Authors:Paolo Baldeschi Pages: 6 - 13 Abstract: Making memory operational means calling it back into play and, when necessary, even into question: in this key, the article tries to identify, in Alberto Magnaghi’s rich and complex thought, some limits and criticalities that, in a future perspective, may represent as many ‘growing points’ for territorialist science and culture. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14960 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Zaida Muxí Martínez Pages: 20 - 27 Abstract: The gaze the city has traditionally been observed with is that of the flâneur, a man who walks the streets and observes urban movement and change from an external position. Such extraneousness and remoteness do not match the female experience, characterised instead by a gaze that unveils and empathises. Because of their gendered bodies and gender roles, women have never historically read, nor do they read the city as foreign and distant, but – holistically and empathically – in tangible terms of life, commitment, bodies. Through a historical overview of women and their proposals on the city, the article reflects on the different position women have taken in the construction of knowledge and in their approach to planning. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14696 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Maddalena Rossi Pages: 30 - 41 Abstract: The paper reflects about the relationship between space and the body affected by psychiatric vulnerability. In 1978, with Law no. 180, Italy, the first nation in the world, closed psychiatric hospitals and established a system of treatment for mental discomfort widespread in the territories. However, this system has not yet been implemented and, at the same time, especially as a result of the CoViD-19 outbreak, psychic vulnerability continues to grow. In this perspective, the paper questions what new links of care can be woven between territory and mental health. It presents a survey on how the relationship between bodies (with particular regard to the female ones) and madness developed in Italy, through the reading of spatial – architectural and urban – devices which, since the birth of the psychiatric discipline in the mid-nineteenth century, have been used over time to ‘manage’ mental illness. The reflections here proposed dialogue with urban planning, summoning it to deal with the concept of ‘city that care’, understood as a project of mental health and social cohesion based on a new ‘alliance among bodies’ and between them and territorial resources. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14458 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Maria Fierro Pages: 42 - 52 Abstract: In the frantic drive where the city extends into the world, and the world takes shape within the cities through migratory processes, we witness a multiplication of hybridisations, co-existences and conflicts. This gives way to kaleidoscopic landscapes in which, however, two polarities can be recognised: exclusivity and exclusion. It is the city of the rich and the city of the poor (Secchi 2013) that becomes more complex with ‘certain bodies [and] out of place’ multiplying the topographies of the other. This article, part of a PhD dissertation in progress, describes the case of Roma communities, and investigates ‘out-of-place’s’, emblems of urban exclusion generically called ‘Roma camps’, that corrode the idea of order and decorum. It describes, from an urban point of view, the phenomenon of encampment in its specification into a control device or an informal practice. Both such different urban configurations are investigated through a case study: a precise urban transect in the northern area of Naples in which both coexist, the informal settlement of Cupa Perillo and the Village of Solidarity in Secondigliano. This reveals latent conditions finding, in the informal configurations, alternative systems of rules that may suggest new spaces of utility to a project eschewing the narratives of a single history, the one that has produced control devices and urban expulsions. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14448 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Agnese Marcigliano, Stefania Ragozino, Marcella Corsi Pages: 53 - 72 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore the complex dynamics between issues of care, gender, and mobility, trying to reflect on the characteristics of an urban environment designed to meet the needs of women working in the care sector, regardless of their ethnicity, age, social status, physical condition, or sexual orientation and definition. By choosing the city of Brussels as an adequate case study we especially focus on the impact of the city’s mobility sector on the daily life of migrant female care workers, and of vulnerable groups more generally. This ongoing research is based on a theoretical framework (stemming from existing literature) from which we have extrapolated a set of parameters to structure the data collection (by interviews) and the theoretical and graphical elaborations. To address and respond to the multiple crises we are facing today, in our view it is crucial to call for a radical change in our urban design processes, directing our efforts toward implementing more inclusive urban models and practices. Our methodology gave us an opportunity to critically reflect on the possibilities that gender-driven urban policies and practices could open for our cities (and societies) towards a more sustainable and inclusive future for all. