Research by practice in the alpine environment: discovering the activity of MonViso Institute in Ostana. Dialogue with Tobias Luthe

New ideas often come from external influences, different paths that are essential for developing an economic model that’s not based on repeating the past but three pillars: cultural traditions, natural environment, and new ways of thinking. This happens at MonViso Institute, in Western Italian Alps, where a group researchers, designers entrepreneurs has been involved place-based research into transitions towards sustainability, regenerative design architecture, building deep relationship with social, environment. The Institute’s activities involve education technologies, climate change, permaculture, circularity materials, bio-composites, regional economics, which is embedded outdoor projects cooperation European universities other environment-oriented institutes. Together social realities have locally during last decades, Institute takes part regeneration process alpine village Ostana (CN), by representing significant, concrete programme can be out-scaled to describe re-inhabitation strategies may interest several mountain territories.