COMUNITARIA Learning from the Wind
Basic information
Project Title
COMUNITARIA Learning from the Wind
Full project title
COMUNITARIA Learning from the Wind. Free kite school for emerging communities
Category
Prioritising the places and people that need it the most
Project Description
COMUNITARIA is conceived as an alternative, open-air school based on the principles of “affordable design”, “grassroot governance” and “ludic pedagogy”, focusing mainly on establishing a permanent building workshop of a particular kind of kites called Eteria and the foundation of a community-led school that will offer flight courses for kites pilots.
Geographical Scope
Local
Project Region
Fermo, Italy
Urban or rural issues
Mainly urban
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
EU Programme or fund
No
Description of the project
Summary
COMUNITARIA is conceived as an alternative, open-air school based on the principles of “affordable design”, “grassroot governance” and of “ludic pedagogy”, focusing mainly on establishing a permanent building workshop of a particular kind of kites called Eteria developed by Lorenzo Malloni and the foundation of a school that will offer flight courses for kites pilots.
COMUNITARIA is a made up word combining the Italian words for community+air, implying practices of social integration, urban regeneration and community building of marginalized groups, based on collective design, construction and fruition of aerial sustainable flying objects.
In June 2023, in the peripheral neighborhood of Lido Tre Archi, I organized and coordinated a pilot event called COMUNITARIA in collaboration with the worldspread community of Aerocene, a project that deploys imaginary forces to coinceive a sustainable future free from fossil-fuels by the means of aerosolar flying. The outcomes of this have been the blueprint of what I am proposing here.
Working with social cooperatives who operates in the area protecting and promoting human and civil rights of migrants and sex workers, we have gathered up a group of 16 local participants to make a 3-day construction workshop of two Aerocene solar balloons that were later flown by the local beach where the participants were guided through a training process on how to fly them. The flight was attended by a large enthusiastc group of local inhabitants, with kids being especially thrilled by the whole experience.
In the wake of the great success of this initiative I have further confronted the outcomes with the cooperatives and we all agreed that it would have been beautiful and beneficial to further extend what was initiated locally with it.
I have therefore decided to get in touch and work closely with architect and artist Lorenzo Malloni to develop a long-term project there and eventually export the format to other similar cont
COMUNITARIA is a made up word combining the Italian words for community+air, implying practices of social integration, urban regeneration and community building of marginalized groups, based on collective design, construction and fruition of aerial sustainable flying objects.
In June 2023, in the peripheral neighborhood of Lido Tre Archi, I organized and coordinated a pilot event called COMUNITARIA in collaboration with the worldspread community of Aerocene, a project that deploys imaginary forces to coinceive a sustainable future free from fossil-fuels by the means of aerosolar flying. The outcomes of this have been the blueprint of what I am proposing here.
Working with social cooperatives who operates in the area protecting and promoting human and civil rights of migrants and sex workers, we have gathered up a group of 16 local participants to make a 3-day construction workshop of two Aerocene solar balloons that were later flown by the local beach where the participants were guided through a training process on how to fly them. The flight was attended by a large enthusiastc group of local inhabitants, with kids being especially thrilled by the whole experience.
In the wake of the great success of this initiative I have further confronted the outcomes with the cooperatives and we all agreed that it would have been beautiful and beneficial to further extend what was initiated locally with it.
I have therefore decided to get in touch and work closely with architect and artist Lorenzo Malloni to develop a long-term project there and eventually export the format to other similar cont
Key objectives for sustainability
“Learning by the wind” means that to build and fly Eteria kites is a practice of cooperation with meteorological forces. Eterias are wind-powered creatures that come to life only at the intersection between the pilot and the wind, making them an important perceptive tool of the natural environment that surrounds us.
Eterias are built with low-tech solutions that allow accessibility to their construction on a budget. Their structure, primarily made of pine wood, is very light and extremely solid thanks to a very specific geometrical pattern of assembly, hence generating highly efficient kites with a minimal usage of material. Even though each possible model of Eteria has its own peculiar trait, they all share the same basic construction scheme which is based on only one size of the wooden structural rods with which the structures are made. This allows a great deal of flexibility in rearranging the same materials for the making of different kites and therefore a big degree of reusability.
