Pad (Jun 2020)
Identity and Care in the Daily Life Project of in Changing Women
Abstract
Ezio Manzini defines the project as the human capacity that allows us to read the state of things, recognize problems and opportunities, to imagine how things could be and what new meanings could be created, but above to realize what we imagined. The project, therefore, understood as transformative capacity of reality, neces- sarily implies to go out of the so-called comfort zone, to give, with a creative and unusual wave, a change. In the Things of Others project, led by an interdisciplinary team of the Architecture Department of the University of Florence, “things” have become the pretext for 40 refugees, to tell a part of their history and their life in their countries of origin. In the Odissee Fiorite format, through the mutual meeting and photography of three everyday objects that express experiences of life and cultures, related to the past, present and future, the artist and visual anthropologist Tiziana Men- egazzo highlights the ability of women to do home wherever they are and wherev- er they come, regardless of their personal odysseys. How they manage, starting from the objects of daily life, to transform their memory into a future project, to be carried out in the care of every day, nourished by hope and tenacity.
