Roma Media Archive

European Roma Mapping is a project aimed at increasing knowledge of the culture and diversity of the Roma people in Europe.
Partners:
LAN, Italy. Co-founded in 2004 by Alexander Valentino, Pietro Nunziante and Cristiano Luchetti, Laboratorio Architettura Nomade is a non-profit association for the research and diffusion of alternative art and architecture. It specializes in the research process through a didactical laboratory of experimentation that confronts contemporary urban materiality. www.lanhub.org. Project Coordinator: Alexander Valentino
ATU, Romania. Asociatia pentru Tranzitie Urbana is an NGO established in Bucharest in 2001 and since 2007 opened an office in Sibiu. ATU members contribute with their specific professional knowledge from the field of architecture, urban design, sociology, anthropology and landscape architecture to various projects combining research and intervention. The main goal is to facilitate the communication between urban actors, by acting as an interface between authorities and local communities. www.atu.org.ro. Team Leader: Catalin Berescu
London College of Fashion – University of the Arts London, UK. The Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion connects research, education and business to support, inspire and create innovative approaches to fashion. The building of an industry that can flourish, communicating positive change throughout supply chains and beyond, impacts radically on the societal and economic triggers that fashion is able to influence. www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/csf . Team Leader: Lucy Orta
TAMA, Greece. Founded in 2003 TAMA is a non-profit research association, which promotes the interaction between art, anthropology, sociology, history, and environment studies through the production of art projects, events and workshops. Tama’s research projects address borderline issues such as immigration, temporary settlements, nomadic and illegal behaviours, at the same time co-operating with universities, foundations, theorists, artist, designers, students and the general public locally and internationally. www.tama.gr Team Leader: Maria Papadimitiou

www.eu-roma.net

EU-ROMA (European Roma Mapping) gained a deep level of knowledge of the dynamics of the settlements of the Roma living in Italy, Greece, Rumania and the United Kingdom, partner countries of the project and those in Serbia, associate partner. EU-ROMA focused on the legislations in force and on the migrations underway during the course of the project. EU-ROMA promoted a discussion on the recognition of historical settlements in the centres of important cities, just as in towns and villages; an analysis of the policies of gentrification which remove substantial groups of Roma from the most productive areas, towards ever more distant and economically marginal zones. EU-ROMA developed a study of recently constructed settlements: little brick-built or prefabricated villages, with public or private funding, self-built dwellings, planning for organized or unplanned family dwellings; halting sites regulated with the acquisition of different relevant legal orders, keeping up to date with the most recent relevant legislation; authoritarian planning, forced displacement; camps hidden on the banks of rivers and in wooded areas, illegal shantytowns which have built up over the years; occupations of abandoned factories. EU-ROMA analyzed the existential difficulties of groups who maintain nomadic traditions, highlighting examples of forced displacements.