The geometry of the kites' sails are all based on the same cutting-pattern, making it possible to easily cut and sew them out of many different upcycled fabrics. As an example carried by architect Malloni, some of them have been made with upcycled parachute nylon.
Taking inspiration from the Aerocene project, there would also be a possibility of building and attaching to the kites some DIY electronic devices that can track air pollutants and store meteorological useful data (the altitude of detection often gives many surveying adentages) via different typologies of sensors. Each Eteria pilot would therefore have the chance to become a watchful sentinel of the effects of climate change on their local community and be an example by spreading ecological awareness through the catchy visibility of sending messages in the sky.
Eterias are built with low-tech solutions that allow accessibility to their construction on a budget. Their structure, primarily made of pine wood, is very light and extremely solid thanks to a very specific geometrical pattern of assembly, hence generating highly efficient kites with a minimal usage of material. Even though each possible model of Eteria has its own peculiar trait, they all share the same basic construction scheme which is based on only one size of the wooden structural rods with which the structures are made. This allows a great deal of flexibility in rearranging the same materials for the making of different kites and therefore a big degree of reusability.
The geometry of the kites' sails are all based on the same cutting-pattern, making it possible to easily cut and sew them out of many different upcycled fabrics. As an example carried by architect Malloni, some of them have been made with upcycled parachute nylon.
Taking inspiration from the Aerocene project, there would also be a possibility of building and attaching to the kites some DIY electronic devices that can track air pollutants and store meteorological useful data (the altitude of detection often gives many surveying adentages) via different typologies of sensors. Each Eteria pilot would therefore have the chance to become a watchful sentinel of the effects of climate change on their local community and be an example by spreading ecological awareness through the catchy visibility of sending messages in the sky.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
As shown in the attached pictures, Eterias design is inspired by the aerodynamics of insects and birds and their beauty in appearance reflects the marvelous shaping of winged creatures.
They are inorganic aerial creatures; living beings that do not respect the biological specifications of existence, thus escaping the organic and carbon-based spectrum of life. As artificial creatures they do not self-generate, they do not evolve on their own, they do not reproduce, they do not have an active metabolism, but they carry the potentiality to be generated in countless creative ways by their builders by rearranging their components following and widening the genetic instructions encoded by Lorenzo Malloni.
Since those kites are controlled via 4 lines attached to the structure, the flying experience is pretty advanced in terms of movement dynamics: Eteria’s movements can virtually be controlled in every direction in the aerial space defined by the length of their threads. This characteristic guarantees many ways of interaction between the pilots and the kites, allowing it to become a sort of collective practice or discipline with its own shared rules of interaction among kites and pilots in the various contexts in which pilots would meet up, assemble their own creature and fly together, inviting dynamics that are similar to sportive challenge or to performative action by staging choreographically, synchronized flying patterns.
The COMUNITARIA flying school can be exemplary by setting the foundation of a unique, original practice that can be done individually or shared. One of the goals of the school would thus be of creating a set of collective, open-source tools (manuals, manifestos, open-source data uploads) for simple replicability in other contexts.
They are inorganic aerial creatures; living beings that do not respect the biological specifications of existence, thus escaping the organic and carbon-based spectrum of life. As artificial creatures they do not self-generate, they do not evolve on their own, they do not reproduce, they do not have an active metabolism, but they carry the potentiality to be generated in countless creative ways by their builders by rearranging their components following and widening the genetic instructions encoded by Lorenzo Malloni.
Since those kites are controlled via 4 lines attached to the structure, the flying experience is pretty advanced in terms of movement dynamics: Eteria’s movements can virtually be controlled in every direction in the aerial space defined by the length of their threads. This characteristic guarantees many ways of interaction between the pilots and the kites, allowing it to become a sort of collective practice or discipline with its own shared rules of interaction among kites and pilots in the various contexts in which pilots would meet up, assemble their own creature and fly together, inviting dynamics that are similar to sportive challenge or to performative action by staging choreographically, synchronized flying patterns.
