Accessibility and inclusion: our experience in making landscape routes usable
On May 15 and 16, 2026, Ivana Passamani – Founder and President of CITISLAB – and Mario Redaelli – Vice-President of CITISLAB – will participate in the States General of the Santa Barbara Mining Trail 2026, the biannual event where institutions, researchers, practitioners and walkers discuss the present and future of one of Italy’s most extraordinary trails.
The event will be held at the Pozzo Sella of the Monteponi Mine in Iglesias, a location of rare beauty: a 19th-century building that holds the industrial and mining memory of southwestern Sardinia.
The context
The States General gather the main actors of the Way every two years to take stock of investments, territorial development, slow tourism and accessibility to environmental goods. Citislab’s presence confirms the role of the University of Brescia spin-off as a recognized interlocutor in the field of inclusive communication of environmental and cultural assets – consistent with the principles of Design for All and the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The full program is available on the official website of the Santa Barbara Mining Trail: https://www.camminominerariodisantabarbara.org/stati-generali-del-cammino-minerario-di-santa-barbara/
What is the Santa Barbara Mining Trail and why is accessibility a priority?
The Santa Barbara Mining Trail winds for more than 500 kilometers through southwestern Sardinia, traversing landscapes of exceptional morphological, historical and perceptual complexity. Inclusively communicating a landscape of such breadth and depth is one of the greatest challenges.
Citislab, a spin-off of the University of Brescia, brings to the table the experience gained from more than 10 years of applied research on inclusive tactile pathways and inclusive communication of cultural and environmental heritage.
The intervention
On May 15 at 12:10 p.m., as part of the session “Accessibility and Inclusion: experiences that welcome everyone,” Ivana Passamani and Mario Redaelli will illustrate how Citislab’s solutions – tactile panels, multifunctional totems and integrated sensory itineraries – can transform a walk into an experience that is truly usable by all.
Citislab solutions for outdoor landscape paths include:
Landscape sensory itineraries that provide narrative continuity and autonomy of enjoyment according to the principles of Design for All
Tactile landscape panels: tactile skyline transposition, bas-relief photographs, Braille legends, multilingual text
Multifunctional totems with QR code and NFC, device charging, autonomous photovoltaic power supply
Follow us to find out how it went: we will publish a report of the intervention soon.
