From Local Students to Local Scholars: From Naples the Experience of a Study Group that Used the Street as a Classroom

The Territory is to be considered today as a complex system in which social practices develop. These are ongoing changes that involve the community as much as the territory itself, generated most of the time by rapid social and technological evolution. As much as we talk about it today, it is only in recent times that attention has shifted to the social system as the cause of territorial transformations. The data relating to these changes are numerous, but to date it is not known how quickly they are transformed because at the same time there is data that is too subjective to be able to codify them in this perspective. Based on these reflections, the contribution will try to talk about the laboratory experimentation conducted in Naples with a group of students from the Department of Architecture. We tried to analyze a portion of the territory by making a qualitative and quantitative reading of it, systematizing the data obtained and crossing them as layers to be turned on or off depending on the topics involved. What initially seemed like a stratified reading based on data that did not communicate with each other, instead gave a common result that had not been foreseen in the preliminary analysis phase.