Identités antiques en question
07.07.2025 H16:30-17:30
08.07.2025 H18:30-19:30
Free entrance
07.07.2025 H16:30-17:30
08.07.2025 H18:30-19:30
Free entrance
Keynotes organized in collaboration with the University of Geneva and the University of Neuchâtel as part of the second session of the Summer School „Identités antiques en question, Rome comme lieu de construction d’identités“
07.07.2025 H16:30-17:30 – In Dialogue with the Past: the CArME Project for 21st-Century Rome, Walter Tocci
The aim of the CArME project is ambitious: to rediscover the Forum area as the centre of public life, just as it was in antiquity. With appropriate protection, restoration and design, both modern spaces and archaeological areas can fully resume their symbolic role as the heart of the civitas, while also becoming a preferred setting for everyday life, a place to meet, to walk through history, to explore the city’s multi-millennial story, to feel free to play, study, or work, to take part in civic events and public debate, and above all, to recognise oneself as a citizen of Rome and of the world.
The scale of the project goes far beyond the Forum itself, encompassing the entire area between Piazza Venezia, the Baths of Caracalla, the Oppian Hill and the River Tiber. It is the Monumental Archaeological Centre of Rome, referred to by the acronym CArME, in memory of the carme, the poetic composition that in archaic times held a propitiatory function for great undertakings, and which we hope may serve as a good omen once again today.
Keynotes organized in collaboration with the University of Geneva and the University of Neuchâtel as part of the second session of the Summer School „Identités antiques en question, Rome comme lieu de construction d’identités“
08.07.2025 H18:30-19:30 – Designing Rome in the 21st Century: the Laboratory for the Strategic and Operational Plan of CArME, Carlo Gasparrini
The Strategic and Operational Plan (PSO) of CArME is built on a structuring and qualifying principle of public action: to reverse the course that, over time, has led to a compartmentalisation of the heritage process concerning CArME. This process has progressively narrowed to the involvement of two increasingly exclusive actors: heritage authorities, with their necessary specialisms, and mass tourism, with the cultural impoverishment it generates. In effect, this has distanced the citizens of Rome and of other national and international communities, weakening the socio-cultural value of this extraordinary site. The ambition is to restore it as an integral part of the city, renewing a fertile relationship between urbs and civitas.
This ambition is further reinforced by the considerable scale of this vast public space within the Aurelian Walls, 2.7 square kilometres, just under one-fifth of the total surface area of the Historic Centre, a dimension without equal in this part of the city.
Hence the need to implement a complex and participatory public initiative that ensures the generation of new values associated with inhabiting the many places of CArME, rather than simply crowding the most celebrated ones. This calls for a vision of public space that is accessible to all, compatible with protection requirements and with the necessary advancement of archaeological, architectural and landscape research, research that must also be nourished by an inescapable and explicitly contemporary design dimension.
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