Saluti da Roma

We propose a series of potential interventions to finally surrender the eternal city to its truly eternal citizens: tourists. Each act differs radically from the other - such large is the distance in shape, history and nature of Rome’s monuments; for the sole sake of consultation we easily exemplify them with four main strategies: removal, replacement, activation and appropriation. [...] An act of removal aims to a radical preservation of the real monument, at the cost of “undoing” it. [...] An act of replacement allows to swap any original monument with its copy. [...] An activationintervention aims at assigning a function to a monument, turning it into a profitable element of the city. [...] With an appropriation act the aura of well-known monument will gratefully inhabit those incomplete places, expanding at the same time the socio-economical benefits of visitors to the whole perimeter inside the G.R.A. while giving a new meaning to some metro stops in the meantime.