Il territorio aquilano nelle rappresentazioni dei preadolescenti a dieci anni dal terremoto del 2009: uno spazio pubblico insostenibile?

The territory of L’Aquila in the representations of pre-teenagers ten years after the 2009 earthquake: an unsustainable public space? During the school year 2018-2019, the working group of the Cartolab Laboratory of the University of L’Aquila conducted a research-action with 14 first classes at the secondary school “Dante Alighieri”. The research aimed to develop a descriptive and interpretive-explanatory framework for L’Aquila territory ten years after the 2009 earthquake. This was done by bringing out and analysing the subjective geographies of those who in 2009 were between 1 and 2 years old. Specifically, the contribution examines 321 drawings made by the students involved in the research, which represent their “life space” starting from their houses and everyday places. The social geography of L’Aquila that emerges from the pre-teenagers’ drawings is at times anonymous, fragmented, disintegrating; it is a geography that raises questions about the post-earthquake reconstruction and the sustainability of the territory of L’Aquila, about the ability of the territory to configure itself at a cognitive, practical and organizational level as a public space capable of supporting and nurturing social relationships and a “healthy” culture of inhabiting over time.