27 MARCH 2021 SEMINAR RECORDING: RESILIENCE GOVERNANCE THROUGH COMMONS [00:15:00] Introduction [00:22:10] Presentation of BigBlueButton [00:34:35] Presentation of the seminar [00:41:43] Presentation of the C4R project [00:51:56] Pecha Kucha Intentional communities [00:53:55] CLTBruxelles (Sophie Ghyselen, BE) / https://cltb.be/fr/ [01:02:38] MOBA Housing SCE (Ana Džokić & Marc Neelen, RS & NL) / https://www.moba.coop [01:07:35] Asilo Filangeri (IT) / http://www.exasilofilangieri.it/ [01:17:47] NetHood (Ileana Apostol, CH); http://nethood.org/ Open civic communities [01:26:26] ZAD de Notre Dame Des Landes (Isabelle Fremeaux, FR) ; https://zad.nadir.org/ [01:33:43] Agrocité Hubs (Pascale Meker & Constantin Petcou, FR) / https://www.facebook.com/AgrociteBagneux https://www.facebook.com/AgrociteColombesGenevilliers [01:49:00] Fédération Murs à Pêche de Montreuil (Clément Girard, FR) / https://federationmursapeches.jimdofree.com/ Multi-scale networks [02:07:14] R-Urban (Doina Petrescu, FR & Andreas Lang, UK) R-Urban is a citizen-driven ecological transition strategy that was initiated in 2008 by AAA and subsequently developed on the basis of multiple partnerships: local actors, municipalities, NGOs, traders, researchers, residents. This strategy has made it possible to build several specific units in the Paris and London region. http://r-urban.net/ [02:17:53] Transition Vallée de la Bièvre (Simon Burkovic, FR) / https://agendavalleedelabievre.jimdofree.com/ Shared expertise, P2P, cooperativism [02:27:43] femProcomuns (Monica Garriga, ES) / https://femprocomuns.coop/ [02:33:54] Chartes des communs urbains / Remix the commons / https://wiki.remixthecommons.org/ [02:41:54] DisCO (Stacco Troncoso, ES) / https://disco.coop/ Experiences of resilience governance through commons [02:53:50] Keynote Maria Francesca De Tullio (IT) http://www.exasilofilangieri.it/ [04:22:58] Keynote David Bollier (USA) http://www.bollier.org/ [05:02:22] Discussion [05:45:56] Transversal discussion between the working groups and formulation of hypothesys of possible tools to be shared with other project leaders, activists and researchers.

An exhibition organised in the frame of the project C4R (Cultures for Resilience), by tranzit.ro, in collaboration with Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée (FR), Casco Art Institute (NL), Nethood (CH), in partnership with Minitremu Association (RO) and supported by the Creative Europe Program of the European Commission. 2 – 15 July 2023 Riverside Pavilion / Children’s Park Ion Creangă, Timișoara A research exhibition comprising documentation produced in the C4R activities, as well as artworks and documents related to a localised understanding of resilience. The first edition of the exhibition took place in July 2022 in Bucharest, moving to Sofia in September 2022 in an adapted version and with some works presented in premiere. The third edition in Timișoara shows a selection of works from the previous two editions, alongside new contributions that respond to the context of the project and to Minitremu Art Camp 8 intended for high-school students. The new iteration of the exhibition expands the different understandings of the concept of resilience – both related to nature’s regenerative (im)possibilities amidst the climate challenges of the current times, and to the different forms of organization in the rural and urban areas based on an ecological, sustainable and communitarian thinking and acting. Apart from the existing research related to mapping several ecologial farms in Romania, the video presentation of 20 more artistic initiatives in nature and the rural, the presentation in Timisoara includes new initiatives and artistic work from the region closer to Banat: Healthy Places, a co-design model for green and social regeneration of community spaces in Timisoara run by Studio Peisaj; a work by Nita Mocanu documenting the results of the spruce bark beetle invasion caused by draughts and destroying the forests in the Apuseni; or Andreea Medar & Mălina Ionescu’s long research into the accidental water leak in Racoti village which has created in time a mini-delta, being the main