COMUNfARE is our long-term practice-led research project situated in the economic,\u00a0spatial, social and environmental context of the Vallagarina district in the Italian Alps.\u00a0During our presentation, we will share how we go about researching our intuition that commoning may actually offer us a way out of the environmental and social\u00a0shitstorm we are in. We will discuss practical experiments we are conducting together\u00a0with other citizen activists in order to create and activate spaces where ways of relating\u00a0and living together become possible that are challenging our competitive, individual and\u00a0market-driven ways of life.<\/p>\n
“Being-in-common–that is, community–can no longer be thought of or felt as a\u00a0community of humans alone; it must become a multi-species community that includes all\u00a0of those with whom our livelihoods are interdependent and interrelated.”\u00a0Ethan Miller and J.K. Gibson-Graham<\/p>\n
“For many living in precarious situations, the Anthropocene is already life-altering, life-threatening, and even deadly. It comes in the form of a massive flood or a rising tide\u00a0that takes their homes away. Or as an oil well that poisons the river on which they\u00a0depend. But for others, especially the white and middle-class of the global North, the\u00a0Anthropocene is so banal that they do not even notice it. It is the green front lawn, the\u00a0strip-mall parking lot, the drainage ditch where only bullfrog tadpoles remain.”\u00a0Heather Anne Swanson<\/p>\n
“Thinking with a feminist insight that ‘the personal is political’, personal ethic-political\u00a0practices of change need to be also though as collective. By this, I refer to situations\u00a0when people are changing their ways of doing at the level of personal everyday life, not\u00a0individually but in connection to a collective.”\u00a0Maria Puig de la Bellacasa<\/p>\n
We produce participatory design projects that engage people in reconfiguring the politics\u00a0of social and environmental issues. We combine design research methods with radical\u00a0pedagogy, feral approaches to community economies and lots of DIY making. We create\u00a0a diversity of outputs, including spaces for making, learning and exchanging; commoning\u00a0and community-building processes; events such as workshops and conferences. We also\u00a0enjoy feminist theory, writing, (self)publishing research outputs, working with our\u00a0circular saw, printing with our Risograph and good graphic design. We are currently co-creating a community academy at our local train station in the Alps.<\/p>\n
Bianca Elzenbaumer works as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research. Fabio Franz is a Ph.D. candidate at the Sheffield School of Architecture, University of Sheffield.<\/p>\n
The banality of the Anthropocene – Heather Anne Swanson\u00a0Manifesto for living in the Anthropocene – edited by Katherine Gibson, Deborah Bird Rose\u00a0and Ruth Fincher\u00a0Matters of Care – Maria Puig de la Bellacasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What shall we make in common? COMUNfARE is our long-term practice-led research project situated in the economic,\u00a0spatial, social and environmental context of the Vallagarina district in the Italian Alps.\u00a0During our presentation, we will share how we go about researching our intuition that commoning may actually offer us a way out of the environmental and social\u00a0shitstorm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":604,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-590","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n