Design diffuso dai margini: uno studio critico delle pratiche emergenti nelle comunità auto-organizzate di Ballarò, Palermo.

Abstract

This paper analyzes, through situated qualitative research, the forms of diffuse design emerging in the Ballarò neighborhood [Palermo] as adaptive responses to urban marginalization processes. The study investigates how everyday practices of self-organization, co-production, and care for space generate informal social infrastructures capable of supporting local ecosystems of social innovation. Framing design as an enabling infrastructure, the work proposes a systemic reading of emerging initiatives, highlighting tensions, potentials, and limits in their institutional scalability.