preface

The Summer School Ticino is an annual seminar organized by HSLU in collaboration with the International Institute of Architecture that brings together students of different disciplines in the Blenio Valley for a week at the end of the summer. A place of interest and with a strong naturalistic charm, over the years it has had to face the consequences of depopulation, a problem common to various mountain regions. Aware of this, the goal of the seventh edition is IVS TI 2 the development of various projects located throughout the area aimed at reactivating common spaces for the local population and tourists. INVENTARIO DELLE VIE Documentazione IVS Classificazione Nazionale DI COMUNICAZIONE STORICHE Cantone Ticino DELLA SVIZZERA pagina 3 We want to work with the place, with the existing material, with the landscape, with our environment, to understand and integrate the multiple facets and realities with a global and coherent approach. The projects intervene at different scales and each one follows a different timeline of realization. The planning of sustainable regional development for this area must necessarily take into account a variety of aspects: an integrative and therefore interdisciplinary approach is essential to address not only the architectural aspects, but also the social and economic ones.

Le Tre Valli ambrosiane in un disegno topografico delle chiese di Leventina, Blenio e Riviera del 16.-17. secolo conservato all'Archivio arcivescovile di Milano (BIUCCHI 1982: 82). Nello schizzo sono indicate le due strade della Riviera. Fig. 1