source of water supply for the local inhabitants. The exhibition is designed as an informative and learning space activated by the artists invited in the Minitremu Art Camp 8. Participants: * atelier d’architecture autogérée, r-urban, CASCO, nethood, Remix the commons, tranzit.ro; * Gilles Clément, Georgiana Strat; * Alex Axinte, Bogdan Iancu, Monica Stroe, Alexandru Vârtej; * GreenMogo, Legumim/ Gastronaut, Luca’s Farm, Nettle Garden, Țopa Farm, Soil and Soul, Seed Bank “Casa Semintelor”; * Delia Popa, Vlad Brăteanu, Eduard Constantin, Oto Hudec, Anamaria Pravicencu, Andreea Medar & Mălina Ionescu, Nita Mocanu, Roberta Curcă, Studio Peisaj, TerraPia; * Ovidiu Țichindeleanu; * Carambach (Adriana Chiruță), Cecălaca/Csekelaka Cultural Studio (Oana Fărcaș), Crețești Studio-Garden (Delia Popa), Cucuieti Permaculture (Otilia & Radu Boeru), The Dendrological Park Romanii de Jos (V. Leac), Drenart (Stoyan Dechev, Olivia Mihălțianu), The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life (Dana Andrei, Edi Constantin, Valentin Florian Niculae), The House of Light and Information (Matei Bejenaru), Intersecția Residency (Emanuela Ascari), Jan Hála House (Zuzana Janečková), LATERAL AIR (Cristina Curcan, Lucian Indrei), Muze. Gemüse Initiative (Maria Balabaș & Vlad Mihăescu), The Rajka Orchard (Martin Piaček), Rădești House (Irina Botea Bucan & Jon Dean), Reforesting project (Vasilis Ntouros, Dora Zoumpa), Siliștea Future Studios (Adelina Ivan, Ioana Gheorghiu, Virginia Toma, Ramon Sadîc, Robert Blaj, Vlad Brăteanu), Slon Residency (META Cultural Foundation, Raluca Doroftei), Solar Gallery (Ariana Hodorcă & Albert Kaan), Watermelon Residency (Daniela Pălimariu, Alexandru Niculescu), Na záhradke Gallery (Oto Hudec), Khata-Maysternya/House-Workshop (Bogdan Velgan, Taras Grytsiuk, Olga Dyatel, Ekaterina and Olga Zarko, Alyona Karavai, Yulia Kniupa, Taras Kovalchuk, Magda Lapshyn, Anna Mygal, Sasha Moskovchuk, Svyat Popov, Tanya Sklyar, Natalia Trambovetska, Vilya and Ivanka Chupak); symbiopoiesis (Andrei Nacu). * Raluca Voinea. Curator for Timișoara edition: Adelina Luft In the framework of the C4R project, tranzit.ro has looked at practices that redefine the relationship with the countryside, with land and soil, with nature, with food and natural resources, with the rural communities and with people in the big cities who are looking for sustainable alternatives to their life styles. All the partners in this project have used a variety of tools: anthropological and cultural mapping, conferences, discussions and seminars as well as digital platforms, in order to highlight different forms of resilience in our societies, in the East, West and North of Europe, touching on issues from the circuit of organic food, to sustainable building materials, forms of commons and of governance, communities structured around ecological thinking and action, and not least artistic initiatives that seek for linking with nature and the countryside. Some of these different understandings of the concept of resilience will be reflected in the exhibition Now the impulse is to live! As part of a project that is still in progress, the exhibition offers a format for continuous reflection on the topics researched. Riverside Pavilion, situated in Ion Creangă Children’s Park in Timișoara was created following the idea to continue the public space into the building, without having any steps or obstacles, so that interior and exterior merge together. Minitremu Art Camp is a yearly summer camp intended for theoretical, real or vocational high school students and students in their first years of college. The project is supported by the EC's Creative Europe - Culture programme. ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit. The event is part of "Outside the school" a component of the Knowledge fields (along with Kinema Ikon, Asociatia Foc si Pară / Indecis and Association Doar Maine) part of the national cultural programme "Timișoara – European Capital of Culture in the year 2023" and is funded by the City of Timișoara, through the Center for Projects. Exhibition title and cover image from a material on Luca’s Farm, by Alex Axinte.

