THE DESIGN PROPOSAL: from the first proposal to the starting exploration

First Starting Prosal:

DESIGN PROPOSAL OF MSP

My Design Proposal for the Major Study Project consists in a research about educational spaces like schools, museums, cultural centres or libraries that may help me to focus my attention on the didactic aspect of the space. Living in a big city like  Rome, I have seen different ways to face the problem of lack of a cultural link in a small neighbourhood in a big urban area and I would like to investigate on a possible approach to it.

AREA OF SPECIALISATION

For this project, I would like to focus on the sustainable aspects of the design.
So my area of specialisation could be Detailing or Spatial Design.

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Following considerations:

The first idea was about investigating on education, in general and then more in detail, to find a possible solution to lack of a good cultural level and a sense of community identity in neighbourhoods located in suburban areas. In this way, working with a series of public services like museums, schools and libraries it is possible to add those missing services that may change the community perception of where people live. I thought about important services of this kind because I live in what I could call a sprawl, that is typically just a residential area and that forces you to get the car even to buy a bottle of milk. So the perception that people have is living in an abandoned place with no services.

After these first riflections I’ve focus more on why I thought about researching on this issue and I have realized that this interest comes exactly from my personal experience. So I have decided to think more deeply about my main interests for this research (community, sense of identity and cultural improvement) and to investigate them analysing the city where I live. By doing so I understood that it is not just about cultural improvement and education but there are a lot of important issues to consider, dealing with community.

Also I have considered the experience in Copenhagen and all my impressions about the city that I have recorded in a video called Take Back the City. This video was about people and how they interact with the city, how the different architectures try to give the City back to its people, dealing with problems/issues like the water and people needs. The title “Take Back the CIty” comes from the name of a song by Snow Patrol in the album “A Hundred Million Suns” (2008) and I have decided to use it again as a subtitle of my research and as a continuum of my research trip.