Webinar: How do you fund it? In this first seminar in the New European Bauhaus meets Community Economies series, we map the monetary and non-monetary inputs that allowed the community academy La Foresta and the…
La Foresta – Coop School visit We had the pleasure to meet a study group on social cooperatives organised by Scuola Coop. The visit was organised and led by our co-founder Flaviano Zandonai, who is an…
Rediscovering Collective Lands in the Alps – Usi Civici We reside in the Italian Alps, where the alpine and Mediterranean climates seamlessly merge. Within our region, part of the alpine arch, Europe’s second-largest biodiversity reservoir is found. Here, we…
NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS meets COMMUNITY ECONOMIES In collaboration with La Foresta and Trajna (SLO), we have just embarked on our first Erasmus+ project with a focus on studying, mapping and disseminating innovative economic models of finalists…
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…