At the end of July, we had the chance to visit the exhibition "Now The Impulse is to Live" organized by Tranzit.ro within the framework of the C4R project, in the offices of the Order of Architects, in Bucharest. All the exposed projects (realized in Eastern Europe) showed a new collective imagination, new directions of action for resilient and poetic, solidary and creative ways of life ... and, sometimes, even utopias in the process of realization! Congratulations for this exhibition which should circulate widely in Europe and be enriched with experiments and projects from other countries.

Almost a year ago, we had the honor to visit Gilles Clément's beautiful garden-laboratory in the Creuse. Share with us this experience via our video 'In The Plants World'(with english subtitles) : It is a concrete and long term experimentation of the idea of the "Planetary Garden", which aims to "maintain or increase diversity through a consensual practice of non-development ... and raise unproductivity to the level of politics". Enjoy your visit!

An exhibition organised in the frame of the project C4R (Cultures for Resilience), by tranzit.ro, in collaboration with Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée (FR), Casco Art Institute (NL), Nethood (CH) and in partnership with Toplocentrala (BG). 2 – 17 September 2022 Toplocentrala, 5 Emil Bersinski Street, Sofia, Bulgaria “The European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) has warned that the current drought could be the worst in 500 years.” (Euronews, 10/08/2022) Some would equate resilience today with foolishness, utopianism, naïveté. For the world is falling apart in millions of incomprehensible pieces and apparently the realist contemplation of the disaster is all we are left with. For others yet, there are seeds to be collected and re-sowed, rainwater to be stored, communities to be invested in and cared for. We will live and we will see, as a proverb in Romania says. The propulsion for living seems to be the only solution to the mess around. Living means that the now makes sense, but this belief in the living is far from just indulging in a timeless now, it is an enacted form of hope. Some would call it resilience and associate it with skills and knowledges that have been around for long and keep resurfacing, upgraded following the challenge of the current times; or with trust in non-human species, which are most of the times doing their job in protecting each other much better than sophisticated and destructive chemicals produced in sealed labs; or they would simply see resilience as the bliss of sharing (crops, ideas, friends, predictions and uncertainties). Participants: * atelier d’architecture autogérée, r-urban, CASCO, nethood, Remix the commons, tranzit.ro; * Gilles Clément, Georgiana Strat; * Alex Axinte, Bogdan Iancu, Monica Stroe, Alexandru Vârtej; * GreenMogo, Legumim/ Gastronaut, Luca’s Farm, Nettle Garden, Țopa Farm, Soil and Soul, Seed Bank “Casa Semintelor”; * Vlad Basalici, Vlad Brăteanu, Adriana Chiruță, Eduard Constantin, Oto Hudec, Delia Popa, Sorin Popescu, Anamaria Pravicencu; * Ovidiu Țichindeleanu; * New Rural Agenda, Adelina Luft; * Carambach (Adriana Chiruță), Cecălaca/Csekelaka Cultural Studio (Oana Fărcaș), Crețești Studio-Garden (Delia Popa), Cucuieti Permaculture (Otilia & Radu Boeru), The Dendrological Park Romanii de Jos (V. Leac), Drenart (Stoyan Dechev, Olivia Mihălțianu), The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life (Dana Andrei, Edi Constantin, Valentin Florian Niculae), The House of Light and Information (Matei Bejenaru), Intersecția Residency (Emanuela Ascari), Jan Hála House (Zuzana Janečková), LATERAL AIR (Cristina Curcan, Lucian Indrei), Muze. Gemüse Initiative (Maria Balabaș & Vlad Mihăescu), The Rajka Orchard (Martin Piaček), Rădești House (Irina Botea Bucan & Jon Dean), Reforesting project (Vasilis Ntouros, Dora Zoumpa), Siliștea Future Studios (Adelina Ivan, Ioana Gheorghiu, Virginia Toma, Ramon Sadîc, Robert Blaj, Vlad Brăteanu), Slon Residency (META Cultural Foundation, Raluca Doroftei), Solar Gallery (Ariana Hodorcă & Albert Kaan), Watermelon Residency (Daniela Pălimariu, Alexandru Niculescu), Na záhradke Gallery (Oto Hudec). A research exhibition comprising documentation produced in the C4R activities, as well as artworks and documents related to a localised understanding of resilience. The