{"id":5681,"date":"2026-05-13T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/citislab-at-the-states-general-of-the-santa-barbara-mining-trail-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:36:28","slug":"citislab-at-the-states-general-of-the-santa-barbara-mining-trail-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/citislab-at-the-states-general-of-the-santa-barbara-mining-trail-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"CITISLAB at the States General of the Santa Barbara Mining Trail 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-802177262\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1873494936\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<h1>Accessibility and inclusion: our experience in making landscape routes usable<\/h1>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1367442677\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1435748870\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1092\" height=\"1366\" src=\"https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/683777100_1389604806546714_6108575601033614546_n.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"Santa Barbara Way States General Poster - 2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/683777100_1389604806546714_6108575601033614546_n.jpg 1092w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/683777100_1389604806546714_6108575601033614546_n-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/683777100_1389604806546714_6108575601033614546_n-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/683777100_1389604806546714_6108575601033614546_n-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/683777100_1389604806546714_6108575601033614546_n-600x751.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1092px) 100vw, 1092px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1435748870 {\n  width: 39%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1204069937\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<p>On May 15 and 16, 2026, Ivana Passamani &#8211; Founder and President of CITISLAB &#8211; and Mario Redaelli &#8211; Vice-President of CITISLAB &#8211; will participate in the <strong>States General of the Santa Barbara Mining Trail 2026<\/strong>, the biannual event where institutions, researchers, practitioners and walkers discuss the present and future of one of Italy&#8217;s most extraordinary trails.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3>The context<\/h3>\n<p>The States General gather the main actors of the Way every two years to take stock of investments, territorial development, slow tourism and <strong>accessibility to environmental goods<\/strong>. Citislab&#8217;s presence confirms the role of the University of Brescia spin-off as a recognized interlocutor in the field of <strong>inclusive communication of<\/strong> environmental and cultural assets &#8211; consistent with the principles of <em>Design for All<\/em> and the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. <\/p>\n<p>The full program is available on the official website of the Santa Barbara Mining Trail: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camminominerariodisantabarbara.org\/stati-generali-del-cammino-minerario-di-santa-barbara\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.camminominerariodisantabarbara.org\/stati-generali-del-cammino-minerario-di-santa-barbara\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What is the Santa Barbara Mining Trail and why is accessibility a priority?<\/h3>\n<p>The <strong>Santa Barbara Mining Trail<\/strong> winds for more than 500 kilometers through southwestern Sardinia, traversing landscapes of exceptional morphological, historical and perceptual complexity. <strong>Inclusively<\/strong> communicating a landscape of such breadth and depth is one of the greatest challenges. <\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>inclusive tactile pathways<\/strong> and <strong>inclusive communication of cultural and environmental heritage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>The intervention<\/h3>\n<p>On May 15 at 12:10 p.m., as part of the session <em>&#8220;Accessibility and Inclusion: experiences that welcome everyone,&#8221;<\/em> Ivana Passamani and Mario Redaelli will illustrate how Citislab&#8217;s solutions &#8211; <strong>tactile panels<\/strong>, multifunctional totems and integrated <strong>sensory itineraries<\/strong> &#8211; can transform a walk into an experience that is truly usable by all.<\/p>\n<p>Citislab solutions for outdoor landscape paths include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Landscape sensory itineraries<\/strong> that provide narrative continuity and autonomy of enjoyment according to the principles of <em>Design for All<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Tactile landscape panels<\/strong>: tactile skyline transposition, bas-relief photographs, Braille legends, multilingual text<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Multifunctional totems<\/strong> with QR code and NFC, device charging, autonomous photovoltaic power supply<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow us to find out how it went: we will publish a report of the intervention soon.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-402328131\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1397458956\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"985\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Estratto_Stati-Generali-Programma-ok.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Excerpt from the program of speeches at the States General of the Santa Barbara Trail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Estratto_Stati-Generali-Programma-ok.jpg 985w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Estratto_Stati-Generali-Programma-ok-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Estratto_Stati-Generali-Programma-ok-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Estratto_Stati-Generali-Programma-ok-600x464.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1397458956 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-380296025\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner text-center\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button secondary\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"border-radius:10px;\">\n\t\t<span>Discover our solutions<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,181],"tags":[201,216,251,265,266,267,268,269,270,271],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-events","tag-design-for-all","tag-pannelli-tattili","tag-inclusive-communication","tag-accessibility","tag-sensory-itineraries","tag-inclusive-tourism","tag-mining-way","tag-tactile-landscape","tag-sardinia","tag-tactile-path"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5685,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions\/5685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}