Ai Lavio Condominio

Participating as a member of La Rivoluzione delle Seppie, a collective dedicated to spatial and social restoration in the Calabria region in Southern Italy, the collective has created the exhibition Ai Lavio Condominio during ArchWeek 2023 in Milan. Designed by Sara Ricciardi Studio and installed in the courtyard of a social housing unit on Corso 22 Marzo, Ai Lavio Condominio strived to narrate the dynamics of the social housing unit and the notion of spatial reappropriation. Working as a collective, La Rivoluzione delle Seppie engaged with the residents and created a workshop site within its grounds, where elements of the exhibition were constructed with its inhabitants. Engaging with its inhibitors and mediating the purpose of the project, what was once an underused and marginal courtyard was reactivated to host a series of events that was co-curated with and by the members of the social housing unit.
Ai Lavio Condominio was shaped thanks to the Glocal Tools methodology that La Rivoluzione delle Seppie conceptualised, which centers the margins and fosters relationships capable of reshaping the thresholds between public and private, central and peripheral. As Ahmed, one of the young participants in the project aptly put it: "It’s friends who make a home." Whether at the margins or the center, it is relationships that generate space.