Palermo, Ilaria (2023) Cinema in Piazza: a cultural grassroot initiative as an opportunity for urban resilience. A qualitative study of the open-air movie screening phenomenon in Rome. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Urban resilience is fundamental for cities to adapt and overcome future challenges. Social cohesion has been found to be an important pillar of urban resilience. Both grassroot initiatives and public spaces can enhance social cohesion, therefore a combination of the two could offer an opportunity for increasing urban resilience. The neighborhood of Trastevere, in Rome, has lived through the multiple cinema closures through the past years, along with gentrification and damaging nightlife. Cinema in Piazza is a grass-root initiative born in 2014 to fight these changes in Trastevere. This research investigates whether this initiative is enhancing social cohesion, how, and if this could be an opportunity for urban resilience. Five interviews were conducted, which were shaped around four identified manifestations of social cohesion: social interactions, sense of belonging, willingness to help, and trust. The limited results demonstrate that Cinema in Piazza could be an opportunity for resilience. The key contribution in the paper is that it is the tie between public space and a grassroot initiative that seems to be linked to manifested social cohesion. Future research should investigate the role of design of public spaces to facilitate, or not, cohesive behaviors through grassroot initiative.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Planning and Design |
| Supervisor: | Saleh, M.M.I.M. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2023 10:20 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2023 10:20 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4239 |
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