The Void empowering a sense of belonging within inhabited spheres

The concept of Void, since ancient times, has often been associated with a negative connotation. The Void is everything, it is a center from which something else is generated, it is space, it is lightness, it is immateriality but at the same time also fullness. The emptiness is not only synonymous with nothingness, but becomes above all a physical manifestation of images, rela-tionships, memories and actions. The architectural void is, first of all, a kind of open space, available to the project as unplanned: it is the place of events. We need to reason about the need and the difficulties of giving place with a new project to the complex interweaving of social and spatial relationships that make spaces. The city is an environment of interactions, in which the dynamic social transformations are most evident. Public space offers a true opportunity to test new urban and social models, thus becoming a principal catalyst for positive changes in the entire urban context. It is therefore neces-sary to re-establish a relationship between public space and its inhabitants, providing a system of proximity by highlighting the human and non-human dimensions and consequently connecting services, relationships, and oppor-tunities. In an analogous way, it is interesting to scale these peculiarities of the concept of Void – as a potential generator of memories and actions in living spaces and relations – in other more remote and distant contexts and inhabited spheres, where co-existing expressions of absence, silence, noth-ingness. We consider those depopulated spheres, with little innovation of ser-vices and human relations; but which stage their fertile territory to guarantee new cultural and social manifestations, dissemination of future memories and a concrete sense of belonging in these contexts. One must always start from an emptiness, to demonstrate the true essence of its existence.