How could a Bubble make invisible housing crisis visible in urban space?

Bolzano is a place where housing exists but is no longer accessible. While thousands of apartments remain empty, luxury developments like Walther Park continue to grow. As a result, rents rise to levels that push people out of the market and into precarity or homelessness. 
In Bolzano, the so-called “housing crisis” is actually a real estate bubble fueled by limited supply and public policies favouring owners and investors over residents.
Paradoxically, this price increase coexists with thousands of empty or underused homes and a growing social emergency.
Homes are no longer places where people live; they are now part of a privatized financial empire that prioritises profit over people’s well-being.

“BUBBLE: inhabitating pubblic spaces” began as an idea of a poetic and political occupation of urban spaces. Using a transparent bubble as a “portable home,” the project highlights the precarious conditions caused by the housing market in Bolzano’s streets.
The BUBBLE can be moved between squares, sidewalks, and urban voids, creating situations and images in which life becomes temporary, fragile, and visible. 
At the same time, the “BUBBLE” is also a play device that invites us to experience the city again in a happy, lighthearted, and childlike way. 
The project finds its strength in this ambiguity because, while municipal regulations prohibit camping and temporary settlements, they also state that “playing in public spaces is always allowed,” and the Bubble fits perfectly into this space of freedom.