Conflicts and Sustainable Planning: Peculiar Instances Coming from Val D’agri Structural Inter-municipal Plan

This paper examines experiences coming from the process of Inter-Municipal Structural Plan focussing on the evidences coming from conflicts assessment among major stakeholders’ groups compared with the strategic development framework which represents the core of the plan. The composition of these conflicts makes the case study an example of the complexity challenge that we faced through a rational planning approach. Conflicts as factors of liquid society: we link our research in planning disciplines to this social debate because when we identified conflicts among stakeholders and social groups in a territory demanding for planning and more effective governance, we assume these factors as an indicator of the liquefaction of local community bringing to the instability of agreements among the components of that society. Among the proposed planning strategies, we discuss the Energy Museum project as the most characterizing context based perspective for the study area addressing the request to increase the knowledge and shared awareness on energy sector in order to enhance community awareness and reinforce social agreement in the area.