Habitat
c/o Cà de Monti,
Via I Monti 30,
Tredozio (FC)
"Habitat is not just an opportunity to work together with other realities. Habitat seeks to find a new way of doing so. Habitat brings the place to life through the practices of all its participants. It is a way to experiment with more hybrid practices and new cultural communities, which are extremely necessary in our contemporary times. The surrounding conditions required to do this are those of conviviality and sharing, which is why there are not only projects in Cà de Monti and Tredozio, but a community of people who know each other, build bonds by sharing a place, imagining new forms of existence for our future."
Parasite2.0Habitat is a cult(r)ural settlement and collective workshop situated in the village of Cà de Monti, 5 km from Tredozio (FC) — in the heart of the Appennini between Romagna and Tuscany.
Since January 2022, with the permanent settlement of an initial group of people, Habitat has become a home, a collective experiment in co-habitation, as well as a site for present's cultural fermentation. Throughout the year, ever-changing groups of permanent and temporary residents, friends and wanderers come together to live, share, imagine, and build new spheres of collectivity through a multitude of creative languages applied to the context.
After much work, we’ve opened new spaces and are now happy to announce that Cà de Monti is ready to welcome new cycles of residencies. The house is establishing itself as a place of exchange, interpolation, and aggregation of diverse identities, knowledge, and approaches—events and workshops, situationisms and micro-festivals—where guests (both human and soft quadrupeds) build, share, and care together for spaces, tools, and processes.
Starting May 2025, we reopen our doors to welcome new habitants, collectives, and informal groups. We are looking for:
to live and inhabit (in) Cà de Monti for medium-long terms (up to 3 months), and contribute to the formation, maintenance, and branching of that microcosm that is Habitat.
Cà de Monti is a place of hospitality, conviviality, research and production, in contact with the territory. The settlement consists of two buildings and a small (consecrated) church, situated on a hilltop 5km from Tredozio, overlooking the border between Romagna and Tuscany. The village was originally an old rest stop on the edge of the Casentinesi Forests Park, nestled within 250 hectares of pinewoods, chestnut groves, ancient forests, and a vibrant wildlife reserve.
During your stay, you’ll have access to various work and daily living spaces. We offer our knowledge, ranging from food transformation to publishing, music to self-building. We speak the languages imagination as well as of programming.
If you want to learn or develop a specific project or practice, we can help define a path together, and if needed, activate someone to assist you. In case you may need specific tools/materials, we can organize them for you in advance. We welcome a need and try to make it a shared opportunity and facility. (e.g. stationery, screen printing and darkroom materials, textiles, wood...).
What you’ll find:
At Cà de Monti, you’ll always (or almost always) find Chiara, Federico, Giuseppe, Ronco, and especially on weekends, Jacopo and Enrico.
Habitat and Distretto A — as a non-profit cultural association for social promotion — is also supported by its members and habitants, through their human, cultural, and economic contributions, which help keep the Habitat ecosystem alive: Cà de Monti, its spaces, tools and the materials provided.
Depending on the length of your stay and your needs, we will suggest a hospitality solution that includes just about everything you might need.
At the bottom of the page, you’ll find a link to the application form. We just need your contact info, a short description of who you are and what you do, and maybe your perspective on the world. For longer stays (1–3 months), we’ll schedule a pre-call to evaluate conditions and feasibility together.
This is calculated based on the length of your stay and room type. The contribution includes a bed and/or room, linens (if specified), and access to all living and working spaces at Cà de Monti.
Rooms are divided as follows:
Stay contribution: €0
For more specific needs or for stays of 1 to 3 months, get in touch and tell us about your proposal.
It’s important to note that we don’t require fixed goals or outcomes. We trust in the spontaneity and sharing among people and place. We invite and collaborate in understanding the context and its inhabitants, which is what allows for the spontaneous building and sharing of moments, projects and relationships. During your stay, you’ll also be actively involved in caring for, cleaning, and maintaining shared spaces and tools. You will almost certainly play a role in this big house that is Habitat. It’s good to imagine yourself in a flexible and dynamic environment, where the collective organizes itself day by day to optimize resources, costs, and consumption.
→ Read our Commons, an index (never too exhaustive) of many practicalities and considerations that will help you understand the context you’re about to enter and become part of. The Commons will also guide you before and during your time at Habitat and Cà de Monti.