MAMA

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MAMA is a developing spatial practice to whom maintenance matters. This print is your selection of our reflexions presented in the form of a manual. Check our website for more.

Starting in 2015 with the these maintenance as craft, a critical approach of the notion of work to question our relationship with the environment, we believe that maintenance is architecture : an integral part of the designed and built environment that transforms it radically. To act accordingly, we ask ourselves what is maintained when we maintain and practice maintenance as a research method. We develop through storytelling, including research, drawings, writings, workshops, conferences, exhibitions and direct action. We do data analysis and image representation. From the maintenance industry to daily households, all over the wide spectrum of design, architecture and urbanism, MAMA calls for dinner.

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A 2018 pilot project promoted by the “Five Star Movement” ( political party ) in Italy put “Prisoner-gardeners” to work in Rome with the idea of …

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A 2018 pilot project promoted by the “Five Star Movement” ( political party ) in Italy put “Prisoner-gardeners” to work in Rome with the idea of developing and maintaining municipal gardens. Today the city employs 100 gardeners, much less than in the year 2000 when 1500 gardeners looked after the city.

The money saved by using this labor force and the educative and psychological benefits to inmates are the main arguments given to justify the project

Similar projects are planned in Milan, Palermo and Naples.

Most of these information have been taken from: Rome's green-fingered inmates clean up the city's parks and gardens. An article of Arman Soldin for the thelocal.it

Rome inmates garden