Main Research Conclusion:
The fear triggered by the media representation of the project area as “Drug Park” overshadows all the local environmental problems
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Main Research Conclusion:
The removal of the drug users from the Turin city centre which coincided with the 2006 Olympics changed the perception of safety in the project area
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Main Research Conclusion:
In the past social systems like the illegal allotments kept the connections between local actors alive. The place has been disconnected through top down design actions.
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Main Research Conclusion:
The current use of the park has been entirely determined by the a series of external factors that suggest its future dynamics
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Main Research Conclusion:
The locked loops of local policy and money perpetuate a situation of local abandonment which feeds illegal activities and social & political exclusion.
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This is a short summary of the final presentation given at the summer school:
1. Reality of the park [CONTEXT], a tourist’s point of view
we worked in an area called Parco stura, or toxic park, or oxygen park, or actually we don’t know what park or is it a park
the place is a Tarkovsky-like zone area
characteristicpost-indutrial [...]
People
-cycle of users and money (tax to drugs culture) shows how tax payers are paying and that many people are affected, not only those in and around the park
-visualising the cycle and its different constituting parts by means of rings
History future
-social systems kept the connections between actors alive (allotments, overgrowth)
-the place is disconnected through design [...]
People group:
plotted out where they spoke with local people and what about
learned tha people are moving away from the area, that they disregard the park and in eneral have no feelings about what happens in it
a lot of people just work here or use the eastern side of the park (Parco Coletta)
allotment holders: only recetly [...]
