Small construction sites for the regeneration of public space

Public space is an area full of contradictions, but also the place to overcome them. It is an essential propulsive factor that results in a tight dialectic between different intentions and expectations. It talks about the management policies of the Public Authorities, often it needs a shared process of urban and territorial transformations that can give different opportunities to economic and social actors and outline a new, fluid and flexible management model. These are historicized contexts on which the hand of man has made transformations in a discontinuous manner, which preserve the identity and settlement typical of the territorial context. The outcome of such interventions, in the role of public-run pilot experiments, should highlight the qualities of the existing building stock and stimulate similar processes on private construction. The research takes into consideration the public space of Monterosso Almo (RG) thanks to a Convection between University of Catania and Municipality, in place since 2019. The requests of the municipal administration are aimed at identifying urban regeneration strategies on the Matrice district, the first nucleus of settlements. The methodology adopted involves the identification and mapping of material and immaterial urban elements (margins, overlaps, characteristics of material culture) and their classification between public and private. The construction of a palimpsest of elements and classification leads to the identification of the pilot yards and intervention for prevailing technical elements