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: Agents of Alternatives in Thurø (DK) This summer, Fabio and Bianca visit Katharina Moebus of Agents of Alternatives, which is a translocal research collective whose mission is to promote and support practices aimed at positive societal…
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…
Self-organized community housing: Italy goes Mietshäusersyndikat With La Foresta we started out working on the issue of affordable housing. Our aim is to tackle the issues of precarious and high-cost housing by tracing pathways on how…
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…
Community Economies in Action – A practice Retreat in Europe From 11 to 19 July 2023, Bianca, Flora and Kate Rich brought together 30 people for the first Community Economies Practice Retreat to explore how to press forward with ways…
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…
