Progettare l’incompiutezza. Le aree dismesse come risorsa per la città

The landscape of Bagnoli is the product of almost a century of industrial activities, which once ceased, have left evident traces: not only the industrial archaeologies, but especially the vast open spaces, the soils, which today assume the status of disused areas, or brownfields. Accepting incompleteness can be a design attitude, aimed at framing post-industrial landscapes as areas that have undergone changes over time, changing their nature, and that they can continue to undergo this continuous process of modification in the future, avoiding the imposition of definitive uses. This approach may not only concern brownfields themselves, but the whole urban system of which they make, in many cases, part: the abandoned areas can be seen as open spaces for different uses over time, which can guarantee a resource for the existing city. The paper aims to deepen in the form of discussion the design experimentation on the themes and the case study of Bagnoli.