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BOOK PRESENTATION
Lucina Caravaggi, Cristina Imbroglini
Socially Useful Landscapes. Treatment and Care as Devices for Design and Urban Transformation
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The Book Paesaggi socialmente utili gathers the results of a research aimed to innovate the spaces hosting social services devoted to supporting fragility and combating social exclusion.

The research, coordinated by Lucina Caravaggi and Cristina Imbroglini from the Department of Architecture and Design-Sapienza University of Rome in partnership with Regione Lazio, targets the architecture and landscape design as an effective tool able to foster the dialogue between different social service-oriented efforts, notably between long-term policies and pressing need interventions, capable to face with spaces, individuals, and specific needs.
This research, that aims to implement the themes of social inclusion in the context of Rome urban area, particularly deepens the innovation needs coming from the spaces devoted to supporting fragility (shelter communities, temporary housing, shelter facilities for disadvantaged adults, childcare shelter facilities, vocational training facilities, etc.).

The research theory, proved through detailed scientific and pluridisciplinary studies, through the comparison with international experiences and through extensive field research, is that these facilities cannot be considered as isolated or enclosed places (which the city must defend from with barriers and enclosures) but as social condensers, spaces of meeting and dialogue, where sociability feeds new ways of solidarity, innovative economies and resilient spaces.

The proposal regards the dissemination of these new “social condensers” through restoration and reclamation of under used, misused or abandoned spaces, notably dismantled healthcare, military or productive facilities.



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Info: Anna Lei – anna.lei@uniroma1.it; Luca Tentori: luca.usit@gmail.com


LINKS:
Paesaggi socialmente utili, the book: https://goo.gl/FHYJW7
Paesaggi socialmente utili, the research: https://goo.gl/fQSFc9
Progetto INSPIRE -  INnovative Services for fragile People in RomE: https://goo.gl/NxQsIy