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…
Publication: Cartographing Commons A conversation with Oya Magazine on the work we are doing in the Lagarina Valley to map common lands and to explore them in order to fall again in love…
Publication: Giochiamo ai commons?! In collaboration with Michèle Milde, we produced an Italian translation of the German children’s book “Commons kinderleicht?!” that has been created by Smilla Todt, Anne Wiedemann and Veronika Golyak. You…
Exchange: Community Economies Institute Symposium, Kioloa Australia Dec 8-13th, ACElab’s Kate Rich attended the first in-person international symposium for the Community Economies Institute (CEI), at the Australian National University’s Kioloa coastal campus in Australia. The gathering was…
ULEX training in Leaderful Organising November 2025, ACElab postdoctoral fellow Kate Rich attended the ULEX Leaderful Organising intensive training programme in Eroles, Spain. The training centred on practices and understandings for more effective distribution of…
