The major socio-demographic transformations expose an increasing part of population to risks of long-term dependency, and consequently to be confined in a circumscribed physical space. Segregation can be realized at two different levels of severity, i.e. a lighter one (when movement of the individual is gradually reduced to the core of his own space of daily life), and a harder one (when the individual is transplanted in a totally extraneous space, as a nursing home or a prison). At both levels, even though with a graduated severity, confinement menaces the self of the individual, by corroding the two remaining built-in functions of social life: the ability to master the inner space of life, and the ability to save some sort of rooting in the surrounding world. Sustaining the life conditions of the new chronics, victims of harder or lighter segregations, implies thus complementary strategies: a well gauged design and modularisation of the interiors, and the permeation of the inner spaces into the outer world. The article reviews a number of cases of implementation of the two strategies, separately for lighter and harder confinements, and evidences qualities, limits and pitfalls of both, aiming to a cross-fertilization of the ideas in different domains.

Micheli, G. (2008). Controllare lo spazio interno, radicarsi nello spazio esterno. Come disegnare lo spazio del confinamento. MERIDIANA, 61, 91-113.

Controllare lo spazio interno, radicarsi nello spazio esterno. Come disegnare lo spazio del confinamento

MICHELI, GIUSEPPE ANNIBALE
2008

Abstract

The major socio-demographic transformations expose an increasing part of population to risks of long-term dependency, and consequently to be confined in a circumscribed physical space. Segregation can be realized at two different levels of severity, i.e. a lighter one (when movement of the individual is gradually reduced to the core of his own space of daily life), and a harder one (when the individual is transplanted in a totally extraneous space, as a nursing home or a prison). At both levels, even though with a graduated severity, confinement menaces the self of the individual, by corroding the two remaining built-in functions of social life: the ability to master the inner space of life, and the ability to save some sort of rooting in the surrounding world. Sustaining the life conditions of the new chronics, victims of harder or lighter segregations, implies thus complementary strategies: a well gauged design and modularisation of the interiors, and the permeation of the inner spaces into the outer world. The article reviews a number of cases of implementation of the two strategies, separately for lighter and harder confinements, and evidences qualities, limits and pitfalls of both, aiming to a cross-fertilization of the ideas in different domains.
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
Spazio vissuto; Cronicità; Confinamento
Italian
2008
61
91
113
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Micheli, G. (2008). Controllare lo spazio interno, radicarsi nello spazio esterno. Come disegnare lo spazio del confinamento. MERIDIANA, 61, 91-113.
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