This paper is aimed at considering the impact of art and architecture on building social cohesion, identity and integration by means of so-called resistant works of art and architecture. These complex works of art attempt to urban retrieval and give added-value to peculiar communities like the detention ones. The project sees in artistic creation a central role in the redevelopment of places and functions of collective living and relies on its dynamic production the opportunity to strengthen and reactivate social ties through the testing of new active citizenship policies. Such resistant works, real civil and conscious act, recall the strong social role of architecture and art, celebrating the will to resist fascism, injustice, speculation, wild economy, ignorance, barbarism and environmental devastation. In Italy there are places of great civic and social value designed by civic architecture, which produce and grow a culture of the quality of everyday urban life. Works of architects and more or less re-known artists, from World War II to today, capable of a practical effect in our daily lives. These are buildings, spaces, landscapes, such as the work for the city of Urbino by Giancarlo De Carlo, an essential precursor of participation in architecture, or the Olivetti Factory in Pozzuoli by Luigi Cosenza, inaugurated in order to create a redemption tool and not a suffering device. Another important example is the Garden of the Meetings, the latest architectural project signed in prison by Giovanni Michelucci, perhaps the greatest Italian architect of the '900. It is located within the prison complex of Sollicciano, in Florence and is dedicated, first, to the meetings between prisoners and their families. In addition, the re-arrangement of the Rice Mill of San Sabba in Trieste, the only lager with crematorium in Italian territory, and before, factory. The monument, built by Romano Boico, was inaugurated in 1975. I wish to recall also Itavia Museum in Bologna, with the evocative installation by Christian Boltanski dedicated to the tragedy of Ustica. A more recent case is the second imprisonment House of Milan- Bollate, founded in 2001 as an institute for advanced treatment aimed at social and employment recovery of the detainees. Within the project New Clients of the Olivetti Foundation, was entrusted to the artist Francesco Simeti the task of designing a play area within the kindergarten of the prison, with a structure that will remind a house of cards and the Jungle Gym.

Resistant architectures and arts to build active citizenship

VERDI, LAURA
2016

Abstract

This paper is aimed at considering the impact of art and architecture on building social cohesion, identity and integration by means of so-called resistant works of art and architecture. These complex works of art attempt to urban retrieval and give added-value to peculiar communities like the detention ones. The project sees in artistic creation a central role in the redevelopment of places and functions of collective living and relies on its dynamic production the opportunity to strengthen and reactivate social ties through the testing of new active citizenship policies. Such resistant works, real civil and conscious act, recall the strong social role of architecture and art, celebrating the will to resist fascism, injustice, speculation, wild economy, ignorance, barbarism and environmental devastation. In Italy there are places of great civic and social value designed by civic architecture, which produce and grow a culture of the quality of everyday urban life. Works of architects and more or less re-known artists, from World War II to today, capable of a practical effect in our daily lives. These are buildings, spaces, landscapes, such as the work for the city of Urbino by Giancarlo De Carlo, an essential precursor of participation in architecture, or the Olivetti Factory in Pozzuoli by Luigi Cosenza, inaugurated in order to create a redemption tool and not a suffering device. Another important example is the Garden of the Meetings, the latest architectural project signed in prison by Giovanni Michelucci, perhaps the greatest Italian architect of the '900. It is located within the prison complex of Sollicciano, in Florence and is dedicated, first, to the meetings between prisoners and their families. In addition, the re-arrangement of the Rice Mill of San Sabba in Trieste, the only lager with crematorium in Italian territory, and before, factory. The monument, built by Romano Boico, was inaugurated in 1975. I wish to recall also Itavia Museum in Bologna, with the evocative installation by Christian Boltanski dedicated to the tragedy of Ustica. A more recent case is the second imprisonment House of Milan- Bollate, founded in 2001 as an institute for advanced treatment aimed at social and employment recovery of the detainees. Within the project New Clients of the Olivetti Foundation, was entrusted to the artist Francesco Simeti the task of designing a play area within the kindergarten of the prison, with a structure that will remind a house of cards and the Jungle Gym.
2016
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