first edition of the exhibition took place in July 2022 in Bucharest and it is now moving to Sofia, in an adapted version, and with some works presented in premiere. In the framework of the C4R project, tranzit.ro has looked at practices that redefine the relationship with the countryside, with land and soil, with nature, with food and natural resources, with the rural communities and with people in the big cities who are looking for sustainable alternatives to their life styles. All the partners in this project have used a variety of tools: anthropological and cultural mapping, conferences, discussions and seminars as well as digital platforms, in order to highlight different forms of resilience in our societies, in the East, West and North of Europe, touching on issues from the circuit of organic food, to sustainable building materials, forms of commons and of governance, communities structured around ecological thinking and action, and not least artistic initiatives that seek for linking with nature and the countryside. Some of these different understandings of the concept of resilience are reflected in the exhibition Now the impulse is to live!. As part of a project that is still in progress, the exhibition offers a format for continuous reflection on the topics researched. CCA Toplocentrala is the new public cultural institute in Sofia, established in a close collaboration between the Sofia Municipality and the independent scene of contemporary art in Bulgaria. The centre provides a platform for performing arts and music and has an exhibition program, focused on contemporary art and its social, educational and community impact. The project is supported by the EC's Creative Europe - Culture programme. Exhibition title from a material on Luca’s Farm, by Alex Axinte Image: Zaharia Helinger: Watermelon, 1979, acrylic on cardboard. Presented by Watermelon Residency (Daniela Pălimariu, Alex Niculescu)

Saturday, 23rd of July 2022, 5-8 p.m. Discussion moderated by Adelina Luft, accompanied by dinner The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Silistea Snagovului For documenta fifteen in Kassel, the Jatiwangi art Factory has developed the New Rural Agenda—a transnational summit among rural community networks. The summit was preceded by the New Rural School, a series of knowledge and narrative exchanges in the form of conferences, amateur radio talks, and the Bulletin Rural School. It emphasized diverse perspectives from below and peripheries, challenging uniform ideas of progress and sustainability. Established in 2005, Jatiwangi art Factory (JaF) is a community that embraces contemporary arts and cultural practices as part of the local life discourse in a rural area. Their manifold activities, always involving the local public, include a video festival, a music festival, a residency program, a discussion series, and a TV and radio station. Arief Yudi Rahman is an artist, curator and cultural producer. He lives and works in Jatiwangi, Majalengka Regency, West Java, Indonesia. Since early ‘90s, he has been involved in various fine arts projects, both local and international. He co-founded Barak Gallery in Bandung (b. 1999) and co-initiated the Bandung Performance Arts Festival (b. 2000). In 2005 he founded Jatiwangi Art Factory (JaF). Adelina Luft is a curator, cultural manager and translator living between Bucharest and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In her curatorial practice she invests herself in modes of working that favor collaboration, processes, and exchanges, with an interest in minor narratives that question hegemonic forms of knowledge production. She holds a BA in Public Relations from the National University of Political Studies in Bucharest and a MA in Visual Art Studies from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. She is often invited to contribute with essays about Indonesian art, more recently for the book “A History of Photography in Indonesia” published by Amsterdam University Press. She participated in several curatorial residencies: Kuandu Museum of Fine Art in Taipei, ODD in Bucharest, and Curator’s Agenda in Vienna. The event is organised by tranzit. ro, as part of a research of resilient practices in rural and natural environments, in the framework of the project C4R (Cultures for Resilience), co-financed by the EC's Creative Europe - Culture programme.

