Agrorà – Urban space of opportunities and cultural contamination
ATTENTION: THIS PROJECT IS THE RESULT OF A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS BETWEEN CTRL+Z AND DIFFERENT AGENTS. FOR A CORRECT UNDERSTANDING, I INVITE YOU TO LEARN ABOUT THE OTHER SUBJECTS DIRECTLY INVOLVED: RURAL BOXX (VENEZIA), LAMATRAKA (SEVILLA), D1618 (BUDAPEST).
In 2012 we were offered the opportunity to participate in the “Young Architects Program” 2012; we were invited by Rural Boxx who had been invited by Maxxi (National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome). This invitation forced us to reflect deeply on the model of city we wanted to propose, and of course on the vision of it that we have as architects, and at the same time as citizens, and for us it was a strong stimulus towards experimentation.
The AgRorà sociocultural laboratory is born from the synergy between a physical infrastructure and a cultural programme. Its main objective is to open spaces that offer training, production and promotion opportunities for social and cultural activities that already operate in the territory. In fact, this infrastructure is conceived as an instrument to bring together and channel these activities so that they can develop more easily, increase their strength and expand. A common space that at the same time promotes contact, synergies, collaborations and cultural contamination between the different groups for the creation of networks and common lines of work.
The AgRorà sociocultural laboratory is born from the synergy between a physical infrastructure and a cultural programme. Its main objective is to open spaces that offer training, production and promotion opportunities for social and cultural activities that already operate in the territory. In fact, this infrastructure is conceived as an instrument to bring together and channel these activities so that they can develop more easily, increase their strength and expand. A common space that at the same time promotes contact, synergies, collaborations and cultural contamination between the different groups for the creation of networks and common lines of work.
In the current social and economic situation, which also corresponds to a particular moment in the architectural movement, it no longer seems sufficient to propose a space that is reflected only in its physical articulation. We feel the need to extend the experimentation horizontally towards the social and cultural level to open it up to the incorporation of other personalities and to a citizenry linked, participative and co-responsible with the project. An informal community capable of coming alive and providing it with a meaning that transcends the limits of space and time in which the initiative is framed.
We are convinced of the importance of synchrony between physical spaces and the programs they are intended to host, and for this reason we have identified the need to distribute the available resources in parallel between these two realities, which cannot exist except in symbiosis.
The proposal is therefore for a cultural space (non-political, non-religious and non-commercial), in which scheduled activities alternate with activities organised through a participatory process and with opportunities for visibility which citizens will be invited to make free use of.
These spaces host activities, dynamics and proposals that are very different from each other, sometimes dissonant, but the vocation of the initiative is exactly that of turning each activity into an opportunity for contact, cooperation and contamination. Therefore, being spaces in which realities that could hardly coincide and interact outside of them can coexist, and putting them in contact is one of the goals that will constitute the greatest success of the proposal.
An urban laboratory that aims to assume a mediating role for coexistence, not only between completely different cultural expressions, but also between citizens belonging to different socio-economic groups, coming from distant urban areas, to create unusual, uncommon and spontaneous associations whose results are difficult to predict.
A program that involves children and housewives, with special attention to young people and adolescents, to create a space in which these activities coexist and promote the dialogue that is gradually being interrupted in contemporary society.
A program that involves children and housewives, with special attention to young people and adolescents, to create a space in which these activities coexist and promote the dialogue that is gradually being interrupted in contemporary society.
The idea is to temporarily transform the Maxxi courtyard into a meeting place between two realities that coexist every day, look at each other, touch each other: the museum space, with its atmosphere of homogeneous suspension, and the city, real, heterogeneous, chaotic, alive and in continuous evolution.
The idea is to temporarily transform the Maxxi courtyard into a meeting place between two realities that coexist every day, look at each other, touch each other: the museum space, with its atmosphere of homogeneous suspension, and the city, real, heterogeneous, chaotic, alive and in continuous evolution.
