The first public meeting organised by the Roma050 Workshop – The Future of a World Metropolis‘, promoted by Roma Capitale and coordinated by Architect Stefano Boeri, entitled ‘Three Views of Rome: Above, Through, Below’, took place.
The two days, focused on listening to and collecting ideas and projects from the worlds of institutions and civil society, kicked off with the opening meeting attended by the Mayor of Roma Capitale Roberto Gualtieri, the Councillor for Urban Planning Maurizio Veloccia the President of the Capitoline Assembly, Svetlana Celli, the President of Palaexpo, Marco Delogu, the architect Stefano Boeri and the 10 designers that make up the Laboratory(Matteo Costanzo and Eloisa Susanna, Giorgio Azzariti, Giulia Benati, Jacopo Costanzo, Margherita Erbani, Carmelo Gagliano, Susan Isawi, Riccardo Ruggeri, Marco Tanzilli).
The two-day programme included an articulated schedule of meetings hosted in the spaces made available by the MACRO museum and divided into two sections: “Visions and Cities” and “Ideas for Rome“.
The “Visions and Cities” section hosts the voices of protagonists of Italian and international culture who will bring their scientific and creative contributions. These include the American sociologist and writer Richard Sennett, astrophysicist Ersilia Vaudo, Chief Diversity Officer of the ESA in Paris; Antonio Spadaro, undersecretary of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education; architecture historian and Princeton professor Beatriz Colomina, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Vittorio Lingiardi and the artistic director of the Quadriennale Gian Maria Tosatti.
The ‘Ideas for Rome’ talks, organised according to three different perspectives on the city – ‘above Rome‘, ‘through Rome‘, ‘below Rome‘ – and coordinated by the designers of the Laboratory, will instead gather, through different angles and competences, the points of view, experiences and proposals of an initial group of representatives from the world of local institutions, Presidents of the Municipalities and Council Commissions, professional associations, academia and civil society. Essential contributions not only to draw up a large and inclusive mapping of contemporary Rome, but also to imagine its future.
During the opening meeting, a summary of the research work undertaken in the first four months of activity was presented.
The initial phase was dedicated to the mapping of all the transformation interventions taking place in the city of Rome and has as its point of arrival the realisation of an Atlas of Transformations, a geographic tool for the collection of the projects underway today and in the coming years.
The Atlas delves into each use of space by informing about the transformation underway, its strategic logic and the funding programme of which it is a part.
The Atlas of Transformations will be followed, in the coming months, by the production of a “Fresco of Strategies“, a device/tool capable of facilitating the simultaneous reading of all the spaces, strategies and funding programmes involved. At the end of the process, the production of a ‘Charter for the City‘ is planned, that is, a final document, consisting of ‘a system of principles’ as necessary elements of an urban government policy, to support, through practices and indications, the implementation of the strategy for the city.
