Fourty-three victims, 600 displaced people, 281 demolished residential units, an indefinite number of people who have lost their jobs or their jobs are at risk, two neighbourhoods (Certosa and Sampierdarena) and an entire valley, Valpolcevera, already in serious economic and social crisis; companies and trade in difficulty but also people, many people that, although they haven’t suffered direct damage, have found themselves having to rethink their daily lives and habits, people that everyday feel like “survivors”.
This is the immediate legacy that the collapse of the "Morandi" highway viaduct has left on the places it crossed that are part of an already deeply compromised urban fabric, both in economic and social terms.
Keeping alive the memory represents one of the most significant steps, so that such inheritance can be profitably invested and be the basis on which to think the reconstruction not only of a bridge, but of an entire city-system.
Memory, indeed, cannot be abandoned: memory must be preserved and transformed into something that projects itself into the future, so that everyone can see, even when we return to a new normality.
With the Mom project we want to make operational a virtual place in which to document and reflect on what has happened. This virtual place will also have the function of constituting an attractor of interest and a design tool to achieve the construction of a real "place of remembrance", a physical place, tangible and worth to be visited by all those who want to remember.
