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"Archivio" is an ever-growing publication and archive curated by Habitat's current and past residents. It is built with MediaWiki, a wiki software that allows the creations of hypertext publications collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, directly using a web browser.

By Intertwining and at the same time declining the specific pre-existing context, Habitat has been conceived as a facilitator of immediate, reciprocal possibilities for the artistic and cultural development of the territory, using research, crafting and the speculative action of the imagination. A place-based strategy that recognizes the importance of the (im)material landscape and the need for careful knowledge built from below, as an essential basis for the activation of oriented interventions that - using the territory as a place of inspiration and action - learn how to collect and rework his precious micro-territorial heritage.

Il vulcanino di Monte Busca, Illustrazione: Ilaria Marzolla, Luglio 2021

In vista di nuovi possibili finanziamenti, ci auguriamo di poter presto lanciare specifiche open call per estendere il network della residenza. L'obiettivo sarà di offrire possibilità di ricerca, sviluppo e produzione a individui e collettivi che manifestino l'interesse di intervenire nell'ambito specifico ultra-territoriale di Habitat, ricevendo un contributo per il soggiorno e la produzione.

Nel frattempo, le porte e gli spazi di Cà de Monti sono aperti per ospitare persone, collettivi, eventi e laboratori durante tutto l'anno! Scopri di più: #Porte Aperte!

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Habitat @Art Meets Radical Openness

(20.05.2022)

15th—18th June 2022
AMRO – Art Meets Radical Openness
Linz, Austria

Habitat and Varia will collaborate on a networked documentation layer of the AMRO festival. The content gathering part will be a shared effort, from which two publishing formats will be rendered: a printed bulletin (AMRO Times) and an online radio platform (AMRO Tribes).

Calling all quote enthusiasts, micro loggers, amateur photographers and partial documenters to join the editorial team of the AMRO Times! All together we will gather material to build a collective memory of the festival and feed-forward it in a printed form into the networks of networks surrounding AMRO.

We will introduce a networked workflow based on pads, RSS feeds and web-to-print techniques. The gathering of content will happen throughout the festival and can be done in a range of formats. Roles can be rotated, source credibility can be fluid, authorship can be blurred, opinions can be bent, consent will be practised.

More information can be found on the AMRO's website.

AMRO Times' Pins by Varia

Forno Vagabondo

(15.05.2022)

"Impastiamo e inforniamo futuri desiderabili" - Forno Vagabondo

Matteo e Flora di Forno Vagabondo ci hanno raggiunto a bordo del loro Westfalia da Bolzano, e hanno speso con noi una settimana. Hanno condiviso con noi le loro conoscenze sulla panificazione, sui materiali poveri e le tecniche di lavorazione manuali. Così, oltre che aver costruito un compost per il futuro orto di Cà de Monti, con l’argilla recuperata vicino a Cà de Monti hanno progettato un forno per il pane, a cui abbiamo dato vita con tutte le nostre mani. Da ora il nostro forno vagabondo è pronto per avventurarsi in sessioni nomadi di panificazione. Che sia questo un modo per ridare vita ad un qualche borgo abbandonato? Lo scopriremo presto.

"The activities of the bakery are an opportunity to meet, exchange and experiment, with the aim of creating a community network that brings people closer to issues such as sustainability, biodiversity and care for the territory, through the practice of convivial bread-making. The passion for bread, curiosity and the desire to discover and share, animate our path and guide us in kneading desirable futures" Forno Itinerante on Wooff

La costruzione del forno, 14 Maggio 2022

Cave Recordings with Funclab Records

(10.05.2022)

Over the last few days Andrea Dissimile - Mecna's and 72h Post Fight's drummer - together with Turenne and Prev from Funclab Records, came back to Habitat to experiment with outdoor drum recording techniques. We dove in an abandoned underground chalk quarry to grab every reflection the cave had to offer. Needless to say, the results are extraordinary: the sound of the drum kit blending with the environment, finding its place in the natural soundscape.

More news will be available on Funclab Records' streams.

Stills from the recording session in the secret cave.