The COMUNITARIA flying school can be exemplary by setting the foundation of a unique, original practice that can be done individually or shared. One of the goals of the school would thus be of creating a set of collective, open-source tools (manuals, manifestos, open-source data uploads) for simple replicability in other contexts.
Key objectives for inclusion
COMUNITARIA takes its origin already as a social integration project in collaboration with non-profit organizations that deal with migrants and marginalized individuals aiming to turn upside down the prejudice on Lido Tre Archi and its 3 decades of critical social history that labeled the area as “degradeted”.
Inclusivity resonates with 3 main principles of COMUNITARIA: affordable design, grassroots-governance or self-organization and ludic pedagogy
"Affordable design" is an embed trait in Lorenzo Malloni’s Eteria’s design schemes. They are conceived to be made cheaply with materials that can be easily found anywhere in the world: the basic models just need wooden rods, pvc pipes, screws, nuts and light fabrics of all kinds. The assembly protocol is modular, standardized and schematized in a few basic rules that allow a great variety of shapes, all implying different dynamics of flight. The whole construction can be assembled and dismantled easily, facilitating transport with any means; even a 5 mt wide kite, for instance, can fit in a backpack.
"Grassroots governance" is a model of self-organization that will be developed collectively with those citizens directly involved in the project that will be willing to participate in the co-planning of it. It will serve as a economical and managerial sustainable model for those locals that will be interested in taking the responsibility of carrying on the activities of the school.
"Ludic pedagogy" is an alternative approach to institutional learning inspired by historian Johan Huizinga in his essay ‘Homo Ludens’ and it discusses the importance of the play element of culture as a new societal model. Also intended as some sort of heretical version of a school, where teaching doesn’t necessarily goes through the stereotypes of teachers, books and classrooms, it challenges space segregation and individualism of a consumerist society.
Inclusivity resonates with 3 main principles of COMUNITARIA: affordable design, grassroots-governance or self-organization and ludic pedagogy
"Affordable design" is an embed trait in Lorenzo Malloni’s Eteria’s design schemes. They are conceived to be made cheaply with materials that can be easily found anywhere in the world: the basic models just need wooden rods, pvc pipes, screws, nuts and light fabrics of all kinds. The assembly protocol is modular, standardized and schematized in a few basic rules that allow a great variety of shapes, all implying different dynamics of flight. The whole construction can be assembled and dismantled easily, facilitating transport with any means; even a 5 mt wide kite, for instance, can fit in a backpack.
"Grassroots governance" is a model of self-organization that will be developed collectively with those citizens directly involved in the project that will be willing to participate in the co-planning of it. It will serve as a economical and managerial sustainable model for those locals that will be interested in taking the responsibility of carrying on the activities of the school.
"Ludic pedagogy" is an alternative approach to institutional learning inspired by historian Johan Huizinga in his essay ‘Homo Ludens’ and it discusses the importance of the play element of culture as a new societal model. Also intended as some sort of heretical version of a school, where teaching doesn’t necessarily goes through the stereotypes of teachers, books and classrooms, it challenges space segregation and individualism of a consumerist society.
How Citizens benefit
Participating in the startup activities of the building workshop and of collective flight training is an important occasion of community building, creating a joyful cross-section within critical frames.
As already happened with the workshop held with Aerocene, the kite-building workshop has the ability to attract and involve a great cultural and generational variety of the local population, creating and progressively strengthening bonds and connections between participants throughout the duration of the activities.
Once these bonds are created, enthusiasm among the group can rise and consolidate a group that has the potential to become permanently involved in the school activities in Lido Tre Archi. This core group will be later defined as the “operational group” and will be constituted by citizens that benefit from the project on longer terms becoming the managing group of the future kite school.
This group, together with other stakeholders will later define an economically sustainable project to support the activities of the school and the purchasing of construction materials in a bottom-up process of self-empowerment.
