GIS in the analysis of the rhizomatic urban development of Tor Vergata

The scope of this article is to observe the complexity of the relations between Rome’s University Campus of Tor Vergata and its discursive universe, from the former abusive districts to the re-qualified images of the suburbs of the 8th City Hall, raised to the rank of Centralities in the New Regulatory Plan of Rome.

In order to understand the size of Tor Vergata’s system of relations, it is essential to use the application of the rhizomatic and virtual method of the performative mapping. A process involving the attribution of new meaning and a different order to what is already existing. In this context, only the potential of GIS can guide in de-codifying the territorial configuration of Tor Vergata, which finds in the rhizome, in the multiplicity of viewpoints and in the difference, the fundamental principle of its action. The rhizomatic view of the GIS, in fact, gives an innovative image by replacing the idea of insecurity with the idea of a structure which is not shapeless, and which represents Tor Vergata as a “place”, not anymore as a periphery.

Luisa Carbone

 

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