Event: Broadcast from Planet Garden

(16.04.2022)

Habitat and Immediate Spaces' Master from Sandberg Instituut are delighted to invite you to an evening of ceremonies, narrations, transmissions, tarots reading, visual arrangements and impressed soundscapes as a result of the week-long residency "Prole di Zeno. Broadcasts from Planet Garden, held by 19 students from Immediate Spaces' Master and Habitat's residents in Cà de Monti from 09.04 to 17.04.2022.

˜”*°•.˜”*°• Today, from 15:00 you're invited to join us in Cà de Monti or visit Planet Radio, the online environment we created to broadcast the event. •°*”˜.•°*”˜

Planet Radio's programme for Saturday 16th April, Cà de Monti.

Studio For Immediate Spaces at Habitat

(10.04.2022)

Le due classi del master Studio for Immediate Spaces del Sandberg Instituut di Amsterdam, insieme a loro coordinatore Julian Schubert saranno ospiti di Habitat per il programma "Prole di Zeno. Broadcasts from Planet Garden". Dopo aver trascorso una settimana a Roma, si sposteranno a Cà de Monti a Tredozio, dove saranno residenti dal 9 al 17 Aprile. Un piacere per noi, oltre che un’importante opportunità per la sperimentazione di pratiche e linguaggi per l’immaginazione collettiva di un nuovo paesaggio culturale per la Romagna toscana.

Prole di Zeno. Broadcasts from Planet Garden
Studio for Immediate Spaces at Habitat
Sunday 09.04 – Sunday 17.04.2022

Prole di Zeno is situated in a rural future scenario in the Romagna toscana's landscape, in a garden that will span the world just as the current urban condition reshapes what has been there before. When in an interplay of draughts and floods a comforting and nourishing environment can’t be taken as granted, nature needs to be cared for. Yet the planetary garden in its ubiquitous condition wont be the focus but the context of the artefacts being produced in this workshop referring to peasant Zeno whose practice Superstudio documented as part of their project on „Cultura Materiale Extraurbana“. Artefacts – analog as well as digital, sheets of paper as well as radio waves – will give an idea of a life mediating between the observed and the imaginary, the local and the cosmopolitan, the archaic and hi-tech. The artefacts hint on potential rituals, habits and tools embedded in this new circular, post-fossil, post-orientational, new bucolic lifestyle, yet they wont explain all aspects of that life comprehensively. They will paint an image by an idea of the food being eaten, the music be heard, the discussion be held.

Studio For Immediate Spaces' group picture in Rome, April 2022

Collective Memory: on Documenting and Archiving Alternative Housing Strategies

(01.03.2022)

15th April 2022

12:30 - 14:30 Habitat will take part of the workshop Collective Memory: on Documenting and Archiving Alternative, part of Housing Futures Festival, organised by Indipendent School for the City at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.

"What strategies are there to document and preserve the tactics, practices and spaces related to alternative housing for current and future generations? This two-day workshop looks at the role of the archive and archiving as a long-term strategy, and discusses examples of both autonomous and institutional archives and tools and strategies to collectively document, select, preserve and make information accessible. From annotating and anonymising information, to using documents in (legal) processes and the collective caretaking of archives. In the second part of the workshop we will research and practice different ways of collectively archiving autonomous communities and their spaces."

Check Housing Future's programme

With: Simone Rots (Independent School for the City), Tashina Blom (ERC_ReACT, Utrecht University), Eef Vermeij (International Institute for Social History), Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia (Lancaster University), Federico Poni (Habitat, Cà de Monti in Italy), Kavita Ramakrishnan (University of East Anglia), Woonwerkpand Tetterode, René Boer, Setareh Noorani, Marina Otero Verzier, Katía Truijen.

Graphic design: Kirsten Spruit

Habitat @FIBER'S Reassemble Lab: Natural Intelligence, Amsterdam

(07.03.2022)

Habitats' infrastructure will be presented by Federico Poni at Natural Intelligence, the third part of FIBER’s Reassemble Lab, which takes place between 10 and 13th March in Amsterdam and that "will explore alternative internet infrastructures based on earthly dynamics, low-carbon solutions and ecological ethics".

