Instauratio Urbis III Part 2 Project 2020 Irene Palmiotto University of Strathclyde | UK Instauratio Urbis III draws out an imaginary of Rome that is focused on the peripheral modernist housing estates of the Fascist era, the borgate. Promoted as sanitary improvements, the borgate were simultaneously an instrument in Mussolini’s legitimising myth of Romanità, complicit in the demolition of centrally-located housing districts and the displacement of the “parasitic” social classes that inhabited them.Over the years the borgate became symbols of Fascist doctrine but also of political resistance and cultural strength, drawing attention of Pasolini’s neorealist films and poetry. Their critical potential is nonetheless overshadowed by the spectacular, petrified image of the Eternal City. Instauratio Urbis III is a response to two previous historic attempts at re-imagining Rome: the first exemplified by Piranesi’s Campo Marzio, and, second, by Mussolini’s violent gesture. Positing an urban vision in which inhabitants of the peripheries are invited to return to the city, along with re-designed and re-oriented architectural fragments of the borgate, this project tentatively probes the possibility of reconciling Rome’s celebrated and overlooked architectures. Unravelled between the ancient ruins and over the iconic landscape, this imaginary urbanism consists of seven architectural propositions, each corresponding to a different borgata, a dedicated urban function and one of Rome’s hills. Irene Palmiotto Tutor(s)