE LIVES AND WORKS CAN OFFER FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR IMPROVEMENT
Urban disease and the limits of medicine
The professor of endocrinology at La Sapienza University of Rome, Andrea Lenzi, points to cities like “worst causes of disease”.
The causes can be found in‘Environmental pollution, acoustic e light that affects them and in the “poor social aggregation”. A painting that tells us about the absence of harmony between man and the context in which he lives and how this split has developed progressive forms of isolation.
The result of this imbalance is theincrease the incidence of various pathologies, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity and, we would add, a widespread feeling of dissatisfaction.
The professor. Lenzi emphasizes the limits of medicine, which alone is unable to address this hidden discomfort. A multidisciplinary approach is needed, aimed primarily at repairing a relationship balance between man and his habitat, a primary source of well-being.
The title given to the refresher course organized by the Rome Medical Association is eloquent: “Cities that change the world: caring for spaces and people”. The premise is that you can’t really care for someone if you don’t pay close attention Attention to the place where he carries out his daily activities.
Multidisciplinary approaches
A holistic approach to the problem stems from a project that came to life in the province of Latina, in Lazio. This is the virtuous cooperation betweenEcomuseum of the Agro Pontino and the Ce.RSITe.S.Research and service center for sustainable technological innovation of the Latina department, ofLa Sapienza University From Rome.
The Agro Pontino Ecomuseum is a territorial museum body recognized by the OMR (Regional Museum Organization), configured as a true community development process, with the aim of improving the tangible and intangible heritage of the communities of the ‘Agro Pontino’.
This organization has been committed to integrating its approach with theterritorialist approach towards sustainability and studies about it Bioregion Pontine.
The Association of Territorialists unites scientists from different disciplines with the aim of a “return to the territory as the cradle and result of human action”, That “expresses and symbolizes the need to reintegrate the effects of human actions on the human mind and on the natural environment into social, and therefore also economic, analysis”it’s in the note.
This is the vision we are trying to develop and apply to the bioregion in the northwestern part of the province of Latina, which almost perfectly coincides with the territory of the Agro Pontino Ecomuseum.
An equation to find new solutions
Today, May 7, 2024, a study day will be held in Latina, in the meeting room of the Ce.RSITe.S., in the Faculty of Economics of La Sapienza University (Pontine detachment), to reflect on the above-mentioned topics.
The conference, organized by the Agro Pontino Ecomuseum in collaboration with the Sapienza Research and Services Center for Sustainable Technological Innovation, will focus on “Knowledge, ideas and proposals for the self-reliance of the Pontine Bioregion”.
On this day, university professors and researchers involved in drawing up the Research Project of National Interest (PRIN) participate. “Bioregional planning tools to co-design living places. Enabling local communities to manage and protect natural resources”.
Scientists from various research sectors of the Agro Pontino Ecomuseum will also speak.
Territory and self-reliance: the memory of Alberto Magnaghi
A room at the conference is dedicated to Alberto Magnaghi, professor emeritus at the University of Florence, who died last year. We remember his important activities as president of the Society of Territorialists and cultural reference point for territorial planning. According to the latter “sustainability” And “the capacity of a local territorial system to produce well-being in sustainable forms”.
They are necessary for its realization “the reproduction and extensive valorization of one’s own patrimonial resources (environmental, territorial, human), without external support (so with a modest ecological footprint) and with exchanges of solidarity and not of exploitation.”
It is also essential that residents emerge from closedness and localism and develop new forms of self-development individual and collective consciousness of the places where they live.
Engineers, urban planners, architects, historians, archaeologists, sociologists and anthropologists use their skills to bring together their knowledge in a new form of territorial science, which could form the basis for a renewed harmony between people and the environment.