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14430 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Charmain Levy Pages: 73 - 83 Abstract: Inaugurated in March 2020 in Montevideo (Uruguay), the Plaza las Pioneras is a new minimalist public space in tribute of Uruguay’s feminists or “pioneers”. It is both a city managed public square and an adjacent building given by the city to an assembly of six feminist collectives to administrate and use for the common good. It a rare example of an urban feminist space and commons. This article argues that conditions specific to the political, social and temporal context in Montevideo led to the creation of the Plaza. The goal of this article is to analyse process around the creation and development of the Plaza as well as the actors involved, their role, dynamics and intentions. It also aims at using this case study to enhance the concept of feminist urban commons. This article is based on documentary research, 13 interviews and participatory observation that took place in November 2022 in Montevideo. It finds that the context specific conditions in which it emerged as well as the process led to its feminist nature and goals. This also shaped how it is used by feminist collectives to advance their own goals. This case study is important to understanding the production process of feminist urban spaces and commons, their contribution to the feminist movement and to a feminist city. It implies that leadership at the municipal level is key, as are horizontal partnerships between government and the feminist movement. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14310 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Elisa Butelli, Antonietta Izzo, Maria Visciano Pages: 84 - 92 Abstract: The theme of care, one of the most significant theoretical models in the late 20th century philosophical thought, is today at the core of national and international debate. The lack of attention towards care activities has generated a serious crisis that highlights the injustices intrinsic to social production processes and the importance of reproductive work. In this conceptual framework, care becomes a practice, a cultural and ethical value on which it is necessary to set up new policies focused on listening, inclusion, production of public space and of proximity democracies, which in turn generate places of care becoming common goods. In this light, the article describes two practices of care and common good which, although not yet fully developed, have given rise to urban relation, protection and sharing spaces: a collective space, iMorticelli in Salerno, aspiring to become a community landmark through collaborative processes and educational, cultural and research activities; a territorial relation and protection space around genderqueer issues, the LGBTQIA+ Centre in Prato. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14459 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Érica Martins, Valentina Novak , Lily Scarponi, Giulia Piazza Pages: 93 - 100 Abstract: This article explores the topic of co-housing from a gender perspective, considering that inhabiting is not a neutral, but a strongly gendered practice. The aim of the study is to describe some co-housing practices in order to observe how the design of spaces and the organisation of daily life can influence the distribution of care and reproductive labour. To this end, four experiences are analysed, with the aim of illustrating the multiplicity of configurations that co-housing can have: two outside (La Borda and Sargfabrik) and two inside Italy (Borgo Ponte Canale and Co-housing Le Torri) focusing on aspects such as the origin, the occurrence of participatory processes, the flexibility of spaces, and the forms of ownership and use of the property. It points out how feminist movements have played an essential role in the housing debate, bringing out the central role of collective spaces and interpersonal relations as fundamental elements for an equal sharing of care work. This insight into the practice of co-housing, given its characteristics and intrinsic potential, may thus represent a fertile ground for interdisciplinary experimentation and investigation, capable of driving us towards housing scenarios generating a greater equity. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14462 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Francesca Brunori, Virginia Musso Pages: 101 - 109 Abstract: By adopting a conception of care that transcends the reproductive and domestic dimensions to invest the public and political ones, the article aims to highlight the relevance of care practices in feminist commoning experiences, in order to demonstrate how they can represent an alternative way of inhabiting public and private space, subverting the capitalist system that increasingly erodes the right to the city. After a critical discussion of the systemic characteristics that define contemporary cities - dominated by visions and logics that increase the complexity of sharing spaces and accessing primary resources - the experiences of commoning are presented. These experiences, conceived as the territorialisation of care practices, allow us to imagine strategies to respond to the current crisis also through the creation of threshold places, in which the private and public dimensions are hybridised. In this context, the experiences of Lucha y Siesta and Plaza Las Pioneras, located in a transformative horizon that appeals to the need and not the demand for space, are taken as models for re-inhabiting the city in alternative ways, based on social and economic equity, as well as interdependence and networking. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14901 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
Authors:Teodoro Andrisano, Monica Bolognesi Pages: 112 - 122 Abstract: Forests, primary components of natural ecosystems, are an essential part of territorial heritage, a common good with an inalienable value of existence. Due to their multifunctional character and their ability to provide ecosystem and eco-territorial services, they are a key element in strategies to counter climate change. For this reason, it is necessary to systematise the knowledge about their features, potential and transformations. The experimentation performed in the Majella National Park with the creation of a forestry portal, the structure, functioning, contents and updating methods of which are described in this article, is an important step forward for the development of active protection policies according to an eco-territorial approach. The system created, replicable in other contexts, can represent a valid support for planning and the elaboration of territorial projects aimed at self-sustainability. PubDate: 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.36253/sdt-14202 Issue No:Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023)
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