Learning from the City: An Emotional Journey.

Urban space is a real anthropological space, the result of the mixture of real sites and emotional references. In small urban realities, similar to the six villages of this research, the relationship between site and inhabitant is strong. The advent of new media and a different sociality has altered customs consolidated over time, unhinging the emotional link with real space. This research promotes the creation of an implementable platform that allows users to ‘learn’ from the city through an ‘emotional journey’. The platform elaborates a strategy to strengthen the bond be-tween the city and its inhabitants. The centres involved in the research are six small villages of the Sicilian Ionian coast: Forza d’Agrò, Casalvecchio, Mandan-ici, Fiumedinisi, Alì and Itala. The research work flow includes: building a data-base of emotions and memories; choice of a communication strategy; elaboration of emotional maps and integrated multimedia contents.