EUI Innovation Grant: Station for Tranformation We are excited and humbled to have been awarded a European Urban Initiative innovation grant: between September 2023 and August 2027, the EU supports our project consortium with 5 Mio…
Contemporary Commoning Practices in the Alps At the opening of the final exhibiotn of the IBA Thüringen (DE), Bianca gave an invited presentation on our work in the Vallagarina and the Alps more widely titled Contemporary…
Talk: New Futures for Creative Economies The CKC conference 2023 “New Futures for Creative Economies” was dedicated to making visible different ways of ‘doing’ the creative economy. The conference aimed to draw on the experiences,…
La Foresta got a new website :) Thanks to the work of Fabio and Angelica Cianflone, the community academy La Foresta finally has a new website. There we share insights into the academy’s activities, approaches, economies and…
Publication: Moving from critical to caring design practices What can it mean to shift from a critical to a caring design practice? In the book Care Beyond Crisis, edited by Kris Krois et al., Bianca raises this question…
Community Economies in Action: A Practice Retreat 2023 Together with the Community Economies Institute we announce an inspiring Practice Retreat: Community Economies in Action. The retreat will be held 12-19 July 2023, in the Italian Alps (in Rovereto,…
Research trip: Pontevedra & Frojám, ES In our quest to learn more about traditional land-based commons, we spent a few days in Galicia with fellow CERN member Noortje Keurhorst. For her PhD, Noortje works on…
Theory of Change for CIPRA network With Bianca’s co-presidency of CIPRA International also comes the chance (and challenge) to dive into the Theory of Change methodology. Since January 2022, Bianca is involved in trainings, workshops and…
Local research trip: 4 weeks of Vallagarina In August, we spent 4 weeks camping in different corners of the Vallagarina to get a much more detailed understanding of our territory. Each basecamp was set up between 20…
Research trip: Tschlin, CH This time our research trip focused on historical and contemporary commons took us to Tschlin (CH) to meet Curdin Tones of Somalgors 74. Curdin is running an eclectic cultural programm…
