Filed under: luoghi

Forbidden to sit! - Vietato sedersi!

EN - In Italy, many municipalities have introduced regulations that prohibit people from sitting and consuming not only alcohol, but also food, in streets. However, people continue to hang around and to meet "in piazza", transforming non-places in social spaces, and re-appropriating (or constructing) public spaces.

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IT - In Italia, molti comuni hanno introdotto regolamenti che vietano alle persone di sedersi per strada e di consumare non solo alcol, ma anche cibo. Ma la gente continua a passeggiare e ad incontrarsi "in piazza", trasformando non-luoghi in spazi sociali, e riappropriandosi (o costruendo) spazi pubblici.

Where the green ants dream

«The excommunication of territorial “divinities”, the deconsecration of places haunted by the story-spirit, and the extension of neutral thus deprived of legitimacy have marked the disappearance and fragmentation of the narrations that organized frontiers and appropriations»

De Certeau (Spatial Stories, cap. IX in The practice of everyday life)

In this trailer (and of course in the film), it is possible to see, besides the "deconsecration of places haunted by the holy spirit", the fragmentation of different stories referring to different “authorising references”. The social/cultural elaboration of the conflict creates in turn other stories and conflicts: finally, the court is expected to find a negotiated (spatial) story.