The Role of Participatory Cartography to the Enhancement of the Places and the Safeguarding of Landscape Values. The Aqueducts Park’s Case Study in Rome

Abstract

This work is the result of two years of research and fieldwork in the Appia Antica Park in Rome, based on the participatory processes that have stratified over time in the area, contributing to dynamics of re-signification. Using the modern cartographic instruments, this contribution aims to hypothesise future scenarios for the protection of the landscape in its natural, historical, cultural and identitarian components. The results obtained have highlighted links and conflicts between local communities and institutions. Furthermore, it allowed to analyze the main research about participatory practices, connecting them with the reflections about the use of cartography to systematise local knowledge, to hypothesize a management of common goods in the Aqueducts area.