Given the interest of many knowledge workers to move to live and work in tourist areas close to nature (INAPP analysis), a socio-cultural hybrid space (which includes a coworking space) in a mountain community setting has the potential to attract such workers and promote their rootedness in the local ecosystem. The project will implement a development program with a multidisciplinary approach (e.g., supply and demand analysis, business plan, functional layout). Particular attention will be paid to fostering the role of mediation and integration between the users of the space and the local community, facilitating relations between urban and rural areas, and innovative activities of mutual training and knowledge exchange. In this context, space fosters social cohesion, and the well-being of users and the community, preventing phenomena of land fragilization.

The research will include analysis of the scientific literature, analysis of the supply of hybrid spaces in the mountain environment (mapping and categorization with italiancoworking.it data source), demand analysis of the needs of local communities in terms of services and functions (socio-economic analysis of the territory, focus groups and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders), and the creation of a development program (business plan, functional layout) for the pilot case in the municipality of Ledro, replicable and scalable in marginal mountain areas.