Citizen Participation and Technologies: The C.A.S.T. Architecture

The role of the participation has assumed a key dimension in all processes of physical planning and economic planning in the urban scale to the regional scale. Technological innovation, the spread of internet and mobile, have generated significant innovations compared to the models of management of participatory processes and interaction with communities and citizens. A critical element of strong within these processes is the ability to manage the information produced by the community (real and / or virtual) in order to develop guidelines and shared visions for the city and the territory. The paper analyses this issue in reference to a project proposal aimed at the development of participatory processes multi-scalar within the Project CAST (Active Citizenship for Sustainable Development of the Territory), selected by the Region Basilicata inside of a contract for the development of innovative and creative activities. The project aims to develop creative and innovative processes in the planning of the city and the territory they see the broad involvement of the population and local actors. The proposal is a first contribution to the operating institution of “Urban Center” in the two main urban centers of the Region Basilicata: Potenza and Matera “European Capital of Culture - 2019”. This is attributable to a 2.0 approach the ability of citizens to define the project of the territory in which they live and work, contributing to the definition of a scenario shared for the promotion of local development projects and the development of urban regeneration policies.