(how to) draw a process - An Architectural storytelling of a social innovation case

Widespread awareness of climate change is one of the drivers of the shift of focus from new construction to the regeneration of the disused spaces of our cities. More than ever, this context requires that designers act as interpreters of processes and custodians of the sensitivities of the project locations. This ensures the implementation of projects consistent with the context, preventing spaces from falling back into cycles of abandonment. The goal is to develop visual tools to enhance the effectiveness of participatory processes in urban space regeneration projects, often downgraded to tokenism. The use of images aims to make processes more understandable, reproducible, and inclusive, overcoming the inefficiency of existing (mostly textual) communication tools for a dynamic context such as the city. The research develops a novel method of visual process storytelling, applied to the case study of Lumen Firenze, a bottom-up culturally-based regeneration project of a disused municipal space. The visual coding makes the narrative accessible to the more diverse stakeholders -children, the elderly, and people with cognitive or language diversity- offering flexible reading modes to interests and abilities. Experimentation has shown that readers intuitively approach to personalized reading, understand the project context and the relationship between material and immaterial aspects without prior knowledge, and are stimulated to make connections with personal experiences. --- The Biennial of European Cities and Town Planners is an event of the European Council of Town Planners ECTP-CEU that aims to discuss the main issues in the European debate related to urban planning by sharing them with urban planners, architects, engineers, economists, sociologists, architectural historians, citizens, politicians, private and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The papers contained in this Catalogue cover the theme "Inclusive Cities and Regions/ Territoires inclusifs," chosen for the 14th edition, organized April 22-24, 2024, in Naples with INU as the main organizer. Inclusion is understood in its multiple declinations that define the 10 overarching themes of this Biennial - Regional Issues and Regional Inequality, Metropolitan or City Proposals, Urban Regeneration and Public Spaces, Migration and Cultural Inclusion, Cultural Heritage, Resilience and Adaptation, New Economic Approaches, IT and the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Planning, Ports, Airports and Other Infrastructure, and Underground Space - and in others proposed by participants that further specify the overarching themes.