Beni conviviali

Background

The Rural Commons Festival is an itinerant and cross-valley event (organized by four interdisciplinary curators along with contributors and local partners) with the aim to collect, discover and regenerate rural collective practices. It is framed by three thematic tracks about community resources, economies, and heritage and takes place in three valleys of southern Trentino: Giudicarie (21-23.05.2021), Vallagarina (28-30.05.2021), and Terragnolo (04-06.06.2021). During three days on each territory, a transversal program is covered in form of research symposiums, exploratory walks, construction workshops, artistic performances, and open dialogues.

Beni Conviviali

𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚍𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚝𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎? 𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚍𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛? 𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚍𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚊 𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎?

Our mission is to create spaces, find a common language, and enable formats to bond the territories and the participants throughout the stages of the Rural Commons Festival. Given, as a result, Beni Conviviali; four interlinked and interactive elements that create a feeling of belonging and interconnection.

The Common Bracelet gives a feeling of belonging, placed inside the guiding map and is thought to be knotted by the help of another participant, as an intentional convivial interaction and act of communing and interdependency.

The Guiding map helps people to get an overview of the program at the festival, to orientate themselves in the festival spot, and to sort out their own thoughts. They can map their route of the exploratory walk and are inspired to think about the notion of commons. Every participant gets one copy by entering the festival as a personal kit. A QR-code connects to the digital common map and ensures to follow future and past reflections.

The Common Map serves as a connecting element of the three different stages of the Rural Commons Festival and works as an instrument of exchange. It moves from west to east and collects transvallive impressions, appreciations, and imaginaries of all participants, who can also access through a digital version of the map. As a result, it builds a work base to continue the reflections on desirable presents and futures around the topic of commons.

The Common Flag serves as an identification testimonial that travels. It was passed through every curator at the closure of every festival stage.

Design Process = Conviviality

During every trip and throughout the festival we shared meaningful activities with extended and deepened relationships, defining and developing the outcome from within.  Diverse exploratory field and prototyping trips, a convivial co-creation process with Camposaz, and close collaboration with a diverse and big community throughout three valleys of Southern Trentino are the essence of this project.

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