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Casa delle Agriculture is a complex coalition, the combination of a volunteer-based organization, founded in 2013 and named after Tullia and Gino Girolomoni, and a farming co-op, started in 2018. The CdA counts among its objectives the experimentation of new forms of local self-governing and the practice of “restanza,” novel ways of re-inhabiting and re-launching marginalized areas and towns suffering from de-population.

Xarkis (est. 2013) started off as a social experiment to test ideas of self-sufficiency, DIY practices and resilience, exploring communal identities in the midst of the global economic crisis which climaxed in Cyprus in 2013. Our mission is to foster collaborative knowledge exchange, nurture dialogue between people interested in socio-ecological change, and engage with local cultures, through participatory artistic practices. As a transdisciplinary team, we propose curating as an act of the commons, rooted in social and ecological practises and framed through care as a method. We facilitate and implement cultural, participatory and socio-ecological initiatives.

La Foresta is a community academy in perpetual evolution that is growing in a regenerated space of the Rovereto train station, in Vallagarina, Trentino. We host and promote participatory cultural, artistic, economic, culinary, educational, research, environmental, mutual aid, do-it-yourself activities and much more. We wish you happy reading and, if we manage to stimulate your curiosity, come and visit us!

Terra Preta helps landowners, municipalities and community land groups depave, decontaminate, and regenerate their degraded land thanks to the value of soil intelligence. Their services include monitoring, data analysis and research, stakeholder engagement, place-based strategies, and landscape design. They are a cross-disciplinary team with an international experience, an experimental Nature-Based approach and are deeply rooted in the local territory.
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Gylleboverket is an exploration site, an artist group, and a self-organised non-profit platform that operates in the tension between contemporary art, film, deep ecology, permaculture, social sculpture, rituals, and scientific viewpoints. Everything that takes place here is interloped and attached as a nexus where exhibitions, social sculptures, lecture series, think tanks and artistic explorations contribute to one another.

Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus is a cultural house, a people’s house and one of Stockholm’s largest meeting rooms. Open every day, for everyone. The house is a place for popular education, association life and culture. Every week, the house is used by 100s and 1000s of individuals, associations and groups. It houses local radio, chess clubs and pensioners’ associations together with literature talks, artistic research and dance courses for both newborns and pensioners. Our ambition is to create an ecosystem of social, artistic and pedagogical practices that enable conversations, reflection and a democratization of the local area and the city at large.

We produce participatory design projects that engage people in reconfiguring the politics of social and environmental issues. We combine design research methods with radical pedagogy, feral approaches to community economies and lots of DIY making and organising. We create a diversity of outputs, including spaces for making, learning and exchanging; commoning and community-building processes; events such as workshops and conferences. We also enjoy feminist theory, writing, (self)publishing research outputs, working with our circular saw, printing with our Risograph and good graphic design. Brave New Alps started out in 2005 as a collaboration between Bianca Elzenbaumer and Fabio Franz. In 2012, we registered as a cultural association in Italy in an attempt to explore what legal and organisational framework can support an eco-social design practice that wants to operate beyond the market, that is, outside the conventional client-designer framework. To do so, we also rely on practice-based research positions, currently working remotely with the Center for Other Worlds, Lusófona University, Lisbon.