[EN] [IT] Deistitutionalise / Deistituzionalizzare

Margherita Bono. The Trieste model’s ability to construct different ways of working derives not only from being inside the complexities of everyday urban life, but rather from the force of disarticulation that invades the institutional character of the institution itself. Breaking down the separations between the different segments of the State, forcing them to talk amongst themselves, to rethink themselves, and to lose themselves in the midst of the problems. If you look closely enough, no one is normal.

[EN] [IT] Subjectivities / Soggettività

Federico Rotelli. The scale at which health takes place is first and foremost an urban scale, determined by the mechanisms of exclusion and discrimination by which social spaces are configured. The practice of health therefore is born first and foremost out of respect and the construction of practices within this complex relationship. Beyond mechanisms of evaluation and measurement, institutional practices have to situate themselves in the impossibility of translation: in the overflow of urban subjectivities. That is where one might develop situated tools rather than deploy abstract protocols.

[EN] [IT] Expert communities / Comunità competente

Federica Sardiello. Against the imposition of the assymetrical and professional relationships characteristic of medical practice, the micro-area aims to upend this model and to think about health principally as a space from which to contribute to the construction of democracy. This means seeking out singular processes of emancipation and empowerment. It also means constructing these processes in such a way that they collectivize and place institutional responsibilities upon a territory, in all its richness and potential. The institutional that sustains the common. The singular within a collective process.

[ES] [IT] Detrás de los muros, nacen los monstruos / Dietro i muri, nascono i mostri

La tercera semana de marzo de 2017 recibimos en Madrid la visita de los psiquiatras italianos Franco Rotelli y Giovanna del Giudice, compañeros de Franco Basaglia durante la reforma psiquiátrica en Trieste, y después en el resto de Italia, poniendo en práctica la Ley 180 que cerraba los manicomios. El linaje de las transformaciones en salud mental de 1970 se extiende hoy a las prácticas de salud en el territorio, que comparten la concepción basagliana de la salud como un proyecto colectivo a la par que individual, y la tarea de la institución como aquella que es capaz de alinearse con ese proyecto en una lucha cotidiana por abrirse a la complejidad de lo social, produciendo democracia al hacer salud.