Il Design Sistemico per la valorizzazione del patrimonio faristico italiano

This paper focuses on the Mediterranean coastal monitoring actors (i.e. maritime signaling instruments) such as lighthouses, lights, traffic lights. A twofold motivation behind this choice: on the one hand the 110th anniversary - that will be celebrated in 2021 - of the transfer of the management of the lighting service of the coasts from the Italian Ministry of Public Works to the Navy. On the other hand, the willing to illustrate and experiment how the Systemic Design methodology can represent a strategic element for the enhancement of a coastal heritage such as the one represented by lighthouses. These monuments represent a unique system whose history led them to dialogue, to establish a relationship with the territory in which they are located. It seemed natural to think about the metaphor of the rhetorical figures proper to the story, or the plot and the warp which design a network in the territory: the Warp, the Weft and the Web.The enhancement of this heritage, therefore, corresponds to the evolution and maturation of a history of ideas with reference to those that are part of the design policy strategies for the Italian Cultural Heritage. In particular, by focusing attention on the concepts of conservation, protection, use and enhancement, we want to underline that they are not only intended as mere regulatory factors to be applied. They must be assumed by the designer, the conservator and the legislator himself as components of a wider systemic design issue.