Narrating a Territory is a service design and story-telling initiative oriented towards stimulating economic activities in Monti Prenestini with potential for long-term impact. The project follows the research done through Discover Monti Prenestini, and aims to further understand how the way we describe a territory can create new ways of engaging it. This is based on the premise that story-telling can create virtuous trajectories in line with stakeholder aspirations, particularly in places that suffer from depopulation and disinvestment. The challenge invites members to engage these issues in relation to concrete initiatives beginning to take place in the area. 

Narrating a Territory will be one of four challenges that deal with the creation of a slow mobility network in Monti Prenestini and Castelli Romani. Building off the documentary work performed during Reviving Trails, members will meet with local partners that are trying to facilitate new ways for people in the larger metropolitan area of Rome to engage existing agricultural and enogastronomic activities, environmental features and underappreciated heritage sites. The challenge questions the degree to which discovery of the territory can incentivize longer-term rural-urban economic relationships. It will employ service design methodologies to analyze the slow mobility project, imagine the user experience, test its viability at the scale of Monti Prenestini and draw out the service delivery process. The Challenge will conclude with a low-fi prototype of a key service feature that visualizes possibilities for the project partners from narrative and functional perspective. 

Narrating a Territory will lay the foundations for three successive challenges focused on stakeholder engagement along the slow mobility network, digitalization of paths and tactical activations to encourage user behaviors. 

Given that this challenge will occur online, members are encouraged to attend the assembly or participate in another challenge with time on the ground in Monti Prenestini to get a sense of the territory.