Eco-innovative approaches as activators of the environmental reconstruction of compromised contexts

One of the most important issues in the environmental reconstruction of com-promised contexts is the renewal of open spaces as an added value to the urban fab-ric, especially when the eco-systemic bal-ance has been altered. The transformation of these contexts, which can be interpreted both as a system “discarded” by the crisis as well as a system that puts the territory that hosts them into “crisis”, plays a signifi-cant role in the activation of integrated revi-talisation processes. This is the case of the ASI zones: complex areas with a significant unexpressed or denied potential due to the impacts that productive activities have generated over times of use and non-use. Sharing the principles of an eco-innovative approach, the authors present a transfor-mation model which aims to reconstruct the integration between industrial centres and the territories where they are located. The model was tested within the framework of an interdisciplinary research project.