16 10 2017. We had our first off campus class this morning, visiting the MAAM, Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove
(Museum of the Other and Elsewhere) guided by Giorgio De Finis, creator of the project and
he know best knows the museum and its multifaceted cultural implications. Here you have the
mp3 of our visit, with the many
things that Giorgio told us, and I hope GG students shall soon contribute to
the visual part of this post uploading their
pics and videos collected during the visit. HERE you have another folder with pics!!
We have
learned the history of the squat,
how Giorgio came to know it through the walks around the Ring road organized by
Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade,
how this brought to the Rocket to the Moon in the SPACE METROPOLIZ
project, and eventually to the the MAAM project.
We could
talk about urban policies and politics, what is art and what is not. And most al all about squatting. We haven’t studied roman squatters yet, but their
relevance in the social fabric of a city like Rome should not be
underestimated.
Q1. What is the role of imagination in planning a space like
MAAM? Think how the real, social life of individuals depends on what they can
fantasize of, dream, hope or loath. Connect
what you have seen to what we have been discussing in class on “culture as
acquired and shared knowledge”.