An exhibition organised in the frame of the project C4R (Cultures for Resilience), by tranzit.ro, in collaboration with Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée (FR), Casco Art Institute (NL), Nethood (CH) and in partnership with The Romanian Order of Architects 1 – 15 July 2022 The Romanian Order of Architects, Str. Pictor Arthur Verona nr. 19, Sector 1, București Participants: * atelier d’architecture autogérée, r-urban, CASCO, nethood, Remix the commons, tranzit.ro; * Gilles Clément, Georgiana Strat; * Alex Axinte, Bogdan Iancu, Monica Stroe, Alexandru Vârtej; * GreenMogo, Legumim/ Gastronaut, Luca’s Farm, Nettle Garden, Țopa Farm, Soil and Soul, Seed Bank “Casa Semintelor”; * Maria Balabaș, Vlad Brăteanu, Adriana Chiruță, Eduard Constantin, Delia Popa, Sorin Popescu, Anamaria Pravicencu; * Ovidiu Țichindeleanu; * Carambach (Adriana Chiruță), Cecălaca/Csekelaka Cultural Studio (Oana Fărcaș), Crețești Studio-Garden, Ilfov county (Delia Popa), The Dendrological Park Romanii de Jos (V. Leac), Drenart (Stoyan Dechev, Olivia Mihălțianu), The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life (Dana Andrei, Edi Constantin, Valentin Florian Niculae), The House of Light and Information (Matei Bejenaru), Intersecția Residency (Emanuela Ascari), Jan Hála House (Zuzana Janečková), LATERAL AIR (Cristina Curcan, Lucian Indrei), Muze. Gemüse Initiative (Maria Balabaș & Vlad Mihăescu), The Rajka Orchard (Martin Piaček), Rădești House (Irina Botea Bucan & Jon Dean), Reforesting project (Vasilis Ntouros, Dora Zoumpa), Siliștea Future Studios (Adelina Ivan, Ioana Gheorghiu, Virginia Toma, Ramon Sadîc, Robert Blaj, Vlad Brăteanu), Solar Gallery (Ariana Hodorcă & Albert Kaan), Watermelon Residency (Daniela Pălimariu, Alexandru Niculescu); * Raluca Voinea, Adelina Luft. A hybrid, research exhibition comprising documentation produced in the C4R activities, artworks and documents related to a localised understanding of resilience. In the framework of the C4R project, tranzit.ro has looked at practices that redefine the relationship with the countryside, with land and soil, with nature, with food and natural resources, with the rural communities and also with people in the big cities who are looking for sustainable alternatives to their lives. All the partners in this EU-funded project have used a variety of tools: anthropological and cultural mapping, conferences, discussions and seminars as well as digital platforms, in order to highlight different forms of resilience in our societies, in the East, West and North of Europe, touching on issues from the circuit of organic food, to sustainable building materials, forms of commons and of governance, communities structured around ecological thinking and action, and not least artistic initiatives that seek for linking with nature and the countryside. Some of these different understandings of the concept of resilience will be reflected in the exhibition Now the impulse is to live!. As part of a project that is still in progress, the exhibition offers a format for continuous reflection on the topics researched. Materials included comprise documentation generated by the project (interviews, texts, photo material), sketches and plans, maps, artworks commissioned for the project (drawings, photographs, video, sound), archival material and others. The C4R project aims to foster resilient and inclusive European societies by developing participatory cultural practices of resilience and ensuring social transversality. C4R offers conditions for the production and dissemination of a diversity of cultures of resilience to counterbalance the over-hype of catastrophist productions and to influence and transform European collective imaginaries. The project is supported by the EC's Creative Europe - Culture programme. Exhibition title and cover image from a material on Luca’s Farm, by Alex Axinte Special thanks to: Despina Bădescu, Mădălin Geană, Livia Pancu, Marian Ivan, Iuliana Dumitru

