Informality. A difficult qualification

Informality is a lemma with which we are currently trying to reunite and include all the collective behaviors that act, particularly in urban spaces, in the shadow of the legal procedures that define the relationships between citizens and institutions. These phenomena mainly represent, on the one hand, an unsatisfied or new and often innovative, social demand; on the other hand, these represent the will to activate and animate democratic collective processes from the bottom up. At the same time, these phenomena seem capable of offering a design contribution to the renewal of the social organization of space and formal institutional procedures.