The Spazio Verso project. Toward an ecological approach to Welfare digitalization

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Carlotta Caciagli, Claudia Mastrantoni, Paola Piscitelli
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2024/111
Language Italian Pages 9 P. 145-153 File size 375 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2024-111013
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The contribution explores an ecological approach to welfare digitalization, investigating how physical access spaces can foster social inclusion and active citizenship. Focusing on the case of Rozzano, in the Milan metropolitan area, the research integrates urban planning, sociology, and design to analyze the role of service access spaces in fragile territories. Through mappings, interviews, and co-design with local actors, the pilot project Spazio Verso was depicted in its main characteristics: a relational and flexible environment that supports digital transition as a socially rooted process aimed at fostering autonomy, integration, and new alliances across generations, skills, and needs.

Keywords: ecological approach; digitalization of welfare; co-project

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Carlotta Caciagli, Claudia Mastrantoni, Paola Piscitelli, Il progetto dello Spazio Verso. Per un approccio ecologico alla digitalizzazione del Welfare in "TERRITORIO" 111/2024, pp 145-153, DOI: 10.3280/TR2024-111013