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All hope abandon ye who enter here | Personal Security
This project starts from the analysis of the data provided by the institutional bodies (Home Oce and ISTAT) in the field of public safety and from the desire to represent the theme of physical security as is socially treated. Ocial sources deal with this topic considering a purely legal side: provided data are those related to the reported crimes' type and number, related to the place in which they are committed and relative criminal actions. The reference year is 2005, the most “recent” for which it is possible to establish a cross-comparison between data. The project was developed, on one hand, in order to show the judicial apparatus' functioning and numerical data about crime, on the other hand, to highlight all the elements missing in social analysis, which are though very important to understand the complexity of the topic. The city is structured on the political and social hierarchy: the state, institutions, citizens. In this context, relations between the parties and their influence on physical safety are therefore perceived. In order to represent the classes of crimes and the system of convictions and sentences, the metaphor of Dante's Inferno has been chosen. At the same time, the image of an underground machine, consisting of pipes and gears, explains the criminal justice process' stages, showing its complexity. Where, therefore, insecurity creeps into? In the amount of citizen who decide not to press charges, in the disproportion between the reported crimes and the convicted criminals, in weakness and finally in the imposed penalties, in a panorama that shows difficult paths and seems to tell to those who have to deal with it: “All hope abandon, ye who enter here”.
Project by:
Federica Bardelli
Alessandro Marino Giuseppe Brunetti
Gabriele Colombo
Giulia De Amicis
Carlo Alessandro Morgan De Gaetano
www.densitydesign.org/course_projects/insecurity_systemdi...
All hope abandon ye who enter here | Personal Security
This project starts from the analysis of the data provided by the institutional bodies (Home Oce and ISTAT) in the field of public safety and from the desire to represent the theme of physical security as is socially treated. Ocial sources deal with this topic considering a purely legal side: provided data are those related to the reported crimes' type and number, related to the place in which they are committed and relative criminal actions. The reference year is 2005, the most “recent” for which it is possible to establish a cross-comparison between data. The project was developed, on one hand, in order to show the judicial apparatus' functioning and numerical data about crime, on the other hand, to highlight all the elements missing in social analysis, which are though very important to understand the complexity of the topic. The city is structured on the political and social hierarchy: the state, institutions, citizens. In this context, relations between the parties and their influence on physical safety are therefore perceived. In order to represent the classes of crimes and the system of convictions and sentences, the metaphor of Dante's Inferno has been chosen. At the same time, the image of an underground machine, consisting of pipes and gears, explains the criminal justice process' stages, showing its complexity. Where, therefore, insecurity creeps into? In the amount of citizen who decide not to press charges, in the disproportion between the reported crimes and the convicted criminals, in weakness and finally in the imposed penalties, in a panorama that shows difficult paths and seems to tell to those who have to deal with it: “All hope abandon, ye who enter here”.
Project by:
Federica Bardelli
Alessandro Marino Giuseppe Brunetti
Gabriele Colombo
Giulia De Amicis
Carlo Alessandro Morgan De Gaetano
www.densitydesign.org/course_projects/insecurity_systemdi...