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title: "Monti Prenestini"
type: place
locale: en
url: https://liminalfutures.com/places/monti-prenestini
summary: "A depopulated Apennine territory east of Rome that has been a recurring Liminal field site since 2022."
---

# Monti Prenestini

Type: place
Organizations: Liminal
Places: Capranica Prenestina; Castel San Pietro Romano; Rocca di Cave
Labs: Liminal Lab Monti Prenestini
Protocols: Fruit-tree mapping toolkit; Trail documentation and publishing method
Commentaries: Encouraging Reuse in Rural Italy: A case study implementing new frameworks to collect local data and understand feasible reprogramming strategies in Guadagnolo; Dal Lazio alla Valle d’Aosta novità, progetti e laboratori guidati da architetti molto speciali; Liminal, “Mappare l’ignoto per colmare i divari digitali”; Town and Country: Liminal Assembly in Monti Prenestini; Akropolis Challenge; Shaping the Ground; Liminal nei Monti Prenestini 2022–2023: dalla raccolta dei dati a una nuova identità territoriale; Al via le attività del progetto "Encouraging reuse" | Dal Lazio alla Valle d'Aosta turismo rurale e funzionale; Reviving Trails: Participatory trail mapping for the promotion of proximity tourism; Shaping the Ground: Mapping the fruit tree biodiversity of transitioning landscapes; Transitioning a Landscape: The potential of Living Labs and Land-Based Labs in the arid prairies of Monti Prenestini; Weaving Urban Data: How participatory mapping can lay the foundations for Smart Villages

## Summary

A depopulated Apennine territory east of Rome that has been a recurring Liminal field site since 2022.

## Work

Monti Prenestini is one of the territories where Liminal has worked longest. Labs, Challenges and later landscape experiments have used the same ridge of small comunes as a continuous field: first to understand the territory, then to test methods that could travel.

## Outputs

- Applied here Fruit-tree mapping toolkit
- Applied here Trail documentation and publishing method
- Discussed in Encouraging Reuse in Rural Italy: A case study implementing new frameworks to collect local data and understand feasible reprogramming strategies in Guadagnolo
- Discussed in Dal Lazio alla Valle d’Aosta novità, progetti e laboratori guidati da architetti molto speciali
- Discussed in Liminal, “Mappare l’ignoto per colmare i divari digitali”
- Discussed in Town and Country: Liminal Assembly in Monti Prenestini
- Discussed in Akropolis Challenge
- Discussed in Shaping the Ground
- Discussed in Liminal nei Monti Prenestini 2022–2023: dalla raccolta dei dati a una nuova identità territoriale
- Discussed in Al via le attività del progetto "Encouraging reuse" | Dal Lazio alla Valle d'Aosta turismo rurale e funzionale
- Discussed in Reviving Trails: Participatory trail mapping for the promotion of proximity tourism
- Discussed in Shaping the Ground: Mapping the fruit tree biodiversity of transitioning landscapes
- Discussed in Transitioning a Landscape: The potential of Living Labs and Land-Based Labs in the arid prairies of Monti Prenestini
- Discussed in Weaving Urban Data: How participatory mapping can lay the foundations for Smart Villages

## Related

- Operates here [Liminal](/organizations/liminal)
- Contains [Capranica Prenestina](/places/capranica-prenestina)
- Contains [Castel San Pietro Romano](/places/castel-san-pietro-romano)
- Contains [Rocca di Cave](/places/rocca-di-cave)
- Hosted [Liminal Lab Monti Prenestini](/labs/monti-prenestini)