Primavera Romana - Walking for a U Turn: Common Design Practices for Social Change

Stalker's talk 'Primavera Romana - Walking for a U Turn: Common design practices for social change' was well attended with a full house at PLACE

Primaveraromana is a common design project activated by Stalker in order to generate and share social knowledge and awareness on urban changes. This by sharing, with more and more people, the experience of walking across and mapping the changes of the contemporary roman post urban territories. Primaveraromana is promoting the general states of citizenship together with local communities, associations, researchers and artists, in search of new practices, poetics and politics of coexistence in the emerging byondcity dimension.

Stalker used this case study to outline how walking is core to their practice as a way of networking and linking different sets of people involved in various forms of self organisation. They also presented the idea that participation in the walks is an active way to experience the city. Whilst on the walk you are not passive being led by a guide but you become an essential element of the walk and an active participant in debates about the city.