Colore Identità. Valorization of the historic urban centre of San Sperate (CA) Sardinia

The project has the aim of changing permanently the centre of a rural village through the use of coloured asphalt. The project is a result of the experience gathered in 40 years of recent history of the village, during which it has been transformed in an open air artistic laboratory by both local and international artists who have changed the colour of the village walls from earth-like ones, to carefully chosen “enthusiasm colours” of mural paintings. The operational phase of the project, started in 2007, allowed an exchange of knowledge with people from different backgrounds. From the academic point of view the project has become post-disciplinary, involving scholars from disciplines as diverse as environmental psychology, semiotics, architecture. The next stage will involve non-scholars in the design of the intervention in the public space. We want to demonstrate that a new methodology both in urban planning and in academic research is not only needed but also viable.