To know and represent environmental and cultural disaster of the territory: historical documents, current situation and valuation strategies

The contribution focuses on issues related to documentation and representation methods of the territory, more and more compromised by event and calamity, both anthropological and natural, that led to the depletion of many historical centres, rich in natural and cultural values. The phenomenon of abandonment which has involved for years several villages in Abruzzo - due to the economic impoverishment factors generated by the lack of productive activities, the changing lifestyles, the displacement of infrastructures and traffic that has often modified the layouts of the past, moving them away from the modern communication networks – is further exacerbated by the problems of hydrogeological instability and the repeated seismic events (2009 and 2016). The several researches conducted on the territory, the surveying activities realized for different purposes, methodologies and opportunities for study, allow to analytically examine this scenery by combining their existing data with the current updates, carried out with the help of drones and acquisition software image based. On such documentary bases, organized in data-base, the cognitive process that aims a reading of pieces from the territory is articulated, carried out at different scales, which are reassembled as in a puzzle to provide analytical information, based on the survey and their graphical representations. All in order to document the values of the places, the natural and architectural features that form them, to relaunch them with enhancement strategies, regarding the tangible and intangible heritage that they are preserving.