Nuovi condensatori di socialità urbana

Socially useful landscapes” gathers the results of a research work carried on by DIAP Department of Architecture and Design, “Sapienza” University of Rome for the Regione Lazio, and committed to social marginalization issues or, more specifically, to the spaces and the stakeholders involved into the counter-actions to stop its rise. The endorsed hypothesis is that facilities dedicated to sheltering individuals in needs, or committed to social and professional rehabilitation of struggling minors , youths and adults can no longer be considered as enclosed or isolated spaces but rather as actual social condensers, spaces of meeting and dialogue, where sociability feeds new ways of solidarity, innovative economies and resilient spaces. The contribution summarizes the outcomes of the research and aims to explain the reasons that pushed a university research group made up by architects, urban designers, landscape designers and photographers to tackle these issues, reasons that go beyond the personal civic commitment of each one of them.