LA CASA PUBBLICA COME INFRASTRUTTURA SOCIALE MULTIDIMENSIONALE. L’ESPERIENZA DI TAVERNA DEL FERRO

Abstract

Public Housing as Multidimensional Social Infrastructure: The Case of Taverna del Ferro. – This article examines public housing as a multidimensional social infrastructure, challenging the unidimensional interpretations that continue to shape public debate and policy. To capture the variety of social infrastructures operating within complex urban contexts, it proposes a multidimensional analytical framework articulated through a two-axis conceptual matrix (material/immaterial; universal/situated). Based on ethnographic research conducted in Taverna del Ferro, a large public housing complex in Naples currently undergoing a PNRR-funded regeneration project, the study shows how social infrastructures emerge from the interplay of care practices, political resistance, local identities, and institutional interventions. The case demonstrates that public housing embodies political, symbolic, and reproductive potential that must be recognised to design regeneration processes genuinely grounded in local contexts.