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.

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.

The FieldTrip / Worskhop C4R in Bucharest was continued by the roundtable discussion « From local to planetary : changing the way of life » where participated Gilles Clément, Constantin Petcou, Doina Petrescu, Stefan Pop, the Tranzit.ro team and a large public. The introduction by Raluca Voinea noticed the importance of this kind of open discussion as part of the C4R project. Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou presented the evolution of a driven-citizens ecological transition strategy (R-Urban) in a global environnemental context which is quickly deteriorating (summaries of the GIEC report were published the previous day). Gilles Clément demonstrated the importance of water for organisms at different scales, as well as the cultural stereotypes that must be overcome by professionals who want to fight against an excessive anthropization of the planet. A discussion with the audience allowed us to explore some ways of thinking grounded in the local context. Many thanks to the Tranzit.ro team for this perfect planning and to all the participants (despite the Covid and the heatwave!) !

A public event: Gilles Clément in dialogue with Civic Movement R-Urban 27 July 2021, 6 pm Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, Calea Victoriei 151, Bucharest “As planetary gardeners, we depend on all the biological diversity that we harness for a living. We must preserve it to ensure a future. What kind of model do we want to develop, to allow both the exploitation of diversity for the benefit of an expanding world population, and the preservation, in quality and quantity terms, of that diversity on which we depend? We must respond to this question as quickly as possible if we are not to succumb to the inevitability of irreversible forces of destruction, but rather to develop in every conceivable field a mental territory of optimism – a garden.” (Gilles Clément, 2021) Gilles Clément is a French gardener, landscape designer, botanist, entomologist and writer. He is the author of several groundbreaking concepts in the framework of landscaping, such as “moving garden” (jardin en mouvement), “planetary garden” (jardin planétaire) and “third landscape” (tiers paysage). For his many landscape projects including the André Citroën Park, the Quai Branly Garden or the Henri-Matisse Park in Lille, he has received the “Grand Prix du paysage“ in 1998. Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou (atelier d’architecture autogérée) develop ecological projects carried out with/by citizens, nomadic devices and urban strategies. For their projects (which include EcoBox, Passage 56, R-Urban, Wiki Village Factory, Vision 2030 Seine Saint Denis) they have received a number of international awards including Resilient Building Prize 2018 and European Political Innovation Prize in Ecology 2017. Constantin Petcou and Doina Petrescu represent R-Urban, a civic movement which supports the emergence of alternative models of living, producing and consuming between the urban and the rural. The event in Bucharest is organised by tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti and AAA as part of the project C4R. Jardin Arche de la Défense. Gilles Clément Agrocité Biodiversité, 2014. R-Urban, aaa

Reporting from the annual Travelling Farm Museum tours, we bring you snapshots, stories and/or know-hows learned from them by the hosts, members of the Museum