Un(Coiled)

"Uncoiled" reexamines Coiling Connections through a crafted book, dissecting its core ideas, participants, and impact patterns to create critical distance from the original intervention. While the initial project aimed to integrate migrants into Rome’s urban fabric, the exhibition questions whether architectural solutions can truly overcome institutional barriers and effect lasting social change beyond symbolic gestures.
Set within an environment of handmade books, reading spaces, and carefully curated lighting, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on architecture’s dual role—both as a tool for social transformation and as a discipline requiring constant critique. By navigating between documentation and analysis, multiple perspectives on the original intervention emerge.
By "uncoiling" these various threads - social, bureaucratic, and architectural - both the potential and limitations of design in addressing urban integration are exposed. The resulting narrative challenges viewers to consider how architectural practices might evolve to better serve communities in transition.