Futuring IBEX: The Institute for Experiments with Business In September 2026, Brave New Alps Fellow Kate Rich travelled to Istria, Croatia to work with colleagues from FoAM on the Institute of Experiments with Business (IBEX), a research, training and…
The Institute for Experiments with Business – Business Plan How do we plan for the future, when we don’t have clear trajectories, or reliable institutions around us? ACElab post-doctoral researcher Kate Rich, along with her colleagues Maja Kuzmanović and…
Unfolding Ecosystems – the network as method We spent two days with Dr Fabiola Fiocco to connect around her research on institutional practices in the arts from a networked perspective, while considering what we can learn and…
Migrants in Culture mini-residency In July, Kate Rich undertook a mini-residency with Migrants in Culture in London. Migrants in Culture is a migrant-led art and design agency for the migrant justice social movement. The…
Innovating democracy: an alliance to reactivate participation How can we reinvent democracy when traditional models no longer meet today’s needs? And how can we engage those who feel excluded from decision-making processes? These questions gave rise to…
A ROSCA experiment Transformation-oriented designer Nirvik Maskey (BA, Linnaeus University) served as designer in residence at La Foresta Community Academy. During his residency, he deepened his exploration of design for socially just economies,…
Frontiers of Commoning Podcast: Brave New Alps After many years of knowing about each other thanks to our friend Silke Helfrich, in April Bianca and David Bollier connected for an online conversation for David’s podcast series Frontiers…
Tool: Organisational visualisation of La Foresta From January to May 2026, sustainability-focused designer Giorgia Morandi (MA, Aalto University) collaborated with members of the community academy La Foresta on two key projects: a) Visualizing La Foresta’s…
Method: Journalling as Eco-Social Compass Long-term tracking, transformation and strategising around the value practices* you want to have contributed to the world. 1. Get a notebook you want to keep for all your life.…
Terra Corpo Territorio For some time, across La Foresta – community academy and Brave New Alps we have been passionately concerned with civic lands, collective domains, and rights of civic use (in Italian…
