Dall’emergenza alla transizione. Strategie e progetti per riabitare i “luoghi comuni”

Abstract

From emergency to transition

This article refers to an experience of research, teaching and third stream, developed by researchers from the Department of Architecture of Naples starting from the first Italian lockdown in spring 2020 until the following year, within a case study in the South of Italy. The reflection was born from the occasion of drafting the Integrated Sustainable Cities Program (PICS) of the Municipality of Casoria. The singular emergency perspective, in Italy largely managed through the denial of the use of open spaces and natural areas, in policies based on control, asked to designs to deal with the urgent need to allow the collective use of proximity spaces, without neglecting the connections with a structural and long-term transition process. The work carried out defines prefigurative designs, inserted in articulated multiscale strategies to re-inhabit ‘common places’ of the city of Casoria in total or partial abandonment. Architects and urban planners are ‘co-creators of physical space’, contributing in the activation of a transition process towards a more open, inclusive and sustainable city.

Keywords: transition, common places, public space