The interrupted city: divisione e connessioni

Abstract

'Interrupted city' is a traveling cultural initiative that openly takes its cue from the 'Roma Interrotta' conceived by Piero Sartogo as far back as 1978. In its own way it is a tribute to the inventor of that cultural project based on the Great Plan of Rome by Giambattista Nolli . In 2017 Tom Rankin, Paolo Pineschi and Alessandro Camiz founded this proposal with the aim of addressing a specific design theme, that of the interrupted city. Starting from the city of Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, the itinerant seminar took place in different locations, in order to extend the question of division to the more inclusive theme of the interruption; that interruption that from the modern onwards has characterized the growth of cities, an organic interruption to the modern crisis, an interruption that is clearly read in the urban fabrics of our cities.