Radio Robida: A conversation with Flora Mammana

Tune in for a conversation between Flora and Vida Rucli about common lands and commons in Trentino (IT). The podcast is part of the new programme of Radio Robida “BRANCHING IN, BRANCHING OUT – Notes on learning“.

 
Flora Mammana is a cultural activist working in the field of social and emancipatory transformations. This means experimenting with a plurality of ways of being together: ‘My long-term goal is to activate the common land (Usi Civici) in our valley in a feminist and non-extractive way to prevent illegal privatization, for example through the further expansion of vine monocultures.’ The Forno Vagabondo, one of Flora’s projects – a mobile ‘social’ oven where baking bread becomes the setting for nurturing relationships and questioning our ways of living, eating and producing – also serves as a tool for activating and exploring the commons.
 
Branching in, branching out is a new program of Radio Robida that wants to explore collective learning, situated pedagogies and embodied knowledge practices as ways of propagating new realities. The title comes from an interpretation of the etymology of the verb to educate – latin educere, to draw out, take out but also branch out. Branching in, branching out is a double movement of reaching and encountering what is afar, being inspired and open to different discourses, but at the same time going into what we have an affection to, rooting ourself, being activated and moved by what stays in our proximity, leaning on the landscape and learning from it.

 
Radio Drugega/The Other Radio program is co-financed by the Javni zavod GO! 2025 – European capital of culture, Nova Gorica.
 
Thank you Vida Rucli for hosting the conversation 🙂