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Autor principal:	Rosato, Gabriele Carmelo
Formato:	Recurso digital
Lenguaje:	inglés
Publicado:	Zenodo 2025
Materias:	Trauma-informed design Safe spaces Urban anthropology
Acceso en línea:	https://doi.org/10.57623/979-12-5953-188-9
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Public spaces can either promote a sense of safety and belonging or reinforce feelings of exclusion and vulnerability. Traditional urban design often overlooks the lived experiences of marginalised groups—such as trauma survivors—resulting in environments that are emotionally unsafe. This paper positions itself at the intersection of trauma studies, urban anthropology, and inclusive design, advocating for a trauma-informed framework for outdoor urban spaces. It considers the city not merely as a backdrop for social life, but as an active agent that can support or impair psychophysical well-being, depending on how it is designed, inhabited, and regulated. Globally, an estimated 70% of adults have experienced at least one traumatic event. Trauma survivors, therefore, do not represent a narrow or exceptional demographic, but a diverse and sizeable population whose needs often go unrecognised in spatial planning. Their exclusion is not peripheral—it signals a fundamental flaw in current urban practice. From a critical perspective, it highlights shortcomings in existing planning frameworks and proposes policy recommendations to integrate trauma-informed principles into Italy’s “Plan for the Elimination of Architectural Barriers” (PEBA). It also emphasises the need for mandatory community participation in urban design, particularly involving those with lived experience of trauma. In this context, trauma-informed urbanism offers a necessary shift: one that sees public spaces not only as physical or functional domains but as embodied, symbolic, and relational fields, where memory, power, and emotion converge. Engaging with the spatial consequences of trauma acknowledges the city as both a witness and a participant in human suffering—and, therefore, as a potential agent in the collective healing process. Ultimately, by reframing public spaces as potential sites of healing, safety, and empowerment, this paper aims to advance the state of the art in urban design, offering a comprehensive framework for making outdoor environments truly inclusive by design.

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