the future of the area currently occupied by Roma Casilino Field 900 is an enigma:
the official version says that it will become part of PARK Centocelle
other rumors say it will be a PARKING serving the metro line C,
certainly is that, with the transfer of the field, the Roma community is
PARKED elsewhere without knowing its future
PARKED elsewhere without knowing its future
what follows is the testimony of the last days of the field
told by students of the Faculty of Architecture of Rome
Rome, January 19, 2010. The city administration after a year of negotiations with representatives of Roma communities and the coordination of the evacuation begins in Rome Casilino 900, thereby starting the Plan Nomads. The transfer of the field Europe's largest specimen is proposed as a model to follow to overcome once and for all the "Roma issue", not only in Italy but in the capital.
But what they we are seeing is the realization of those promises with which the administration has managed to secure the cooperation of the Roma a year ago, the horizon can not see houses, or in Rome or in the provinces around it, there is and the new field in which to transfer the entire community without dismember, a field that should have been built by the Roma themselves, and would areas where it should have done the market, meeting spaces for community repositories for ferrous materials, workshops. You do not see neither the cooperatives nor the projects for the employment or the new ID, in hand have only Test Strip of paper with requests for humanitarian asylum, having fled the war and have lived forty years in Italy. After a year, the feeling is that Roma are slowly slipped into a trap, the usual trap, the field of container and invisibility.
Casilino of 900 families will be divided according to their nationality, in four fields: Street Living room, via Gordiani, via Candoni Camping and Roman River. Agree to relocate without object, attend the demolition of their homes, they go away with no guarantees on their future. Today began the end of Casilino 900, but not of the "Roma issue", in the year of issue areas, that will not resolve certain people massing in existing fields already filled, or creating new ones, more peripheral and monitored.
Students of the Faculty of Architecture of Rome tells the story of the evacuation, through the stories of those who have left or are leaving the field and through the objects he was forced to leave behind. Stories that no one is listening, objects torn from the clutches of a bulldozer. Stories and articles of people they are taking away the house and the place they grew up in exchange for an uncertain future, which they know next to nothing, made of tin cans closed in pens guarded. Our work aims to collect and propose alternatives, to show that another way is possible and is also more convenient for Roma and for all: the DIY out from other ghettos, beyond the fences of the fields, toward a future and Gage Rom that can begin to know each other and to overcome mutual prejudices, to another city to invent together.
This blog intends to launch a Centre for Monitoring the transfer of Casilino 900. We invite all citizens and associations in recent years have been close to the field to participate by writing to casilino900@googlegroups.com
