Relays

The people involved in the Alpine Laboratory for Community Economies activate collective experimentations where the transformative theories and practices of community economies are nurturing each other. For more details on each single relay, please check out their dedicated websites and social media profiles.

 

LA FORESTA – COMMUNITY ACADEMY

LA FORESTA is an open network of organisations, informal groups, active citizens and the Social Services of the Municipality of Rovereto. The network formed around the desire of creating a community academy in an unused building at the train station of Rovereto (TN/Italy). These are the principles and desires that hold the network together:
– the necessity to create spaces for community, exchange and conviviality;
– the need to experiment transformative practices together, making good use of all the energies and resources there are;
– the desire to create situations for collaborative learning between people of different social, geographical and generational background;
– the desire to involved people in the co-design of initiatives and learning situations.

La Foresta is supported by the Social Services of the Municipality of Rovereto and Ufficio Svolta.

E-mail: ciao@laforesta.net
Facebook: @accademiadicomunità

 

COMUNITÀ FRIZZANTE – MAKING DRINKS TO MAKE COMMUNITY

COMUNITÀ FRIZZANTE is a diverse network of actors united by the desire to let “sparkle” the way we are and make together. How? By inventing, producing and distributing drinks with thought-provoking flavours through a cycle of participatory processes. Comunità Frizzante is active in the Italian Vallagarina valley, a territory rich in biodiversity, flavours and initiatives.

Comunità Frizzante is supported through the expertise and resources of a fantastic network of local and translocal actors. On a monetary level, the project is sustained through a grant by Fondazione Caritro, sales of drinks and commissioned workshops as well as through contributions of the Municipality of Rovereto and the Valley District Management.

E-mail: bevi@comunitafrizzante.it
Facebook: @comunitafrizzante
Instagram: @comunitafrizzante

 

FORNO VAGABONDO – FERMENTING DESIRABLE FUTURES

FORNO VAGABONDO is a social bread oven on board of a cargo bike. The oven travels through the villages of the Vallagarina and creates convivial situations in local parks, where the multiple elements and politics related to bread making are explored through a feminist post-humanist lens.

The project had an initial grant support by by Ufficio Svolta. It was born as joint project of the following associations: Brave New Alps, Italia-Nicaragua, La Foresta, Portobeseno, Multiverso, Goever.

Instagram: forno_vagabondo

 

SOTTOBOSCO – GROWING UP IN NATURE

In September 2020 the project SOTTOBOSCO started out as an experiment with forest pedagogy as a way to reconfigure what it means to be human when growing up in the Alps (the second largest biodiversity reservoir in Europe). The experiment takes place in the woods and pastures of an organic mountain farm.

Sottobosco is sustained by the seven families involved as well as through the hospitality of the organic farm.

 


THE INTERDEPENDENCE – UBIQUITY IS OUR SCALE


THE INTERDEPENDENCE exists to make visible and support people and organisations who are practising community economies worldwide. Organisations, initiatives and people affiliated to The Interdependence add the abbreviation idt. to their name, to signal at a glance that they perceive themselves as interdependent with others, and as part of a larger movement to create economies that have the well-being of people and the planet at their core.
The Interdependence aims to reveal the scale, solidarity and reach of practices who recognise our fundamental and inescapable interdependence. Members of the alliance strive to put ethically negotiated relations in practice as they make a living for themselves, provide for others, and receive a living from others in times of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss and continued struggles against oppression.

Instagram: the_interdependence