Nelle "Città invisibili" di Italo Calvino, Marco Polo racconta a Kublai Kan, imperatore dei Tartari, le mille città del suo impero, mille sfaccettature di una stessa irraggiungibile città, sovrapposte a memoria e divenire. Calvino amava contrapporre verità e punti di vista, così nel suo schedario incompiuto, all'immagine di ogni città corrisponde il suo negativo. Vale lo stesso per le nostre grandi metropoli, dove non v'è centro without suburbs.
The border between these two places opens like a zipper along the margins of society. It is not always a geographical distance to define the boundary between inside and outside, but rather the distance from the invisible network of relationships, family, emotional, social, economic. Then happens to find patches of historical and economic centers in the outskirts of the city: men and women to stay along a sidewalk, including the cartoons in a small square, train station or on a tram at night, watching people run, like the edge of a river.
To tell this city, and the city as a whole, I lived and slept on the street in Rome between 15 December 2004 and January 3, 2005, hosted by some of its approximately 6 thousand "residents."
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