As already happened with the workshop held with Aerocene, the kite-building workshop has the ability to attract and involve a great cultural and generational variety of the local population, creating and progressively strengthening bonds and connections between participants throughout the duration of the activities.
Once these bonds are created, enthusiasm among the group can rise and consolidate a group that has the potential to become permanently involved in the school activities in Lido Tre Archi. This core group will be later defined as the “operational group” and will be constituted by citizens that benefit from the project on longer terms becoming the managing group of the future kite school.
This group, together with other stakeholders will later define an economically sustainable project to support the activities of the school and the purchasing of construction materials in a bottom-up process of self-empowerment.
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
Innovative character
COMUNITARIA might be seen as innovative when it tackles the topic of urban regeneration because it can show effectiveness in a unique way that does not necessitate any physical and permanent urban intervention.
Within the framework of "Tactical Urbanism", the project is going to operate softly with punctual community-led temporary actions, creating collective pop-up situations ignited by the lift-off of many colorful variegated kites. These actions will enhance a renewed awareness of the urban challenges that the neighborhood has been facing in recent years, stimulating social capital among citizens in contrast to the missing responses from political institutions.
Urban regeneration as an argument that is traditionally seen through the standard lenses of urbanist, sociologist and anthropologist, is here instead observed through a kaleidoscope of practices and activities that celebrate transdisciplinarity at its utmost capacities.
Taking advantage of the participatory approaches, these disciplines can shift their research focus from object to subject, empowering those that are directly affected by their research field endorsing them with tools for self-development.
COMUNITARIA activates processes of urban regeneration by the rehabilitation of unused or interstitial public spaces of Lido Tre Archi like gardens, strips of beach, parking lots, porches and promenades, through the activities of construction and flight of the kites, reinforcing community presence in places that are usually forgotten.
Within the framework of "Tactical Urbanism", the project is going to operate softly with punctual community-led temporary actions, creating collective pop-up situations ignited by the lift-off of many colorful variegated kites. These actions will enhance a renewed awareness of the urban challenges that the neighborhood has been facing in recent years, stimulating social capital among citizens in contrast to the missing responses from political institutions.
Urban regeneration as an argument that is traditionally seen through the standard lenses of urbanist, sociologist and anthropologist, is here instead observed through a kaleidoscope of practices and activities that celebrate transdisciplinarity at its utmost capacities.
Taking advantage of the participatory approaches, these disciplines can shift their research focus from object to subject, empowering those that are directly affected by their research field endorsing them with tools for self-development.
COMUNITARIA activates processes of urban regeneration by the rehabilitation of unused or interstitial public spaces of Lido Tre Archi like gardens, strips of beach, parking lots, porches and promenades, through the activities of construction and flight of the kites, reinforcing community presence in places that are usually forgotten.
Disciplines/knowledge reflected
The network of disciplines involved is structured as: architecture and handcrafting (represented by Lorenzo Malloni), social sciences and cultural mediation (represented by community manager Marta Menghi and the cooperatives Nuova Agenzia Res and On The Road), art and events curatorship (Elisa Michelini), urbanism (involving universities and guest scholars for researching projects), gender and post-colonial studies (Elisa Michelini and visiting experts during talks and symposiums).
The Eteria kites are an expedient of visibility, they rise high into the sky sending up in the air a message that cannot be ignored by the eyes of the many, therefore becoming an attractor that can generate a temporary situation of encounter. Our wish is to bring visibility to the area and to export academic and artistic research by inviting scholars, researchers and artists to work and speculate around the topics of emancipation of marginalized peripheries, spotting a light to reverse the trends of invisibilization and discrimination of this place.
We believe that these encounters are fertile occasions of exchange as for the scholars as for the citizens by creating a transdisciplinary space where these 2 apparently distant worlds will have the occasion to meet and recognize each other.
All the representatives of different fields and of the executive groups will constantly interact in the first months when the workshops and training courses will be held in parallel to collateral events and activities that will contribut to strengthen the topics that this project is eager to move forward.
The added value of those interactions will result in communication material that will be firstly posted online and secondly published in the form of an editorial project that can be spread through the channels of all the different involved disciplines.
