The seminar focused on the relationship between urban and rural dynamics, in a situation of competition in the use of the same resources – soil, water and energy. The confrontation between the need for density and food security, the abandonment of traditional agrarian structures in a context of climatic resurgence or the pressure on biodiversity in territories subject to exponentially growing material and energy flows, threaten vital, organic and societal connections.
However, from these rapidly changing contexts emerge potential synergies that risk escaping the all too often segmented and specialized descriptions of inhabited territories, and which make it possible to envisage repair and revitalization trajectories.