Public spaces culture-led regeneration: monitoring complex values networks in action

In the current European scenario, culture-led urban regeneration policies and practices are being enhanced by the introduction of interdisciplinary innovative approaches. This also involves the development of methodologies and tools to address material and immaterial networks among communities, economies, and processes. Indeed, this is being done through interconnections and interactions among urban plans and projects, institutional, creative and economic actors, and physical and digital infrastructures. This process is overturning hierarchies and power relations, creating the conditions necessary to encourage new collaborative regeneration of urban spaces and places, considering certain open questions: what kind of culture-led regeneration models are adopted to achieve local development in response to global challenges? What kinds of values and uses must we improve in order to enhance the stimulation of communities to act and build complex values networks? The present paper aims to identify the components of new forms of local complex values networks for deprived areas in Southern Italy based upon the ex-post evaluation of selected practices. The objective is to understand how activating similar initiatives as a "chain reaction" makes it possible to face unsolved conflicts and build new values systems tailor-made for a specific local context.