The Smart City as an Evolutionary Network promoting Cultural Commons: The OR.C.He.S.T.R.A. Project and Naples Antique Center case study

The paper investigates the perspectives of applying the smart city paradigm in the Archaeology and Cultural heritage field, thus outlining the emerging concept of Smart Cultural Heritage and Smart Archaeology and proposing an integrated approach, in which the fundamental value of the cultural framework is aknowledged in the complexity of the "smart" paradigm. The theory of Cultural Commons, moreover, is invoked as a basis for the study on the advantages of sharing common resources (such as cultural heritage and the related digital information) within the Communities, identified in their inclination to innovation by means of the Evolving Networks model. In this context, the Or.C.He.S.T.R.A. project proposes a participatory and cooperative complex system of heterogeneous information on Naples antique center case study, ranging from mobility, to health, energy, cultural heritage, supporting the "smart" valorization of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, for citizens, visitors and tourists while fullfilling the principles of sustainability and eco-friendliness. The first experimentations of this methodological approach are presented, with focuses ranging from archaeological valorization to cultural heritage participate governance, to didactics innovation. The integration of these aspects multiplies their potential, impacting on the values of cohesion and density of networks of shared goods and services in the area, supporting innovation spreading in the community, and value creating on the territory, thus impacting on the possibility of the appearance of the "tragedy of cultural commons".