In the domestic realm, unexpected creatures wander.
It is not only the place of the home, of functional everyday life, but an unstable landscape made up of practices that keep us alive: small rituals, silent revolutions, micro-resistances. In this workshop, we will navigate through multiple, mutating, divergent, and sometimes unspeakable desires.
We will ask ourselves: How can we transform the domestic from a closed space into a generative, political, affective one?

We will seek out and inhabit spaces that are not functional or optimized, but porous and open – where the body can be present, mutable, relational. Spaces that do not organize but connect, that allow the unexpected to emerge. We will ask how to create structures that do not enclose but liberate, how to design procedures that do not impose but enable.

We will start from the body – with its plurality of forms and memories – to activate practices capable of engaging and transforming. We will speak of care, not as individual sacrifice, but as a collective, resistant, and choral gesture. Together, we will explore potential strategies: networks of listening, economies of closeness, interspecies alliances, radical gestures of hospitality. We will do so from a place of disorientation, confronting the binaries that cross and limit us, and asking how we are connected – not only through technology, but through shared affections, memories, and vulnerabilities.

In this affective and political geography, we will try to imagine new possibilities for relationships, new forms of shared existence.
Ecologie fluide is an invitation to reorient our desires, to stay together in the not-knowing, to collectively trace new routes.

The workshop is part of the public program Feral Design. Perspectives and Poetics of the Unruly by Noemi Biasetton.

Image: Copyright © 1963 by Maurice Sendak, copyright renewed 1991 by Maurice Sendak. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

PROGRAM

The workshop includes participation in two full days of activities, on May 29 and 30, from 11 am to 6.30 pm.

The workshop is free of charge and is designed from a multidisciplinary perspective, particularly addressing artists, designers, architects, theorists, writers, and curators. However, we welcome applications from individuals of any background.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply, please fill out this form  by May 27.
For more information: [email protected]

BIO

Bianca Elzenbaumer is a commons activist. She lives in Trentino, where she works with two organizations she co-founded: the association Brave New Alps and the community academy La Foresta. In her everyday life, she is committed to social change, using tools drawn from design, feminism, and community economies.
She holds a degree in Design from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, a Master’s in Art and Design from the Royal College of Art (UK), and a PhD in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Martina Dandolo is an eco-social designer and transfeminist activist. She lives among collaborative and relational projects that center care and the building of alliances. Her work is rooted in participatory approaches, with particular attention to inclusion and social justice. Through design, she explores and develops tools to support ecological, cultural, and collective transformation processes. She is interested in mutualistic economies, community practices, and paths of self-determination.
She holds a Master’s degree in Eco-Social Design from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.