Abstract:
To address the theme of UnequalSpaces, I believe it may be useful to discuss the work carried out at my chair at Sapienza in the deeply marginalized peripheral eastern sector of the city of Rome. This territory lies just inside the Grande Raccordo Anulare — the city’s ring road — and is enclosed in a wedge between the Aniene river and Via Casilina to the north, extending along the bisector of this territory: Via Prenestina.
Our approach to the theme of unequalSpaces began with the presence of art, or more precisely with a very particular museum: the MAAM (Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove — Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere). This museum was born in an abandoned factory occupied by residents of diverse ethnicities, and it inspired a way of approaching urban regeneration — a method that combines art, architecture, and new-generation infrastructures. The project took the name UnLost Territories. It involved five doctoral assistants, approximately two hundred students from my design courses, and produced nine graduate theses. The entire work is presented in the book UnLost Territories, edited by the author together with Gaetano De Francesco, published by Vita Nostra Edizioni and available online.
