Tools

As the research project evolves, here grows the assemblage of tools that are used in the lab activities.

 

ALPS 2060 – A COMMUNITY FUTURING TOOL
The futuring workshops are a tool to make visible desires existing throughout alpine valleys, to bring people together who would not usually think about the future together and to create a basis for the development of concrete community economy actions and experimentation on the ground. Download the publication outlining this workshop method.

 

COMMUNITY-BASED, WALK-IN RESEARCH LAB
Alpine Community Economies Laboratory is committed to participatory and practice-based modes of research and thus in large part unfolds within a community-based, walk-in research space in Rovereto (Vallagarina, Trentino, IT). This walk-in research space is a spatial tool that supports collaborative and caring knowledge production across a wide range of expertise and always with a focus on action. It also helps to embed the research in everyday life in the valley district and and to challenge extractive modes of research.

 

THE DIVERSE ECONOMIES ICEBERG BY J.K. GIBSON-GRAHAM
This drawing of the iceberg explains what it means to read the economy as always diverse, i.e. as always made up of widely valued and undervalued activities. The empty drawing can be used in collective settings to explore together what sustains our livelihoods.

 

Download a pdf of the iceberg (A4).
Download an empty iceberg for collective brainstorming sessions (A4).

 

DIVERSE RELATIONS MAPPING
This method is useful for the hand-drawn creation of an inventory of the diverse social and material relations that you can count on to sustain your livelihood.   Download method description.