La prima fase di COMUNfARE sta procedendo bene. Abbiamo appena finito di stampare il primo numero della Guida del Suolo, una guida del comune e di chi se ne prende cura in Vallagarina. I suoi contenuti sono generati insieme a chi contribuisce alle tavole rotonde che stiamo organizzando da luglio a Nomi, il paese dov’è cresciuto Fabio. Seguite l’evoluzione del progetto qui: https://www.facebook.com/comunfare
The first phase of COMUNfARE proceeds well. Just finished printing the first issue of the Soil Guide, a guide to the commons and commoners of the Vallagarina district. Its contents are generated together with those who contribute to the roundtable discussions we’ve been organising in Fabio’s home town Nomi since last July. Follow the updates on the project (in Italian) here: https://www.facebook.com/comunfare
We are starting a reading group around the book Take back the economy – an ethical guide to transforming our communities by J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen Healy and Jenny Cameron.
We will use the book to stimulate discussions about our socially and politically engaged design practices and the various economies that accompany them. This means that although it will be important to read the texts, it is even more important to draw on our own knowledge that we gained through practice.
The reading group will take place once a month and last for about 1.5hrs. Physically it will be based in Leeds and Nomi, but we will also always have a skype connection for people in other places to join.
The first session will be on Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 17:00 (UK time). Please read the introduction for this first session, so we can decide together what direction to take and what makes us most curious.
The book is made up of an intro, 6 chapters and a conclusion, so if we meet once a month, this will keep us going for eight months and hopefully contribute to transform some of our economies!
If you want to join the reading group, please drop us a line: bravenewalps (at) gmail (dot) com.
Ecco il nostro contributo a Backsides, un progetto di Simon Rogers, insieme a Kia Tasbighou, Erik Brandt, Other Means, Bastion, Jon Bland, Paul Bailey, The Rodina, Alistair Hall, Dante Carlos, Sarah Boris, Corbin Mahieu and Cyanne van den Houten.
Here our contribution to Backsides, a project by Simon Rogers, together with Kia Tasbighou, Erik Brandt, Other Means, Bastion, Jon Bland, Paul Bailey, The Rodina, Alistair Hall, Dante Carlos, Sarah Boris, Corbin Mahieu and Cyanne van den Houten.
Fra breve parleremo di COMUNfARE alla conferenza Making Futures presso il Plymouth College of Art, all’interno di una sessione che pare più che promettente: “Place-Making-Space: a workshop of tools and methods for ‘crafting communities’ and ‘making places’ in the post-global / post-localism era”.
We’ll soon present COMUNfARE at the Making Futures conference at Plymouth College of Art. The session in which we’ll talk about the research is titled “Place-Making-Space: a workshop of tools and methods for ‘crafting communities’ and ‘making places’ in the post-global / post-localism era” — promising!
Abbiamo appena inserito un nuovo link nella colonna di sinistra che porta al nostro profilo su Academia.edu, dove raccogliamo vari testi pubblicati in inglese: Testi
We just added a new link in the right-hand column, leading to our profile on Academia.edu, where we collect all of BNA’s published texts: Writings
Fra pochi giorni presenteremo il paper intitolato “Montagna Viva, The Living Mountain: Conversing with an experiment in making (the local) in common” alla conferenza “Architecture and Resilience on a Human Scale“, che si terrà dal 10 al 12 settembre presso la Sheffield School of Architecture.
Scarica qui il testo (in inglese).
We’ll be soon presenting a paper titled “Montagna Viva, The Living Mountain: Conversing with an experiment in making (the local) in common” about the local initiative around the commons Montagna Viva at the Architecture and Resilience on a Human Scale conference at SSoA.
Download the paper here.
The text on the context out of which Precarity Pilot grew is now on-line: Precarity Pilot: Making Space for Socially- and Politically-Engaged Design Practice.
Lunedì scorso abbiamo gestito un laboratorio presso la Travelogue Summer School a Porto (PT) per un gruppo di 24 progettisti dalla provenienza più svariata, dal Messico al Kuwait. Una splendida giornata dedicata alla caccia di commons urbani temporanei o permanenti e alla riflessione attorno a pratiche di commoning nella città contemporanea minacciata da politiche di austerity e gentrificazione.
Sorry for posting this so late. Last Monday we ran a workshop at Travelogue Summer School in Porto (PT) for a stunningly diverse group of 24 designers. A beautiful day hunting for temporary and permanent urban commons and reflecting about practices of commoning in the contemporary austerity- and gentrification-ridden city.
We invite you all (and your friends too) to sign this petition to save R-Urban in Colombes (Paris).
This amazing long-term project for trans-local resilience and the urban commons is threatened with eviction by the newly-elected right-wing municipal council. The plan is to build a car park where now Agrocité is located and to get rid of all other components of the project by coming September.
It is of vital importance that R-Urban stays alive, as it is only through ‘facts on the ground’ like this that we designers/architects who are pushing for other ways of doing design can keep being inspired and confidently long for alternatives evading the homogenising forces of capital.
Please spread this widely. #saveRURBAN
Sta per partire una nostra nuova avventura, questa volta in Vallagarina: il Circolo del Suolo, prima tappa del percorso di ricerca COMUNfARE – Verso una scuola per la progettazione popolare e il fare in comune.
Partiremo il 14 luglio con una serata introduttiva al progetto, alla quale siete tutti invitati!
Biblioteca di Nomi
via Romani 14
Dalle 19.30
We are about to start a new adventure, this time in Italy: Circolo del Suolo is the first initiative as part of our research COMUNfARE – towards a school for popular design and making in common.
We are getting started on July 14. If you happen to be in Italy this summer, please come and visits us!
Municipal library
via Romani 14
38060 Nomi (TN)
Siamo lieti di annunciare la prossima conferenza di PhD By Design con il titolo ‘Researching across difference’. Si terrà il 5 e 6 novembre 2015 nell’dipartimento di design a Goldsmiths.
In collaborazione con Maria Portugal e Alison Thomson.
We are very excited to announce the next PhD By Design conference, ‘Researching across difference’, being held in the Department of Design at Goldsmiths on the 5th and 6th of November 2015. The conference is an opportunity to present work and discuss the diverse aspects of what it means to do a practice-based PhD in Design.
In collaboration with Maria Portugal and Alison Thomson.
Alle decima conferenza biennale della Gender and Education Association facilitiamo un workshop su tattiche e strategie femministe nell’educazione d’arte e design. Sperando di muovere qualcosa e di produrre del contenuto per il sito di Precarity Pilot.
Feminism, Power and Pegagogy GEA conference
25 giugno 2015 – 9:00-11.00
Richmond Room
University of Roehampton
London
In collaborazione con Sam Broadhead, Sheila Gaffney, Debra Roberts e Kai Syng Tan di Leeds College of Art.