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…
FRICTIONS Administrative workshop at Casco Art Institute 10 -11 September 2025, ACElab researcher Kate Rich convened a two day workshop at Casco Art Institute – Working for the Commons in Utrecht (NL), as part of her MSCA…
The Institute for Experiments with Business (Ibex) In 2025, ACElab researcher Kate Rich initiated a core experiment for her MSCA Fellowship research FRICTIONS, establishing The Institute for Experiments with Business (Ibex) as a new organisation in Europe.…
Publication: Infrastructuring for caring food practices – learnings from an Alpine community academy In this paper, we explore instances of grassroots infrastructuring in support of communal learning projects that centre caring food practices. We explore these instances of infrastructuring from a practitioner perspective,…
Publication: Powering the Commons Through Design – Embracing the Aesthetics of Convivial Imperfection How can design strategically strengthen non-capitalist and postcapitalist economies and increase the social power of those sustaining them? What role does aesthetics plays in shifting power towards postcapitalist modes of…
Clip: La Foresta – collective opening hours The Belgian documentary film maker Esmée Klink produced a short ethnographic study of how the members of the community academy La Foresta organise and facilitate the regular opening hours of…
Webinar: What feral strategies make your worlds? In this 6th seminar in the New European Bauhaus meets Community Economies series, we introduce a mapping tool that supports the feral engagement with the creative industries. Through the…
Publication: Contemporary Commoning Practices in the Alps – Co-Creating Spaces for Imagination and Action These thoughts on contemporary commoning practices in the Italian Alps were first presented at the final conference of the Sino-German research project Urban-Rural Assembly in Apolda (DE) in May 2024.…
Station for Transformation – website online We are online with the Station for Transformation communication channels. You can now follow what is being co-developed in and around the train station of Rovereto on various media.…
Publication: Reclaiming Abandoned Railway Infrastructure for Post-Progress Times Here we share thoughts on how we are transforming some of the railway infrastructure at the – still functional – train station of Rovereto into learning spaces that support the…
