Introduzione. Progettare nella crisi: coesione sociale e democrazia nelle città

[Machine translation] In this introduction, the two curators present the collective volume, designed and created to critically reflect on the SPEDD project (Experimentation of paths of deliberative democracy) and its results. The deliberative democracy paths proposed in the city of Novara were an experiment promoted by the Territory and Culture Association with the financial support of the Cariplo Foundation, together with other institutional entities of the city, including Caritas, the Municipality and the University of Eastern Piedmont, in full awareness of both the important challenges that the project proposes, improving the quality of civil life, strengthening democratic participation, nourishing social cohesion and the trusting relationship between citizens and institutions, both because of their considerable complexity and the consequent partiality and limitation of any possible intervention to address them.