There are places that immediately come to mind when it comes to civil commitment. There is the house of the Cervi brothers, symbol of the Resistance, there is that of Peppino Impastato a hundred steps away from the boss who was fighting in Cinisi. C.ivic Places, an initiative promoted by the Italian Social Foundation and the Italian Touring Club with SkyTG24 and SEC Newgate is the first national campaign for the mapping and promotion of Italian civic places not to be forgotten and valued. Until September 20, all citizens will be able to nominate the most significant places on the Becivic website.
Civic Places are physical spaces in which something important for the community has happened or still happens, which has generated bonds and inspires the civil commitment of citizens. Among these there are places where history was made, others that are caskets of works of art, others are places where the testimony of an experience is alive that has had an impact on the social context in which she was born and raised.
The mapping is open to all. Citizens, corporate bodies and organizations can propose physical places to have them recognized with the registered trademark Civic Places. Those chosen will enter a network of enhancement and promotion. An expert committee of Italy Social Foundation e Touring Club Italiano it will evaluate and recognize which spaces represent real “places of us”, because they testify to a collective and community commitment aimed at building the common good.
BeCivic, of which Civic Places is a part, is a cultural project born with the aim of helping to rebuild a common civic awareness. He was selected to be part of the New European Bauhaus initiative. Civic Places are physical places with a history that look to the future and must be characterized by paradigmatic and documentable civic significance, evocative and inspirational capacity for communities, accessibility, are places that are actually or potentially accessible and experimentable.
“The CIVIC PLACES initiative is a project to rediscover the value of civicism through visual immediacy and concreteness of a physical place», Explains Gianluca Salvatori, general secretary of Italy Social Foundation, “Seeing a place, in fact, allows you to identify with the people who have committed themselves there in favor of the common good and understand how their work has managed to affect the social context”.
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