Confiscated Assets from the mafias are a controversial heritage in our democracies. They are transferred to the Heritage of the State as they are the result of mafias investments, and make up an articulate picture, consisting of households, industrial and commercial artifacts, farmlands. Their number is growing in Southern Italy, especially in Sicily, Calabria, and Campania, where the RUs of this project are located, so that the resulting scenario deserves a reflection questioning the processes to transform these confiscated assets into public assets, and on their multiple connections with the opportunities of territories and communities.
This research action is hence aimed at defining methods, tools, and strategies for the “valorization of assets confiscated from the mafias”, contributing to those “transition process” which are considered, both in Italy and at an international level, the most incisive actions to contrast the different forms of the organized crime. The research will focus on what useful tools and strategies can be provided during the variable time gap that spans between the legal allocation of an asset to State property and its subsequent designation for reuse.
This will provide a new standpoint on what we can call the “Third heritage”, a frail heritage, scarcely questioned and little-known. Reframing the confiscated criminal assets in a perspective where they evolve from illegal symbols to public assets, “with cultural, social, and educational content, enhancing the development of civic consciousness”, the research will in-depth investigate the possible theoretical, normative, formal, and value-related implications of these peculiar transition processes, as drivers of urban and territorial regeneration.
A multidisciplinary approach, interpretive and meta-design based, will lead to the return of a cognitive framework investigated beyond quantitative and normative data, through an experimental investigation of the different spatial and interscalar characters of the possible vocations of use, including through a plurality of narratives and imaginaries of assets.
The purpose will be the elaboration of a “Community Driven Platform Model”, to be implemented as an innovative tool for urban regeneration strategies, oriented to converting confiscated assets from symbols of illegality not just into public property, but into “Commons”, that is into inclusive places of civic reappropriation.
From a methodological standpoint, asset-related quantitative and qualitative survey and cataloging criteria will be defined and will be represented through the elaboration of a descriptive/interpretative “Operative Atlas”, consisting of multi-scale maps (Gis), spatial and functional diagrams, structures analysis, stakeholder survey, narrative imageries.
The research project will develop experimentations of “Co-design and Community action” for the transition of confiscated assets “Commons”, in a new relationship between ethics and aesthetics.
This research action is hence aimed at defining methods, tools, and strategies for the “valorization of assets confiscated from the mafias”, contributing to those “transition process” which are considered, both in Italy and at an international level, the most incisive actions to contrast the different forms of the organized crime. The research will focus on what useful tools and strategies can be provided during the variable time gap that spans between the legal allocation of an asset to State property and its subsequent designation for reuse.
This will provide a new standpoint on what we can call the “Third heritage”, a frail heritage, scarcely questioned and little-known. Reframing the confiscated criminal assets in a perspective where they evolve from illegal symbols to public assets, “with cultural, social, and educational content, enhancing the development of civic consciousness”, the research will in-depth investigate the possible theoretical, normative, formal, and value-related implications of these peculiar transition processes, as drivers of urban and territorial regeneration.
A multidisciplinary approach, interpretive and meta-design based, will lead to the return of a cognitive framework investigated beyond quantitative and normative data, through an experimental investigation of the different spatial and interscalar characters of the possible vocations of use, including through a plurality of narratives and imaginaries of assets.
The purpose will be the elaboration of a “Community Driven Platform Model”, to be implemented as an innovative tool for urban regeneration strategies, oriented to converting confiscated assets from symbols of illegality not just into public property, but into “Commons”, that is into inclusive places of civic reappropriation.
From a methodological standpoint, asset-related quantitative and qualitative survey and cataloging criteria will be defined and will be represented through the elaboration of a descriptive/interpretative “Operative Atlas”, consisting of multi-scale maps (Gis), spatial and functional diagrams, structures analysis, stakeholder survey, narrative imageries.
The research project will develop experimentations of “Co-design and Community action” for the transition of confiscated assets “Commons”, in a new relationship between ethics and aesthetics.