I Live in Vaccarizzo.

I live in Vaccarizzo is a Social Transformation Lab that the BRIT team facilitated from January to May 2019. The aim was to experiment with Otto Scharmer’s Theory U as a method to activate the repopulation in Vaccarizzo di Montalto (CS), a small village of 500 inhabitants of the Silane Apennines. Participants analyzed their current social system and co-designed the future scenario they wanted for their community. They generated four prototypes focused on the enhancement of the mountain, the care of the public spaces of the village, the creation of entertainment places for teenagers and the promotion of recipes and typical products of Vaccarizzo. This path has ignited so much energy in the community that in the following two years, despite Covid, cleaned the woods from garbage, planted flowers in the flower beds, reopened the post office, has established a community cooperative that has transformed the ACLI Circle in À Putiga, a minimarket run by three young local people.