The exhibition "Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills 2022 Spring Collection" opens on the 28th of May at Casco, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills (TFM) was established by Casco Art Institute and The Outsiders in 2020 after our joint initiative to enliven and common a dysfunctional farmhouse in Utrecht’s Leidsche Rijn with multiple self-initiated activities of caring, learning and sharing. Once a vast, peripheral farmland providing food to the region, Leidsche Rijn is now occupied by housing blocks and over forty-thousand human inhabitants. Deprived of its surrounding farmland, the farmhouse reactivated by The Outsiders, Casco and many other neighbours and friends was eventually sold to a private developer and repurposed as a restaurant.  Yet our commoning journey has continued, in the same way one of our initial questions – ‘’do we know where our food comes from?’’ – remains ever more relevant. Departing from the farmhouse, Casco Art Institute and The Outsiders started travelling in the region and actively explored the agricultural past and present. We started connecting with old and new farming initiatives across Leidsche Rijn, creating the possibility to un/learn and share forgotten skills of living together with nature. The Museum architecture is a mobile vehicle that merges into its environment as it travels. It is a tangible repository for a growing collection of objects, knowledge, skills, and stories. Above all, it is a repository for the TFM’s relationships between farmers, citizens, artists and non-human beings. "Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills 2022 Spring Collection" is the first collection-exhibition of the museum held at Casco Art Institute. Here, we are metaphorically and literally spring cleaning – sorting out “things” stocked not only in the depot of TFM but also in the minds of many who were part of the journey of the museum. The exhibition “re-collects” what resources and relationships have been cultivated over two special years – coinciding with the pandemic – and shares these resources and relationships with a wider public.  The exhibition-collection presents cultural tools for resilient living in times of multifaceted crises with a focus on the commons, ecology, and heritage. Among the tools presented is a series of folding screens that function as a central weaver of re-collections. In East Asian cultural traditions, the folding screen often depicts nature and written literature. Serving multiple purposes, the folding screen may be used to exhibit, divide a room, or shelter against the wind. In the context of the TFM, the screen also re-presents what was seen and experienced in various farms or farm-related initiatives in the surroundings of Leidsche Rijn that the Museum travelled to – unfolding some of memory and stories from the journey.  The exhibition-collection also launches the Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills’ regular tour program that runs through August. Visitors are cordially invited to join the tour to experience and learn from the Museum. These tours allow us to get in touch with a territory beyond the urban grid, where ecological ways of living together are practiced.

On June 21, 2022, we had the pleasure of hosting well-known Australian economist and geographer Katherine Gibson at our seminar on citizen economies in Bagneux. This was an opportunity to learn more about « diverse economies » and to practice in workshop form an alternative accounting of different forms of work for the benefit of the commons.

