Lo spazio della cura: prospettive filosofiche sull’architettura psichiatrica

3rd seminar of the cycle of meetings ‘Medicine and Environment’, organised in collaboration with the Centre for Religious Sciences of the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento and the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento for the year 2025.

This talk aims to explore the differing relationship with space and the architecture of the psychiatric institution as seen in the work of Michel Foucault and of Franco Basaglia, despite their mutual influence and the many points of contact between the philosopher and the psychiatrist.
Foucault interprets the asylum as a disciplinary machine, a structure designed to subjugate bodies and institutionalize madness, making architecture an inevitable extension of psychiatric power. Basaglia, on the other hand, experiments with how the transformation of space can contribute to the process of subjectivization of patients, necessary for the process of deinstitutionalization.
The comparison between the two approaches shows how architecture is never neutral but intrinsically linked to power logics and social processes, and poses absolutely relevant questions to contemporary architecture: the relationship between rights and the use of spaces, and above all, the time and space of healing that a society produces and imagines for those who are not considered “healthy”

Speakers:
Giuseppina Scavuzzo (Università di Trieste)
Salvatore Carannante (Università di Trento)

Modalities of participation:
Free entrance in presence
By remote booking | Booking link: HERE
Booking deadline: March 19, 2025 at 12

Scientific Committee:
Lucia Galvagni, Alessandro Palazzo, Greta Perletti, Massimo Rizzante

Organised by:
Alessandro Palazzo

Contacts:
Staff di Dipartimento Lettere e Filosofia
0461 282913, 0461 281788, 0461 282729
[email protected]

	L’iniziativa è stata realizzata anche grazie al contributo della Direzione generale Educazione, ricerca e istituti culturali del Ministero della Cultura.