Indizi. Nuove ecologie del progetto nelle aree interne della Sardegna = Traces. New project ecologies in the inland areas of Sardinia

New architectures for new protagonists: is this what has been happening in inland and mountain Sardinia over the last two decades? And in which direction is mod- ernization going: does it operate on the self-referential level of forms, or is it associ- ated with innovative development paradigms? The paper addresses the awareness of identity as a project, which starts from the discovery of the relationship between constructive cultures, shapes and processes of historical communities and set- tlements. In the 1990s, the first results start from the recovery of historic centers, while in the early 2000s the focus shifted to the landscape, transforming a pure- ly conservative approach to places into a proactive one. A new generation of social and institutional leaders – and producers – brings out new clients for projects that re-interpret landscapes, architecture, object design, between continuity and innova- tion: not through mimetic traditionalisms, but by rediscovering “new ecologies” for transition.