Title: C. Enabling Collaboration: Supporting Regional Integration
Abstract: Regional integration is one of the three pillars of OpenHeritage's approach to heritage management.While initially quite open, the term was refined during the project, gaining meaning in relation to the other two pillars -stakeholder and resource integration.It describes the process by which adaptive heritage reuse (AHR) is incorporated into a larger territorial framework, and assumes that AHR is inseparable from working with the broader social, environmental, administrative, and economic context of heritage buildings/sites.Thus, the process includes diverse mechanisms that encourage the integration of adaptive reuse practices into urban and regional governance (e.g., commons-oriented governance, alternative concepts of ownership, circular economy via bottom-up adaptive reuse, etc.) while allowing heritage transformations to unfold.