12th March 2022
at FIBER'S Reassemble Lab
@A Lab, Amsterdam (NL)

First moments of life for our webserver, installed in Cà de Monti. Courtesy: Federico Poni, December 2022

Habitat Radio 006: a new episode

(07.02.2022)

A new podcast is now available on Habitat Radio: a conversation with Camilo Garcia Aycardi, Floor Van Meeuwen, Avital Barkai, Anna Sandri, students at Experimental Publishing, Piet Zwart Institute - Rotterdam. In this episode we talk about collecting stones, falling stars and moving sculpture(s). The Nomad Table. Camilo Garcia Aycardi, Floor Van Meeuwen, Avital Barkai, Anna Sandri, August 2021

Alecio Ferrari and Anna Carol using Habitat as a living Set

(17.01.2022)

Alecio Ferrari has chosen Habitat as a living Set for Anna Carol's upcoming album on Nufabric Records. Anna Carol is a nu-soul singer and songwriter based in Bolzano. Together with Alecio Ferrari - a still-life oriented talented photographer based in Milan and Rotterdam, Eric (Assistant), Giulia and Cinzia, they spent 4 days in Cà de Monti to work on her latest cover pictures. It was a pleasure to see the team work evolving, while including some artworks as a part of the scenography such as the nomad sculpture(s) designed by Camilo Garcìa Aycardi, Floor Van Meeuwen, Anna Sandri, Avital Barkai and the sculpture made by Leonardo De Marchi.

A detail of the Nomad Sculpture(s). Picture by Alecio Ferrari, January 2022

Porte Aperte!

(01.01.2022)

Habitat 2022 →A→year→long→Residency

A partire da Gennaio 2022, Cà de Monti - il borgo in cui Habitat si sta stanziando permanentemente, apre le sue porte per tutto l'anno, grazie ad una azione congiunta tra Habitat e l'associazione culturale Distretto A.

Sarà possibile quindi risiedere e lavorare a Cà de Monti, per periodi di breve, medio e lungo termine. Offriamo spazi di vita, laboratori e strumenti condivisi per poter creare e fare ricerca, immergendosi nell'atmosfera conviviale della residenza, privilegiati dal silenzio dei monti e delle vicine Foreste Casentinesi. Se sei interessato e pensi di voler passare un po' di tempo fuori-dai-radar, conoscere nuove persone, stimolare pratiche di creazione manuali e collettive, inviaci una mail a info@habitattt.it. Saremo felici di accogliere ogni richiesta e valutare coordinatamente ogni possibile sviluppo.

Cà de Monti, vista dal sentiero. Fotografia: RFM, Agosto 2021

Habitat @SPRINT, Spazio Maiocchi

(25.11.2021)

Habitat will take part of the 9th edition of SPRINT—Independent Publishers and Artists’ Books Salon, an international exhibition dedicated to independent publishing and artists’ books born in 2013 from an idea of O’ non-profit association and curated by the artist Dafne Boggeri.

"For this ninth edition, SPRINT presents a selection of small self-produced experiences and more structured publishing houses, all with a common root: the freshness of the projects and the research of contents, formats, languages, insights and attitude."

SPRINT—Independent Publishers and Artists’ Books Salon 9° edition
26–27–28 November 2021
Spazio Maiocchi, Via Maiocchi 7, Milano

Colophon

Habitat è un progetto a cura di Jacopo Lega, realizzato con il sostegno dell'associazione Distretto A e Arch. Bianca Maria Canepa

• Jacopo Lega - Direzione
• Ilaria Marzolla - Coordinatrice ultra-territoriale
• Enrico Tarò - Radio e Comunicazione
• Federico Poni - Infrastrutture
• Lorenzo Travaglini - Coordinatore locale
• Bianca Maria Canepa – Amministrazione

con il supporto di:

• ALPI – Modigliana (IT)
• XPUB – Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (NL)

in collaborazione con:

• Parasite 2.0 (IT)/(UK)
• FLEE (FR)/(CH)
• 47011 Records (IT)
• Fototeca Manfrediana (IT)
• Funclab Records (IT)

Media Partner:

• Ptwschool.com

L'edizione di Agosto 2021 è stata realizzata grazie al supporto di Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì