Creating spaces that do not impose identities does not mean abandoning all structure or intention, but rather preventing architecture from treating roles, customs and subjectivities as natural or universal givens. On the contrary, it means designing environments capable of accommodating differences without normalising them, leaving room for interpretation and personalisation. In this sense, space becomes an open system, which does not unambiguously prescribe who the user should be, how they should behave, or what way of life they should embody. Enabling the emergence of plural, situated and shared forms of living also implies recognising that living is a dynamic and relational process, which changes over time and according to social, cultural and material contexts. The project thus takes on an ethical and political dimension: it does not produce closed solutions, but conditions of possibility; it does not define identities, but supports practices; it does not organise space around an abstract subject, but around a multiplicity of presences and relationships. From this perspective, architecture and design become practices of mediation, capable of supporting coexistence, conflict and transformation, contributing to an idea of space as a common good and as an infrastructure of relationships.

Vitrano, R.M., Catalano, A. (2025). Una visione inclusiva e plurale - L’architettura tra ambiguità e trasformazione. In S.M. Cacioppo, R.M. Vitrano (a cura di), LINGUISTICA E ARCHITETTURE DI SENSO - Contributi per la parità di genere (pp. 61-68). Napoli : Luciano Editore.

Una visione inclusiva e plurale - L’architettura tra ambiguità e trasformazione

Vitrano, Rosa Maria
Membro del Collaboration Group
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2025-01-01

Abstract

Creating spaces that do not impose identities does not mean abandoning all structure or intention, but rather preventing architecture from treating roles, customs and subjectivities as natural or universal givens. On the contrary, it means designing environments capable of accommodating differences without normalising them, leaving room for interpretation and personalisation. In this sense, space becomes an open system, which does not unambiguously prescribe who the user should be, how they should behave, or what way of life they should embody. Enabling the emergence of plural, situated and shared forms of living also implies recognising that living is a dynamic and relational process, which changes over time and according to social, cultural and material contexts. The project thus takes on an ethical and political dimension: it does not produce closed solutions, but conditions of possibility; it does not define identities, but supports practices; it does not organise space around an abstract subject, but around a multiplicity of presences and relationships. From this perspective, architecture and design become practices of mediation, capable of supporting coexistence, conflict and transformation, contributing to an idea of space as a common good and as an infrastructure of relationships.
2025
Settore CEAR-08/C - Progettazione tecnologica e ambientale dell'architettura
Vitrano, R.M., Catalano, A. (2025). Una visione inclusiva e plurale - L’architettura tra ambiguità e trasformazione. In S.M. Cacioppo, R.M. Vitrano (a cura di), LINGUISTICA E ARCHITETTURE DI SENSO - Contributi per la parità di genere (pp. 61-68). Napoli : Luciano Editore.
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