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Urbanacción Conference 25-26-27 November 2009 in La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Presentation of The Cook, the Farmer, his Wife and their Neighbor, organized by Urbanaccion
 See La Casa Encendida
HOMEMADE project: First workshop 21-30 October 2009 in Venice.
 See Rebiennale/HOMEMADE website Freedom is participating into the life of your own city. Problems of a city belong to its inhabitants, as well as the joy of conducting there a good life. Finding an alternative to the social, economical, environmental and political system, we are part of, is also our duty as inhabitants and citizens. HOMEMADE is a collective project that involves inhabitants of Venice, international experts and professionals to re-think the city, to re-vitalize it and to re-appropriate it. By learning from the experience of ASC (Associazione Sociale per la Casa – Social Association for Housing) and of Rebiennale (permanent recycling workshop of materials from the Biennale of Venice) – both practices are aimed at re-using and redefining the urban habitat of Venice –, it sprang HOMEMADE. HOMEMADE is an experimental workshop which stimulates a sense of belonging, which advocates for the right to the city and for the freedom to choose a sustainable future. HOMEMADE aimes to: - stimulate participatory and awareness processes - redefine the urban space as a community space - re-imagine a city in which inhabitants are able and allowed to decide about needs and priorities - promote the coexistence between the rural and the urban in the lagoon of Venice - encourage a sustainable social tourism The project originated from the collaboration between ASC, Rebiennale, Emiliano Gandolfi, Lucia Babina/iStrike, Exyzt and Refunc, and the participation of Anomalie Urbane (IUAV). HOMEMADE intends to give a voice to inhabitants of Venice and to allow them to decide, through their active participation in a process of transformation, in what kind of city they want to live and cohabit.
Lu Cafausu: luoghi, assenze, iper-luoghi,
territori, transiti e permanenze, on occasion of Dov’è
casa? - Nomads in Res, organized by Soundres in Lecce, 22nd July 2008.
In the panel: Lucia Babina (cultural producer), Emiliano Gandolfi (architect and curator of the Padiglione Italia at the XI Biennale of Architecture in Venezia 2008), and the artists Giancarlo  Go to the Soundres website
Presentation
of the book Networked Cultures (eds. Peter Moertenboeck
and Helge Mooshammer, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008) which took place in the NAi, 1st May 2008.
In the panel: Emiliano Gandolfi (curator at the NAi and of the Biennale of Venice of Architecture , 2008), Sudeep Dasgupta (professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam), Lucia Babina (cultural producer and president of Moderators: Peter Moertenboeck (fellow at Goldsmith University, London) and Helge Mooshammer (founder and member of ThinkArchitecture).  Go to the Networked Cultures website |