Ponte Morandi

3 years later

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Ponte Morandi – 3 years after

3 years after the collapse of the Morandi bridge and the reconstruction of the new San Giorgio viaduct, what is the current situation of its main victims after the media spotlight has been turned off? A neighborhood was destroyed and another emerged from invisibility, a community that has lost its focus but remains attached to its identity through an urban redevelopment project which has transformed a neighborhood by redesigning perception of an entire valley within the city

Morandi Bridge 3 years later. What happened 3 years after the collapse of the viaduct on the Polcevera? How is the current situation and what has happened in these 3 years, what has been done and what has not? Which promises were kept? From the collapse of the bridge on 14 August 2018, to the inauguration on 4 August 2020, the area has always remained under the spotlight, but now that the media attention is over, what happened to the displaced people and what consequences have there been on the neighborhood and in the area? The project aims to show the current situation of the neighborhood, the rebirth of a peripheral area considered invisible, today a world center of street art thanks to the attention and initiative of committees and associations of former displaced persons that were created after the tragic event. These people whose lives have been completely turned upside down are leaving again today. They managed to patch up these 3 years which saw them displaced and tossed for months from one “house” to another, throughout the Genoese territory. Those who have changed area and life, those who have preferred to stay in the neighborhood, those who have been evicted in vain given the failure to demolish the building, those who have not found permanent accommodation and are still facing moves, those who no longer want to hear about it, those who instead fight to justice and for the maintenance of the promises made, which to date have not yet been kept given the renewal of the contract with Autostrade for the management of the new bridge. Certainly the opening of the Radura Della Memoria, which today stands exactly in the middle of that street which was gutted for the construction of the new San Giorgio viaduct, is today a space returned to the community and used as a public garden where children and families spend the free time among the 43 trees representing each individual victim. The clearing is also an important center for a community, although it no longer exists, which restores a minimum of identity through meetings, demonstrations, concerts and weekly activities which attract former and non-displaced people, who no longer live in the area, but who they are unable to separate the invisible bond they still have with that place which no longer physically exists today but which remains vivid in broken dreams and in their memory.