Halfway to Paradise A discussion about artistic initiatives’ (re)turn to nature. With: Adriana Chiruta, Irina Botea & Jon Dean, V. Leac, Daniela Palimariu, Delia Popa Sunday, 30 January 2022, 4 p.m. https://whereby.com/public-meetings An invented country for artists and scientists, in the region of Sibiu. A house-garden residency for artists and non-artists, in a village in Arges county. A small house and stripe of land for permaculture experiments, near the river Mures. A dendrology park near Horezu, dedicated to contemporary artists and writers. A residency for artists and watermelons in a small town in the south of the country, by the Danube. A studio with a greenhouse and a garden, not far from the south exit from Bucharest. These are just a few examples of spaces created by artists in natural settings, outside of the big cities, and it is a trend that has grown in the recent years, mirrored especially during the pandemic by a general interest in experimenting with life in the countryside. How can these artistic initiatives inspire more than a life-style, how can they inscribe themselves in a paradigm of understanding and living with nature rather than colonise it, how can they create communities that breathe in a different rhythm than that of precarity and hyper-consumption that characterises much of the daily life in contemporary cities?! This is hopefully the first in a series of discussions on these topics, and an attempt to connect similar initiatives and thus strengthen the models they establish. Adriana Chiruta lives and works in her favorite life-art project, a contemporary art eco-laboratory under construction since 2014, in the region of Sibiu, called Carambach, an “invented” country for artists, scientists, nature and human rights activists. She is an artist with hybrid practices. A performing arts professional, theatre director and dance passionate, with a philosophy background, she enjoys taking post-conceptual walks through different mediums (sound, video, text, etc.). Structured as performative installations, her works are meant to direct the viewers senses’ from the exterior art objects, toward themselves, as subjects of art invited to occupy the stage of their own life, personally, socially and politically. Irina Botea Bucan has developed an artist-educator-researcher methodology that questions dominant socio-political ideas and centralizes human and non-human agency as a vehicle for meaning. Jon Dean has been working in the overlapping fields of community-based participatory arts and education for over thirty years. Apart from their individual practices, they have also been collaborating on educational, artistic and cultural projects since the early 1990s. Due to their shared belief in the importance of working in non-traditional 'art spaces' they decided to literally build upon previous experiences through developing a house-garden residency for artists and non-artists (human and non-human) in the village of Radesti, Arges county. Since the beginning of 2019 they have renovated a small barn and worked alongside a wide range of local residents as well as invited guests to foster new collaborations. V. Leac is a poet and a performer in his or his friends’ art and life actions, exhibitions, films. Since 2010, he created a place of resistance, a space that survived the erosion from the river Mures, in the village of Bodrog, Arad county. Together with artists and other people from Arad and Timisoara, passionate for permaculture, they used the stripe of land between the small house and the river to create a garden with vegetables, medicinal plants, fruit, wild herbs, following a concept of multiple natures. Since 2020 he started a new project in Romanii de Jos, Valcea county, a dendrology park in which the trees planted there carry the names of his friends, artists and poets. Daniela Palimariu is an artist and a co-founding member of Sandwich collective. Sandwich started in 2016 as an artist-run space and is constantly expanding and reinventing itself. In 2022, a new project imagined by Sandwich is to be inaugurated: the Watermelon Residency, in the small town of Bechet, Dolj county, an important Danube port and close to the sandy region of Dabuleni, famous in Romania for its watermelons production. The residency programme is planned for local and international artists, who are invited to propose either research projects or site-specific works for the place. Delia Popa is a visual artist who researches the almost imperceptible space between discourse and reality, representation and control, while she constantly questions man’s insistence on detaching oneself from other animals. She depicts humans under zoomorphic forms, unveiling their cruelty towards other species, she endows plants with anthropomorphic traits and draws parallels between her work as an artist and her work as a gardener. Since 2015, she builds and uses her studio and cultivates plants in the village of Cretesti, Ilfov county, in her grandparents’ house and garden. The discussion is organised in a hybrid form, with the participants gathering in person and the public invited to join online, by accessing this link: https://whereby.com/public-meetings. * The discussion takes place in Romanian language. Host: Edi Constantin (the Experimental Station for Research) Moderator: Raluca Voinea (tranzit.ro/Bucuresti) The residency of Adriana Chiruta in Bucharest and this discussion are complementary activities to Regenerative-Reliable-Resourceful, the mapping of resilient practices in the Romanian countryside, in the field of food production and distribution, construction materials and cultural initiatives, that tranzit.ro develops in the frame of C4R project and of the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life. *The platform https://whereby.com/public-meetings can be accessed directly from an internet browser, preferably Chrome or Firefox. It doesn’t require the installation of an application or the creation of an account.