La beauté est dans la rue

Abstract

Under the pavement we can find precious laboratories of resistance and vulnerability, territories of unknown occupations and wild niches ignored, ludic spaces that do not need formal equipment. Permeable places, physically and symbolically, they reveal a ground capable of enriching an urban fabric too confined by predefined categories and the value of spaces that the city has not yet filled, as well as the mutations that accompany any place that aspires to fulfil a spatial narrative. Discovering the thickness of the soil will be also an elemental theme to the involvement of citizens, after all the city’s experts, in the discussion of alternative practices to improve their daily lives.