Villa Unda, Elena Mazzi, 2011
Villa Unda is a booklet made of notes, drawings, sketches, documents that have been dictated by the inhabitants of Onna, a small town close to L’Aquila, struck by the earthquake in 2009. I asked inhabitants to show me skills and abilities they exercise in their everyday life. My main aim was, on the one hand, to try to understand what has changed after the earthquake, with particular reference to the new spatial configuration; on the other hand, to transform these daily habits in strategies necessary to be aware of the new spatial organization that surrounds them. I wanted to give voice to their abilities, which were not specialist, but, in my opinion, fundamental for our society, as far as they are part of a collective memory, realizing a booklet containing different points of view on how you can interpret and live a “new” space after an earthquake. Flipping through the pages you will find the voice of the inhabitants denouncing the actual situation and tracing, through their stories and memories, a change, which is not only spatial, but also social and cultural.
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