Make place

The search for place is the underlying theme of migrations; the dream of a home is what induces so many people to leave a country – often the country of origin – to find a space to realize their utopias. Now this phenomenon reached significant numbers, which make it one of the most delicate topics of our time. The difficulties connected with it must not be considered an exceptional, temporary or casual condition, which may be reject, because is an existential “timeless” condition. Refugees and fleeing peoples, migratory flows seeking a dream of peace and prosperity, cross regions and territories, but their imprints no longer trace an ongoing project because they hardly get to a final destination, lingering in shelter places outside the boundaries of hoped lands, in spaces not of welcome but of refusal, the very negation of utopia that pushes to emigrate. The provisional nature of the buildings of temporary settlements linked to the rhythms of nature, defines the concept of “settlements lightness”, a mode in which the man identifies archetypal dwellings which, from necessities and needs, pursue non-invasive or definitive constructive systems. These artifacts, unstable and unresolved, do not interfere with the continuity between man and nature, but are the result of awareness, matured by experience, that certain extreme behaviors of nature can’t be governed.