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Reolad, April 2024

Venerdì 26 Aprile 2024, è l'una di mattina? di notte? Per noi è ancora il 25 Aprile. Siamo in otto, ospiti arrivano, il "terzo inverno" è tra di noi sincopato da fiori sbocciati. E' da più di un anno che abito qua fisso, passando cambiamenti radicali di vita e di persona. Sento spesso l'esigenza di mettere per iscritto i miei pensieri ma per qualche motivo a me ignoto non ci riesco mai. Ma ora è il momento.

Quest'anno sarà all'insegna (per quanto sia possibile) di vita monastica, concentrarsi sulla casa, sugli studi, sulla creazione e generazione. Conoscere le piante che sorgono attorno alla vallata è decisamente un'urgenza, molto più che capire come racimolare denaro per andare al supermercato. Ho una ri-svolta naive decisamente profonda, conscio che dall'estero è attitudine naive ma dentro il mio cuoricino è disperazione allegra.

Non riesco più ad avere una posizione globale attiva, non mi va per niente più la politica da stadio. Irrita più di prendere a mani nude l'ortica. Io diserto, ed è una posizione presa estremamente consciamente. Ci sono situazioni alla base del marasma della complessità che devono essere messe in discussione e dato che le stratificazioni di essa sono state create tramite sistemi sviluppatosi in tempi umanamente lunghi servirebbe forse altrettanto tempo per dismetterli. Cambiare nell'immediato il mondo è irreale, crearsi il proprio mondo è doveroso.

Quasi tre anni fa registravo con Louisa ed Enri la seconda puntata della Radio. Parlavo di Cà de Monti come una TAZ. Ora è una PAZ. Una zona permanentemente autonoma. Certo, il borghetto non è solo e sempre autonomo, ma il modo e la ricerca su come abitare (a) Cà de Moni è in continuo divenire. La ricerca per trovare l'equilibrio per vivere in modo collettivo è tanto perenne tanto quanto quella per arrivare ad una situazione di anarchia assoluta, intesa come massimo equilibrio ed eguaglianza ecosistemica.

Some thoughts about Habitat (2022?)

Habitat is a concept, is a principle, is a living project, is an expanded family, is a collective workshop, is a chaotic incubator of ideas, is a chili place for playing, is rurality -- which attempts to reactivate the rurality areas.

Habitat is a repository of Ideas. We question the meaning of living in its whole spectrum, from the architecture of a place to the intimacy of the single, from the narration we want to embrace to the ones we want to create, setting the collective moment of labor and of play.

Finding the rituals in the everyday, in the objects, during the meal, during its preparation, at the fire, at the woods, performing it. Remixing ancient traditions with care, or inventing them. Celebrating the unkown with performances full of situated meaning.

We are set in a hill in the italian Appennino Tosco-Romagnolo, named Ca' de Monti, and at the very top of the hill we have a big rock simulating an Holy Mountain.

An Holy Mountain is a sacred place recurrent in different religions and subject of many legends.

Even after spent months around here, we still havn't really figured out if the Holy Mountain is natural or artificial; rumors said that the owner of the land wanted to built an airport for ultra-light airplane: it could be that the Holy Mountain has been generated after preparatory work for it.

Next to the Holy Mountain there is an Holy Antenna: the national mobile service installed on the hill a 4G (or 5G, it has to be understood) antenna; from our cottage we can see another antenna on the other hill. It's clear there is a constellation of antenna in order to spread on the valley mobile internet. Even if we are inside the constellation of antennas, is very rare that mobile internet and phones call work. This create a particular urbanism: we don't think the urbanistic discipline in a mere architectural infrastructure meaning, but we imagine the urbanism as the dynamic that happens in the ecosystem. In other words, we question how to dwell the territory.

Not having the constant signal on our device generates another way of living. The approach on the everyday actions is just different, if you want to call your grandparents you have to find the signal walking around, and it's not easy. But we accept it, there are no goals to try to get better connections.

(There is just one mobile service which work, probably the antenna's owner one, but just a few habitants got that service)

Anyway, we have our internet access point. A long-range WiFi service gives us the access to the global network, the Internet. A little parabola is the meta-bridge between our hill and the "out there".

Further, we self-host our digital realm. It means we have our server in our cottage (where also this wiki is running in it) linked to our router.

The first principle of digital infrastructure's morphology of Habitat is the radio spectrum. Without telecomunication we would not have any internet.

The little parabola gives the connection to a router in the co-working room, in fact the urbanism in that room is particular. You can freely infinite scroll only there.

We are proud to live in the rurality, but we are aware of the global complexity. Our main goal is not changing the entire world, but is to build our world. Live in Milan or Rotterdam is not the only way of living.

!It's a matter of building and making:

• Sense Making
• Community Building

Sense-making: what can we take into account for a new community?
Community-Building: how can we create our immaterial sense?

We must have a constant dialogue with the world out there: we are ultra-territorial.

Ultra-Territorial

The etymology of ultra comes from latin and it got a double meaning:

• Beyond
• Extremely

Ultra is a prefix, and we are using it in front of "territorial". Our approach to the territory is indeed double:

An extreme territorial approach, giving extreme importance to the land we are living in, preferring local assets. We are currently experimenting also local connectivity such as local networks or AM beacons.

A beyond the land approach, recognizing the limits of the borders; in practical terms, for instance, using external places and assets to develop different meaning of publications: using the Station at the Wilem de Koonig Academy in Rotterdam to print booklets; another simple example is just use internet, like use it to download softwares aimed to create local access points.

Those two approaches are in dialogue, generating a multitude of different situations. In between you can find the situations created in the villages near by such as Portico and San Benedetto in Alpe, Rocca San Casciano and Tredozio.