Dopo la Carta di Venezia. Intorno al concetto di sostenibilità nelle carte del restauro

The cultural climate of the Second International Congress of Restoration in Venice (1964) represents a key mo-ment in which new problems appear for which new approaches to a cultural dimension of development are emerging. The notion of development evolves in a humanistic perspective, which shifts the centrality towards the individual and towards a progress inseparable from environmental, social and economic aspects. Retracing the themes addressed in this period in the international debate becomes a fundamental step to understand the evolution of today’s issues related to the preservation of the world heritage, and the role of Unesco that, from the second half of the twentieth century, promotes the debate on sustainable development and sustainability by placing it at the heart of international agreements. The study aims to analyze how these concepts have since then spread into the charts and subsequent international declarations and continue to animate the current debate that sees outlining new approaches related to the discipline of restoration and the relationship between heritage, development, context.