Emerging models for landscape digital representation: comparing experiences towards the Digital Twin of an Italian inner alpine valley

Nowadays, the urban design, planning and environmental management of areas suffering territorial imbalances (namely the “peripheral”, “marginal” and “inner” areas) require exploiting the ever-increasing availability of real-time data about the natural and built environments, while promoting stakeholder engagement and empowering local communities, towards a network of truly “smart” systems. In this framework, the contribution briefly presents ongoing research projects and emerging practices that develop multidimensional models of urban and landscape systems, combining technological innovations and embedding socio-ecological perspectives. The goal of this overview is to explore the transferability of the idea of a territorial Digital Twin to the case of the Italian inner areas, conceptualising a dynamic and responsive model of the landscape, fed by an updated stream of open data, to support policy decision-making and participative planning. The case study for this experimentation is the Val di Sole, an Italian inner mountain valley in the Trentino-Alto Adige region, where to enhance the social-spatial resilience and the capacity to respond more sustainably to hazards.