CROSS PHENOMENA-THE NATURE_CITY. THE CASE OF MATERA.

“Nature_City” is a vision through which Matera comparing itself to many cities in the world. The recognition as Capital of Culture 2019, is based on the appreciation for a complete paradigm of a city that is articulated through five kinds of settlement forms, achieved in nine thousand years of history. The latest studies show that the best known urban regeneration has taken place in the quarters called Sassi. During which it has moved from their beeing denounced by De Gasperi as the “shame of humanity”, in the fifties, to their becoming the most famous Italian recovery of an ancient city, joining as well the list of Unesco’s World Heritage Sites. Proceeding from the earliest settlements until most recent city have been enucleated that represent a “capital” of experiences whose richness gives rise to a living bio-diversity that is now the biggest asset that allows Matera to perform a cultural role worldwide. The Nature-City_LAB | Dicem, forms part of a program of City workshops entitled Make way to Matera is a design process that takes place in that part of the city once called periphery.