Università Roma Tre

The laboratory develops the idea of ​​C.I.R.C.O. (Casa Indispensable for Civic Recreation and Hospitality) proposing a rethinking of the welcoming spaces for migrants, transients and mobile populations, starting from the reuse of the abandoned or underused Roman real estate assets. The goal is to facilitate access to these spaces for all the inhabitants of the city, opening them up to the collective construction of living, spaces for exchange and sociability. The project involves the development of indications for a welcoming policy, in a more mutual sense of hospitality, aimed at generating new forms of reciprocity and coexistence. The work is in direct contact with the local area and its communities.

The course intervene at the core of the city in a creative, interdisciplinary and participatory way. It offers lessons about the relationship between arts, architecture and the city, and direct experiences such as urban explorations, realization of micro-structures at the 1:1 scale, events and performative actions of a high civic and symbolic content, in complex social contexts, with special attention to the intercultural city and the migrant's hospitality.
We can explain the teaching approach goes in three main words: Arts Architecture City.
By Arts we mean the tools of knowledge that guide us towards the comprehension of the dynamics of contemporary urban transformations; poetic glances that are able to reveal those aspects of the city that are often invisible, and to provoke their potentialities.
We understand Architecture as a practice of reading and processing space, both in a physical and symbolic way. The course offers to the students an occasion to experiment the construction of an artifact in the city that is able to provoke social transformations.
We view the City as a contested space, not just in terms of the formal regulations that aim to rule its development but in terms of those new dwelling practices that seek to transform housing and neighborhoods, to change the use and meaning of public space, and to claim people’s right to the city.

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for an overview of the course topics and results of the last years see the course blog: https://laboratoriocirco.wordpress.com/

basic Bibliography:
- FRANCESCO CARERI, LORENZO ROMITO, CAMPUS ROM, ALTRIMEDIA EDIZIONI, MATERA 2017
- FRANCESCO CARERI, WALKSCAPES. EL ANDAR COMO PRÀCTICA ESTÉTICA / WALKING AS AN AESTHETIC PRACTICE, EDITORIAL GUSTAVO GILI, BARCELLONA 2002, TRAD IT. WALKSCAPES. IL CAMMINARE COME PRATICA ESTETICA, EINAUDI, TORIMO 2006.
-ANNA DETHERIDGE, SCULTORI DELLA SPERANZA. L'ARTE NEL CONTESTO DELLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE, EINAUDI 2012
- AA.VV., INTERNAZIONALE SITUAZIONISTA 1958-69, NAUTILUS/STAMPATRE, TORINO, 1994
- FRANCESCO CARERI, CONSTANT / NEW BABYLON, UNA CITTÀ NOMADE, TESTO & IMMAGINE, TORINO, 2001
- BRUCE CHATWIN, THE SONGLINES (1987), TRAD. IT. LE VIE DEI CANTI, ADELPHI, MILANO, 1988
- FRANCO LA CECLA., PERDERSI, L'UOMO SENZA AMBIENTE, LATERZA, BARI, 1988
- PETER LANG, A CURA DI., SUBURBAN DISCIPLINE, PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, NEW YORK, 1997
- ROSALIND KRAUSS, PASSAGES IN MODERN SCULPTURE, MIT PRESS, 1981, TR. IT. PASSAGGI, BRUNO MONDADORI, MILANO, 1998

The Laboratory proposes a didactic approach with projects for the reuse of disused buildings in Rome, which can be implemented in extensible and responsive time phases. It connects students with emerging communities by stimulating the search, on the investigated site, for actors, users, financing, circular economy triggers. Time and the human factor induce an indeterminate project by inducing the search for timelines, self-organised subjects, development phases, with the contribution of tools and methods for project evaluation. The module of apraisal and project evaluation, in this context, aims at integrating the fundamental themes of valuation by deepening some specific aspects, through the discussion of the most recent disciplinary developments in support of community projects and bottom up proposed, developed in the Workshop. Evaluation is part of the ideational-formative process of the reuse project, providing a logical and methodological support to the progressive and temporal choices, becoming an active component and generator of project alternatives. The evaluation contributes to the construction and choice of the preferable solution with respect to the context, to the complex framework of subjects (formal and informal) that make up the emerging communities that are involved in the progressive process of space and city transformation.
The evaluation aims to search for prefigured feasibility requirements, taking into account the multiplicity of variables involved (economic, social, environmental, financial, aesthetic-cultural, etc.) and the contribution of innovative and alternative economic models based on circularity, proximity, the values of use and non-use, common goods and the collaborative and solidarity-based economy. The module explores project evaluation tools according to different approaches linked to these economic paradigms, proposing methodologies and tools that allow the evaluation of effects and impacts perceived by the community and capable of stimulating the activation or triggering of resources, the development of the project and the process and the possible prediction of conflicts.
Specifically, the module consists of:
- Summary recapitulation of the fundamentals of appraisal: fundamental principles and appraisal procedures of fundamental and derived values. In-depth study of the main international estimation procedures. In-depth study of Total Economic Value: methodological framework and criteria for estimating use value and non-use values.
- Elements of economics: references to the theory of value, elements of cognitive and behavioural economics, hints at solidarity, collaborative and community and proximity economic forms.

On the fundamentals of appraisal:
- C. Forte, B. De' Rossi, "Principi di economia ed estimo", Etas Libri, Milano 1979.
- Appraisal Institute, “The Appraisal of Real Estate”, 15th ed., Appraisal Institute, Chicago, 2020.
On project evaluation:
- Bateman I. J. et al., “Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques: A Manual”, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002.
- MIT-Ministero delle Infrastrutture ed ei Trasporti. (2017). Linee guida per la valutazione degli investimenti in opere pubbliche. https://mit.gov.it
- Polelli, M. “Nuovo trattato di estimo”, Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
- Roscelli, R. (a cura di), Manuale di estimo, UTET, Torino, 2014.
Handouts and documentation provided within the Course.