The Passport is proof of your citizenship and makes everyone feel part of the great workshop that is Matera 2019.

It is closely associated with the concept of temporary citizenship, so that your experiences this year in Matera and Basilicata make you feel you are contributing to a new idea of community and that the focus is no longer on the place but on the community that re-energises the place (this is also the aim of projects like People Places and Purposes that radically alter the idea of centre and periphery).

This is why we have written a decalogue, ten positive rules, on the meaning and on a new way of inhabiting places through their communities, so that everyone becomes an active part of a regeneration process of towns, cities and the local area.

This is a new way of looking at tourism (often seen as an increasingly invasive and gentrifying element) as a model for new social relations, based on the ability to take a more pro-active approach to the continuous migrations that life imposes on us.