I Briganti A Senerchia

"Briganti" - Gianmarco Cafaro Gianmarco recounts the story of the brigands of Senerchia and how the legends surrounding them have inspired his own storytelling. REPLACE meets BRACI The exhibition "Radici ed Ali: Storie, Oggetti e persone raccontano Senerchia/ Roots and Wings: Stories Objects and people tell the tale of Senerchia" grew out of the project "REPLACE meets BRACI" and brought together Studio Miral and the REPLACE Project. We asked residents of Senerchia to bring items that they felt were important parts of their home town, the stories behind them and how they connect. ‘REbuilding a sense of PLACE (REPLACE)’ REPLACE is a programme of research that aims to increase community resilience after natural disasters by advancing our understanding of the socio-cultural role 3D technologies can play in rebuilding a sense of place, thus enabling communities to prepare for, respond to, recover from, mitigate the effects, and adapt to environmental disasters. Through collaboration with cutting-edge technology companies, REPLACE will enhance the UK's leading role in the transformational use of new technologies to sustain heritage, communities and culture through disasters. When communities lose their place, and heritage through disasters, they also risk losing their identity, making them particularly vulnerable. Heritage makes places significant, socially and culturally, and is therefore essential to the definition of identity and sense of place. This is why for people, for communities, losing heritage through disaster is the same as losing an arm or a leg: ‘you never fully recover’. When communities are at risk of losing their tangible heritage through the destruction caused by environmental disasters – REPLACE is aiming to use 3D technologies to build resilience and enable communities to ‘bounce back better’ after a disaster. With the growing impact of the climate crisis becoming increasingly evident in communities around the world, these series of case studies in Italy will inform how societies and communities can mitigate and tackle episodes of destruction, with a series of publications, events and reports documenting the projects findings.