**4. The 'Laboratorio di Città Corviale'**

The 'Laboratorio di Città Corviale' qualified as an indispensable agency for implementing urban renewal. About half of the planned houses were built, and 70 families moved. The main steps were three: a thorough and direct knowledge of the inhabitants of the houses, with the identification of community leaders; people-topeople dialogue to explain the project, the timetable and the modalities of moving to other homes to allow demolition and reconstruction; and finally, the extension of intervention actions that affect the life of the neighbourhood and involve other protagonists who go beyond the issue of the house and imagine a future space that creates a heritage and roots. Work began in January 2019, and the site has continued in construction phases, according to the sequence described above. Occupants are being relocated, and spaces are being cleared for the planned demolition of the project's precarious artefacts and shelters (**Figures 6**–**8**). Ten phases are planned for the full implementation of the project, three of which have already been completed (**Figures 9** and **10**). Fifty-five families were affected, of which twenty-six had the right to be resettled as they were included in the ranking list. Twenty-five families who were not included in the ranking list have no right to return to the renovated shelters and remain in the emergency shelters provided by the Ater. In addition, four families were expelled because they did not meet the requirements for social housing. The lab's activities are diverse and cover a wide range, not limited to assisting the families who must be removed to carry out the work. There are coordination activities for the move, contacts with the new residents and support for tenants in their relationship with Ater technicians and officials, and also, meet with the affected families to get bureaucratic support for the move.

**Figure 7.** *The regeneration, work in progress. Credit: Laboratorio di Città Corviale.*

**Figure 8.** *Plan with illegal housing, before demolition. Credit: Ater.*

Assist the families in finding the best possible placement for their children in the schools, and inform them about the phase of reintegration into the new flat, including the determination of the rent they will have to pay from the moment the new flat is handed over to them (**Figures 11**–**13**). In the meantime, in collaboration with local associations, the laboratory won a three-year tender for the 'Estate Romana'. It organises cultural initiatives in the neighbourhood and involves a community of artists

**Figure 9.** *'Quarto Piano', new flats, Phase 2. Credit: Ater.*

**Figure 10.** *'Quarto Piano', new flats, Phase 3. Credit: Ater.*

**Figure 11.** *The new flat. Credit: Laboratorio di Città Corviale.*

**Figure 12.** *The new flat. Credit: Laboratorio di Città Corviale.*

**Figure 13.** *The new flat. Credit: Laboratorio di Città Corviale.*

renewing the art and craft spaces they inhabit through the project 'Piazza delle Arti e dell'Artigianato' (**Figures 14**–**17**). A process called 'heritage making' has taken place, which is even more evident in the case of the 'Progetto delle Memorie', another laboratory activity. The 'Progetto delle Memorie' is a project that gives substance to the inhabitants' memories. It is the photographic and architectural inventory of the self-built houses on the 'Quarto Piano' before demolition (**Figures 18**–**22**). Photographs and house plans of the houses before demolition were exhibited in the spaces vacated by some of the houses, transforming the living hall of the first plot into a space for common use.

The 'Progetto delle Memorie' has given the inhabitants and all visitors a new and non-trivial view of a process of depositing housing that, even if it is outside the rules, cannot be considered marginal. The 'Quarto Piano' and the photos convey a sense of life that makes sense and dispels many of the prejudices often attributed to life in social housing.

An awareness that was then extended to the other inhabitants of the building by involving them in the 'Archivio Corviale' project, which collects photos of Corviale's first 40 years of life. The laboratory is a destination of many students from Italian and
