Casilina in a room

A big city map of Rome on the wall of an art gallery in Berlin, the noise of the trenino Giardinetti in the background and a series of black plastic sheets hanging from the ceiling recalling names of familiar places like Pigneto, Torpignattara, Casilino 700 and 900, Mandrione or Valle Borghesiana. And yet unknown areas where I’ve never been while living in Rome, where the city shows diverse forms of informality and inhabitants experience their arte dell’arrangismo (make do approach).