The Project deals with the question of Roma at a European scale. It looks at their struggle for living between enforced settlements - like “nomad camps” and “refugee camps” - illegal shantytown and dispersed shacks, from where they are often evicted by force.
By designing a competition program, the goal is to elaborate an urban, architectonical and social design strategy looking for possible ecological, cooperative, alternative housing solutions and their integration in the urban context.
Awareness about the geopolitical issue of Roma discrimination in Europe will be at the origin of the design research. It will focus on questions of settlement of Roma from ex Yugoslavia in Italy and Serbia in correlation to the legal, social and cultural aspects of their rights to leave,
return, and most of all, stay.
Starting from the comparison between the so-called “Balkan” and “Western” models (Piasere
2004), it will explore the problem of dwelling for Roma people today in Rome and Belgrade.
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