TERRA Ultimate chiamata – Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli – TERRA Land consumption is challenging our territories and the management of public space has become a hot topic of debate. In this…
Pessimism? We can’t afford it It’s time to get active, says Bianca Elzenbaumer, designer and researcher. In a world characterised by watching, passivity is no longer an option. Especially in light of the climate crisis,…
Talk: Kultur im Dorf – Dorfkultur in Wattens (AUT) On June 16, 2023, the symposium “Kultur im Dorf – Dorfkultur, Dritte Orte als Zukunftslabore für Tirol” (Culture in the Village – Village Culture, Third Places as Future Laboratories for…
Research trip & talk: Schwarzatal in Thüringen (DE) On the 12. August, Bianca shared our ways of organising and working towards eco-social presents and futures in the Lagarina valley at the Zukunftswerkstatt Schwarzatal, Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Thüringen. We connected…
Al Masha / Rural Commons @ Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies Course In late summer, Bianca and Fabio contributed for a week to this year’s Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies (DAAS) at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. This is a year…
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,…
Talk: Feminist design practices and their entanglements with community economies At the Liviana 2022 conference, Bianca and Flora, together with Gaja Meznaric-Osole and Katharina Moebus shared how their feminist design practices are entangled with community economies. &nsp; Design researchers guided…
Rural Commons Assembly in Tyrol We just spent some stellar days in Tryol with fellow commoners from rural areas across the Alps. In collaboration with artist Johannes Reisigl, initiatives came together who activate the power…
Upcoming: Rural Commons Festival At the end of May and beginning of June, we will be celebrating rural commons in three valleys of the Trentino region (IT) on three consecutive week-ends. The festival…