Contributions to “reform” the public space. The case of analysis of Piazza Vittorio in Rome. This paper presents the empirical and methodological results of two “experiments” of performances carried out in the garden Nicola Calipari, in Piazza Vittorio (Rome). Field research, which was the basis of the experiments, has made it possible to observe the architectural structure, natural heritage, social and cultural activities, frequentation rates and the way in which the garden is traversed. The first performance staged consisted of a collective game, open to public participation and co-built on site with students of the “zero lesson for sustainability” of the University. By arranging a circle, people mimicked elements and aspects emerging from the observation of the search field, leaving everyone/e to guess. In the second performance, instead, some alternative routes to cross the garden have been designed. Two female bodies have redesigned the usual trajectories, followed by those who use the park, using some movement techniques learned from the practice of the Art du déplacement. This discipline, in fact, by making creative movements and materiality of space dialogue, is able to highlight “conventions and power dynamics present in the architectural, social and cultural models inscribed in places, resulting from the work of designers and […] daily reproduced by the predominant action of those who cross it” (Genoa, 2016). The question that guided the experiments is whether the performances, experienced in the outdoor public space, can disturb the balances that regulate the city in everyday life, intriguing or activating reactions and processes of re-meaning of the territory. If performances can be an instrument through which to question and stimulate the territory, what are the balances that regulate the city in everyday life? Are they sustainable? Do they guarantee the right to the city and/or its domain?
Questo contributo presenta i risultati empirici e metodologici di due “sperimentazioni” di perfor mance realizzate nel giardino Nicola Calipari, a Piazza Vittorio (Roma). La ricerca sul campo, alla base delle sperimen tazioni, ha permesso di osservare la struttura architettonica, il patrimonio naturale, le attività sociali e culturali, i ritmi di frequentazione e le modalità di attraversamento del giardino. La prima performance messa in scena ha consistito nella realizzazione di un gioco collettivo, aperto alla partecipazione del pubblico e co-costruito in loco con studenti e studen tesse della “lezione zero per la sostenibilità” dell’Ateneo. Predisponendo un cerchio, le persone hanno mimato elementi e aspetti emersi dall’osservazione del campo di ricerca, lasciando a tutti/e la possibilità di indovinare. Nella seconda performance, invece, sono stati ideati alcuni percorsi alternativi per attraversare il giardino. Due corpi femminili hanno ridisegnato le traiettorie usuali, percorse da chi fruisce del parco, sfruttando alcune tecniche di movimento apprese dalla pratica dell’Art du déplacement. Questa disciplina, infatti, facendo dialogare movimenti creativi e materialità dello spazio, è capace di evidenziare “convenzioni e dinamiche di potere presenti nei modelli architettonici, sociali e culturali inscritti nei luoghi, derivanti dall’opera di progettisti e […] quotidianamente riprodotte dall’agire predominante di chi lo attraversa” (Genova, 2016). La domanda che ha guidato le sperimentazioni è se le performance, sperimentate nello spazio pubblico outdoor, possano perturbare gli equilibri che regolano la città nel quotidiano, incuriosendo o attivando reazioni e processi di ri-significazione del territorio. Se le performance possono costituire uno strumento attraverso cui interrogare e stimolare il territorio, quali sono gli equilibri che regolano la città nel quotidiano? Sono sostenibili? Garantiscono il diritto alla città e/o il suo dominio?
Eliane Thérèse Dumont, I., Oddi, G., Pasqualetti, D. (2025). Contributi per “riperformare” lo spazio pubblico. il caso di analisi di Piazza Vittorio a Roma. In Geografia e patrimonio (pp.517-524). Firenze : Società di Studi Geografici.
Contributi per “riperformare” lo spazio pubblico. il caso di analisi di Piazza Vittorio a Roma
Giulia Oddi
;Daniele Pasqualetti
2025-01-01
Abstract
Contributions to “reform” the public space. The case of analysis of Piazza Vittorio in Rome. This paper presents the empirical and methodological results of two “experiments” of performances carried out in the garden Nicola Calipari, in Piazza Vittorio (Rome). Field research, which was the basis of the experiments, has made it possible to observe the architectural structure, natural heritage, social and cultural activities, frequentation rates and the way in which the garden is traversed. The first performance staged consisted of a collective game, open to public participation and co-built on site with students of the “zero lesson for sustainability” of the University. By arranging a circle, people mimicked elements and aspects emerging from the observation of the search field, leaving everyone/e to guess. In the second performance, instead, some alternative routes to cross the garden have been designed. Two female bodies have redesigned the usual trajectories, followed by those who use the park, using some movement techniques learned from the practice of the Art du déplacement. This discipline, in fact, by making creative movements and materiality of space dialogue, is able to highlight “conventions and power dynamics present in the architectural, social and cultural models inscribed in places, resulting from the work of designers and […] daily reproduced by the predominant action of those who cross it” (Genoa, 2016). The question that guided the experiments is whether the performances, experienced in the outdoor public space, can disturb the balances that regulate the city in everyday life, intriguing or activating reactions and processes of re-meaning of the territory. If performances can be an instrument through which to question and stimulate the territory, what are the balances that regulate the city in everyday life? Are they sustainable? Do they guarantee the right to the city and/or its domain?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


