We follow their journeys through different maturity seasons, seeking to understand their needs and allowing ourselves to get touched by their beautiful visions for thriving rural areas.

From May 14 to 21, 2023 Grottole will host the European Training of the Open School for Village Hosts, an Erasmus + project coordinated by the Casa Netural Association, together…

Among the several things to be done when approaching a community, I would like to stress two in this post: getting to know a community and co-designing with it.

Design in the 21st century is neither the subject nor object; rather, it is a method for defining why one or other solution or design intervention is needed.

In Roman religion, every place inhabited and frequented by humans is characterized by the presence of a supernatural entity: the Genius loci.

Depopulation of rural areas, caused by a combination of population loss and population aging, keeps hindering their socioeconomic development.

Numerous small rural villages across the globe have been confronted with challenges such as dwindling populations, inadequate economic prospects, and emigration to metropolitan regions.

n this fast changing environment, when we are easily distracted by outer stimuli, it is important to develop meta skills, as well as hard and soft skills.

Last week, from 12 - 13.01.2023, CDOP attended the third parters meeting organized in the town of Valmiera, in the west of Latvia.

Rural communities face sustainability opportunities and challenges that follow trends in migration, food value chains, rural business succession, and more.