PROGRAMME
- Saturday 14 February – Alternative Education Models
The first day is dedicated to exploring alternative education models, self-learning practices and non-institutional learning tools. Through dialogue with experiences operating outside or on the margins of traditional educational systems, the day invites participants to question the roles, formats and methodologies of cultural education, sharing situated practices and tools that can be adapted and reused.
The morning opens with a roundtable discussion featuring Scuola di Ecologia Politicain Montagna and Anna Hilber, vice president of the association BASIS VinschgauVenosta, an organization dedicated to transdisciplinary promotion and education in the fields of economy, culture, and social practices based in Silandro.
Scuola di Ecologia Politica in Montagna is an educational and discussion-based program created to examine the ecological crisis through its social, economic, and cultural dimensions, while also questioning the power structures that shape it. Active since 2020 in Castiglione dei Pepoli, in the Emilian Apennines, the school promotes a decentralized perspective rooted in mountain territories, rethinking the relationship between communities and the landscapes they inhabit. BASIS Vinschgau Venosta is a large-scale adaptive reuse project located in the former Druso barracks in Silandro. Founded in 2019, the association works toward the balanced strengthening of rural areas and promotes an ecosocial model of social and economic development.
Throughout the day, four workshops take place, inspired by open-source toolkits and publications developed by artists, researchers, and collectives, proposing replicable, situated, and non-hierarchical knowledge-production practices. Overall, the day offers a shared experimental framework to imagine and practice alternative forms of learning grounded in collaboration, critical awareness, and collective transformation.
Choose the workshop that interests you most and experiment together with the group on new practices and replicable tools!
Collective Lucid Imagining: a laboratory for experiencing a different way of learning and producing knowledge, without predefined content, objectives, or projects. Through collective imagination, listening (to rhythm, atmosphere, and tension), and the body as a tool for perception and transformation, participants enter an open narrative process to navigate change, chaos, and deviation, cultivating collective lucidity through creative disorder.
Allo-Auto Process: a workshop that experiments with autotheory as a situated method for cultural work and community-based practices. Through three core movements (positioning, shifting, and negotiating) participants explore care, collectivity, and responsibility in non-hierarchical contexts, using radical honesty to critically reflect on the extractive potential of collective practices.
Living Agenda: a workshop exploring the concept of a Living Agenda as a dynamic approach to collective work that resists the pressure of efficiency. Participants test a mini Living Agenda in real time through rituals such as the Talking Stone circle and Body Breakaways, fostering deep listening, presence, and co-creation, and develop a replicable ritual structure for their own cultural contexts.
Toolkit for Collective Reflection and Unlearning: a workshop activating exercises for collective reflection and (un)learning toward the decolonization of knowledge production. Through shared codes of practice, positionality exercises, and reflections on language and authority, participants make visible normalized hierarchies and exclusions, experimenting with concrete, replicable tools for more situated and accessible practices.
- Sunday 15 February – Community-Based Artistic Approaches
The second day focuses on community-based artistic practices, co-design processes with territories and long-term relationships between art and communities. The day explores how artistic practices can become tools for social activation, trust-building and the production of shared knowledge.
The morning opens with a roundtable featuring Adelita Husni-Bey, an artist who has long worked with participatory practices and collective processes, and Habitattt.
Adelita Husni-Bey is an Italian-Libyan artist and educator whose work intertwines participatory practices, research and experimental educational formats, questioning the mechanisms of political and economic power that shape contemporary society.
Habitattt is a cultural project and participatory platform working between art and territory, promoting practices of dwelling and collective storytelling in rural contexts, with a particular focus on the Tuscan Romagna area. Through residencies, workshops and public moments, habitattt builds a living archive of experiences, memories and local imaginaries.
Throughout the day, a series of thematic workshops will take shape: program explores community-based artistic approaches as situated practices capable of generating relationships, activating contexts, and building temporary forms of community. The workshops draw inspiration from projects and methodologies developed by contemporary artists and collectives, translating them into workshop formats and replicable exercises. Through practical and creative activities, participants will question established notions of authorship, impact, and value, exploring art as a device for collective imagination, shared action, and mutual responsibility. The day’s schedule offers an experiential framework that approaches artistic practices as tools to imagine, activate, and experiment with new forms of collaboration, learning, and community-building.
Choose the workshop that interests you most and experiment together with the group on new practices and replicable tools!
Arte Útil Lexicon of Usership: a workshop focused on the language and criteria of Arte Útil as a framework for artistic practices oriented toward social change and collective processes.
Micro Soil Kitchen: a participatory format inspired by convivial exchange, using soil as an entry point to reflect on ecology, relationships, and territory.
Gelatineria: a laboratory of sensory and material practices intertwining art, science, and feminist new materialisms, where experimentation is understood as a collective and situated practice.
How can a landscape be activated through community-based practices?
The workshop is conceived as a collective space for reading, discussion, and shared production, exploring the relationship between territory, margins, and community-based artistic practices.
- Monday 16 February – Closing session and meeting with the Apennine community
The final day is conceived as a moment of translation and opening: moving from the reflections that emerged during the days of self-learning towards a concrete dialogue with the territory. The goal is to share practices, questions and visions, and to co-imagine together with the local community the possible developments of the public programme of the Creative Landscapes artistic residency.
Download the PDF with the full three-day program and register for the workshops via the form. If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to contact us by email!