Minor Heritage

A crisis has significant implications on the disposal process. What is left of the fixed social capital associated with productive activities requires a new design approach. The attention paid to new life cycles changes conventional design paradigms: lifespan, size,functions, and use values.The chapter discusses the way in which a large overhead of social fix capital could enter into the game of territorial transformation after the crisis. Infrastructure minors in the Alpine valleys, the services of social housing estates, soils and buildings used for productive activities and underused or abandoned territorial areas are examples of social overhead capital "suspended" that has exhausted their original potential and now are object of attention or different forms of recycling. In this framework, the article investigates the normative aspects (rules, constraints, opportunities) that allow the project to compete with these forms of social fix capital embedded in the soil.