Brave New Alps

“Learn to Act – a manual for mutual local and trans-local learning”

Saturday 24 March / 10:15 – 10:45

 

 

Short Biography

Brave New Alps is the collective name under which Bianca Elzenbaumer and Fabio Franz have collaborated since 2005. Brave New Alps are designers committed to exploring the politics of social and environmental issues. They use design as a vector through which to question our surrounding realities and to proactively suggest alternatives. Their current research interests revolve around the commons, community economies and critical posthumanism.

 

Bianca is an associate professor at Leeds Arts University. Fabio is a PhD candidate at the Sheffield School of Architecture.

 

More information on Brave New Alps can be found on their homepage.

 

Book Summary

For the last ten years, a network of locally-based projects from across Europe have been visiting each other to learn, teach, share and discover the knowledge held in their communities. This network has involved projects, practices, participants and ordinary people from six countries, nine regions, four cities, two towns and six villages. This is the Eco Nomadic School. Learn to Act is the book that introduces the school’s aims. The title is a clear proclamation towards a form of learning which is both an act of commoning and a moment in which knowledge becomes relative, collective and applied. Learn to Act is about the near future, how to act, and how to support each other.

 

Suggested Readings

Learn to Act: Introducing the Eco Nomadic School / Kathrin Böhm, Tom James, and Doina Petrescu, eds. Paris: aaa/peprav / 2017

 

 

Questions/Statements

How can locally rooted projects of active citizenship support each other across Europe?