the endHuman flourishing secured through good government
  1. Liminal is an applied research organization cultivating coordination capacity in fragile territories

    Liminal is an applied research organization founding the discipline of Territorial State Craft: the art of securing human flourishing through good government. It stands on the conviction that places flourish or decline according to the state of the protocols they run on, and the belief that fragile territories are the grounds where this art will flourish first. To give birth to this discipline, Liminal is building its full stack across discourse, research and practice: developing its methods through place-based experimentation, forming its practitioners through applied learning, and assembling the network of first-movers that embeds methods and practitioners in real-world territorial transitions. Liminal is an institutional exercise in cathedral thinking: moving through short-term incentives and opportunities to build a lasting transformation in how European territories are lived and governed.

  2. Territorial State Craft

    A disciplinary refounding putting design, policy and technology at the service of territorial protocolization
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the meansTerritorial state craft advanced through a graduated set of instruments
  1. Challenges

    Bounded field experiments in territorial protocolization
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    • Autumn valley above Antey-Saint-André in Valle d’Aosta, with Lago di Lod, mist and snow-capped peaks

      Encouraging Reuse

      Identifier
      ERVDL2024
      Dates
      2024–2025
      Status
      Complete
      Partners
      Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyComune di FontainemoreComune di PerlozFondazione Compagnia di San PaoloGAL Valle d’Aosta
      Location
      FontainemorePerloz

      Reactivating built heritage in rural historic centers

  2. Labs

    Learning built into acts of territorial protocolization
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    • Four slide decks fanned out on a cream ground, the Valderice si move cover in front of a photograph of a Sicilian hill town

      Forum LEADER Giovani 2025

      EventWorkshop / 2025

      Applied training and territorial service with 38 participants under 35, hosted by four comunes in the GAL Elimos area of Sicily.

  3. Protocols

    Field-tested procedures packaged for territorial transfer
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      Building Reuse Survey Toolkit

      ArtifactInstrument

      Ginevra D’AgostinoAnnabel ConsilvioNicolás Delgado Alcega

      A participatory digital method for cataloguing building qualities, use, accessibility and conservation in small historic centers.

  4. Commentaries

    Space-bending cultural production
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    • Four slide decks fanned out on a cream ground, the Valderice si move cover in front of a photograph of a Sicilian hill town

      Grounding Territorial Data: Forum LEADER Giovani 2025

      ArtifactReport / 2025

      Nicolás Delgado AlcegaGabriele Pizzi

      Training activity report of the 2025 Forum LEADER Giovani: 281 mapped points of interest, 41 interviews and four communication strategies in four Sicilian comunes.

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  1. Membership

    Heterodox individuals building the territorial state craft niche
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the invitationEnter the realm of cathedral thinking
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