Temporary Autonomous Zone

The project is envisioned as a discontinuous mapping of alternative housing models that exist in and around Rome.  This discontinuity traces the unique expansion of these models and their essentially transitory nature.  It is a rethinking of the concept of abusivismo, (understood here not only as unauthorized occupation of a space, but also as the transformation of the space itself, of its functions and aesthetic order) as generator of  détournement, and dérive and therefore incompatible with the illusion of city planning.  The dérive is wide-ranging: it can be an ex-factory transformed into cooperative housing, the arches of an ancient aqueduct transformed into the ceiling of a temporary settlement, or abandoned places in the suburbs that have been reconverted from non-places to campsites for nomadic communities.  The idea of the project is to “flush out” these spaces in order to place them on an ideal map.  This map closely examines the existence of a Rome that is more than a city imagined and planned by contractors and realtors.