Architecture reloaded. People as activators of social and urban regeneration. Rethinking a “modern building” in Naples

Abstract

This paper is part of a research aiming to verifying if and how through the architecture project it is possible to consider some marginal social categories of our society as protagonists of innovation, using their specific cultural components as activators of the urban regeneration of some “residual” places where the concentration of these categories is more widespread. With the expression “architecture project” we intend a process that, starting from the construction of a demand, builds scenarios, tools and strategies of a “resilient” intervention, capable of “adapting” to the changes of our time. Our field of action are the suburbs, where people belonging to disadvantaged social classes have often been confined in a sort of macro-ghetto. These people are not considered as elements to be “recovered” from a cultural, social and urban point of view, but as activators of an “innovative” regeneration of the places in which they have been confined.