Reviving Trails is a participatory documentation and mapping effort focused on increasing the visibility of community-maintained trails that have persisted for centuries in a landscape that is currently undergoing spontaneous rewilding. This includes photographic and geospatial data, points of interest, and each trail's history. Trails have been the fundamental mobility infrastructure of the area for centuries, as heavily traveled arteries connecting the towns with the productive valleys. Today they are still an essential component of the territory, connecting monumenti naturali, settlements and historic sites, and ensuring the accessibility of natural areas in between the towns for both day-to-day usage and slow tourism. Trails are a basic form of infrastructure that keeps the territory navigable, and making sure they stay open is a necessary aspect of any regeneration strategy for Monti Prenestini.

Apart from mapping and documenting the trails to make them more digitally accessible to citizens of the greater Rome area, Reviving Trails also seeks to uncover how these paths can be integrated within the wider system of slow mobility under development in the area of Monti Prenestini and Castelli Romani. The challenge departs from the thesis that a detailed understanding, documentation and advocacy of these trails can make them protagonists of the 2023–2027 public investment cycle of the area’s local action group.

Reviving Trails is at the intersection of a series of challenges such as Transitioning a Landscape and Digital Paths. The former is aimed at designing a multi-year landscape laboratory in the evolving arid prairies of Monti Prenestini that can encourage innovative regeneration strategies. The latter, along with Weaving Urban Data, focuses on collecting data and documenting small towns in ways that increase their digital visibility and facilitate their use by younger generations.