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<\/p>\nRomanico Automatico is an intervention to enhance the public space that is part of a process of recovery of a neglected area of the historic center of Pistoia, on which insists a pact of cooperation between the association Spichisi, some residents and the municipal administration. Through a program of artistic residencies and related events, the aim is to enhance the area of Piazzetta Sant’Atto and Vicolo dei Bacchettoni, a place that today is called Giardino di Cino. The first phase of Romanico Automatico consists in the realization of a drawing on the ground, the result of an abstract, though rigorous, manipulation of a series of compositional themes of Romanesque architecture. A few steps from the Duomo, the project aims to strengthen the identity of the area through the use of a graphic matrix well rooted in the common imagination of the citizens of Pistoia, establishing a dialogue of continuity and transformation with the many examples of Romanesque architecture in the historic center.<\/p>\n
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Despite its centrality, the project area is located outside the beaten track, hidden from tourists and residents, seems to evade any map and georeferencing system. Only three point entrances lead to this cut-out of the city, creating a structure similar to that of a small village. These spatial characteristics have made the area over time become the scene of illegal and disrespectful behavior of various kinds; the challenge of the redevelopment process carried out by the association Spichisi is based precisely on the desire to exploit the particular scale of this place, transforming it from a forgotten village into a public space, intimate and intimate, a sort of enchanted city populated by artistic interventions and devices of social aggregation.<\/p>\n\n