TRENT. “New inhabitants of the highlands: is living a physical action or a feeling projected onto the territory? What is the profile of the new mountain dwellers? Who wants, today, to move to the valleys, to fill the social voids caused by depopulation, even if Are the services poor? These are some questions addressed during the first appointment of “An hour to acclimatise“, review included in the Trento Film Festival.
The review of The Other Mountain organized with The Dolomites, There will be nice weather, Alto Rilievo-mountain voices And Protect our winters, which addresses and explores, with the help of experts and technicians, various nuances, consequences and repercussions of the climate crisis. A first event with already a great success with the public in Piazza Battisti in Trento.
Guests of the event “New mountaineers” They were Luigi Dall’Armellina, manager of Malga Cere, the journalist Erica Balduzzithe Sociologist Andrea Membretti and the guide Luca Stefanelli with the management of Pietro Lacasella And Sofia Farina, Michele Argenta And Marta Manzoni.
“Today it is difficult to outline a unitary identikit”, explains Balduzzi, creator of Montanarium and signature of The Other Mountain. “There are the elderly people who decide to stay, those who leave the mountains and then return, perhaps elsewhere or those who are born in the city and then move to the highlands. There are different personal stories and motivations, but perhaps a single common thread: a search for space. Not just physical, a town or a valley but a place to express yourself, chase dreams and do business.”
With the climate crisis, the mountain can once again become the protagonist of contemporary living. “A factor that plays a role – says Membretti, professor of territorial sociology at the University of Pavia. His main field of study is migration to and from mountainous and rural territories in relation to climate change, to extreme events and socio-economic and demographic changes. “This then requires management and securing of the territory, which is increasingly fragile, to deal with the arrival of people. We need to work on the critical issues for sustainable reception, even of a maximum number of people.”
A focus on an increasingly fragile territory was explained by Stefanelli, medium mountain guide. “There is a polarization of the landscape between abandonment and productivism. A dynamic that is also felt in the highlands, in particular productivism and tourist standardization. Our role is to provide education on the naturalistic, historical and cultural background”.
And there are several projects that are taking place to promote the territory through culture. Here is the example of Malga Cere at 1,713 meters above sea level Lagoraia structure that also houses a high altitude library. “The quality of life made me choose to live in the mountains. It is essential to re-establish the right balance between man and the environment”. There is no shortage of critical issues, such as services., which provides for a diversification between needs and income that can make the difference.
And this evening (Saturday 27 April) from 7pm to 8pm we return to Piazza Battisti for the second appointment: “Story and mountain, mountain is story” with Marco Albino Ferrari. What role did the story have and what role does it have today in the process of building mountain imagery and how has it managed to make the mountain a mass attraction? But also and above all, why is it necessary today to avoid encouraging stereotyped narratives, capable of impacting the perception of those who experience the mountains only sporadically? The themes of the event.
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