Description of a Pilot Digital Interactive Tool of Territorial Resource’ Spatial Projection and Management

Abstract

A resource as a virtual structure that is directly connected to the space (territorial resource) is synthesized as a multitude of items – ingredients of material or immaterial dimension. The material ingredients have a tangible substance, such a permanent element of nature or a human construction, such as landscape, water, monuments, paths, etc., while the immaterial ingredients deal with any intangible notion such as heritage, sustainability, prosperity, historical event, social relationships, etc. The properties of both material and immaterial ingredients connection of a resource are dramatically important to describe and highlight a territorial resource. This connection should be associated with a spatial projection/visualization allowing actors (decision makers, training local policy, citizens, etc.) who are involved in a process of construction territorial resources to better understand the space and to consult in a more fertile manner in a participatory territorial resource’s management process. The research deals with the theoretical description of a digital tool of territorial resources’ representation and management that will combine modern simulation technologies and will investigate the search of a functional relationship between virtual environment, territorial resource’ elements and local actors’ institutional learning cognitive needs, leading in this way, to enhanced sustainable management of territorial resources. Finally, the proposed tool should help the process of identifying and highlighting the territorial resource, the active participation of local actors and the collective local memory in order to project in space the connection of the material/immaterial elements of the territorial resource.