The Eteria kites are an expedient of visibility, they rise high into the sky sending up in the air a message that cannot be ignored by the eyes of the many, therefore becoming an attractor that can generate a temporary situation of encounter. Our wish is to bring visibility to the area and to export academic and artistic research by inviting scholars, researchers and artists to work and speculate around the topics of emancipation of marginalized peripheries, spotting a light to reverse the trends of invisibilization and discrimination of this place.
We believe that these encounters are fertile occasions of exchange as for the scholars as for the citizens by creating a transdisciplinary space where these 2 apparently distant worlds will have the occasion to meet and recognize each other.
All the representatives of different fields and of the executive groups will constantly interact in the first months when the workshops and training courses will be held in parallel to collateral events and activities that will contribut to strengthen the topics that this project is eager to move forward.
The added value of those interactions will result in communication material that will be firstly posted online and secondly published in the form of an editorial project that can be spread through the channels of all the different involved disciplines.
Methodology used
The forementioned methodologies encompassed by the 3 principles of COMUNITARIA (affordable design, grassroots governance and ludic pedagogy) can be further fragmented into detail in the following approaches.
"Participatory planning" and codesign are applied in both the construction of physical objects (kites) and the construction of communities and governance dynamics. It is an inclusive approach, fundamental to generate community-based responsiveness to prejudices and discriminations.
"Learning by doing" is a principle involved both in the workshop approach to construction and the managing of the school activities. It also relates to an alternative way of learning that is based on playfulness and hands-on practices.
"Do It Together", as an anti-isolation technique in opposition to the classic Do It Yourself approach, stimulates problem-solving by the group rather than by the individual and therefore creating bonds and connections in the very act of making something.
"Open Source", also intended as “unfinished work”, is an attitude towards constant improvement by avoiding defining boundaries of authorship and final design of a product. In this case, Eteria have the potential of being continuously improved by just mastering a few basic rules. Also the instances and definitions of the governance models are preferable to be blurry so that they can be improved by a wider community on later expansions of the project. All data, designs and knowledge can be uploaded online under Creative Commons rights to make them accessible to amateurs and professionals.
"ARTivism" as a way to render visible and empower the marginalized ones through the means of contemporary art. In the words of Vincenzo Trione ‘ARTivism is a new form of political art. ARTivists question some emergencies of our time. They open paths on the surface of the news. They engage in concrete, courageous, visionary acts. To imagine another present.’
"Participatory planning" and codesign are applied in both the construction of physical objects (kites) and the construction of communities and governance dynamics. It is an inclusive approach, fundamental to generate community-based responsiveness to prejudices and discriminations.
"Learning by doing" is a principle involved both in the workshop approach to construction and the managing of the school activities. It also relates to an alternative way of learning that is based on playfulness and hands-on practices.
"Do It Together", as an anti-isolation technique in opposition to the classic Do It Yourself approach, stimulates problem-solving by the group rather than by the individual and therefore creating bonds and connections in the very act of making something.
"Open Source", also intended as “unfinished work”, is an attitude towards constant improvement by avoiding defining boundaries of authorship and final design of a product. In this case, Eteria have the potential of being continuously improved by just mastering a few basic rules. Also the instances and definitions of the governance models are preferable to be blurry so that they can be improved by a wider community on later expansions of the project. All data, designs and knowledge can be uploaded online under Creative Commons rights to make them accessible to amateurs and professionals.
"ARTivism" as a way to render visible and empower the marginalized ones through the means of contemporary art. In the words of Vincenzo Trione ‘ARTivism is a new form of political art. ARTivists question some emergencies of our time. They open paths on the surface of the news. They engage in concrete, courageous, visionary acts. To imagine another present.’
How stakeholders are engaged
To engage different stakeholders in a possible collaborative configuration that can be effective at organizing and implementing the project I have imagined 3 interlaced executives groups: tutoring team, mediation team, and operational team
The "tutoring team" is made by Elisa Michelini (coordinator and curator), Lorenzo Malloni (architect), Marta Menghi (community manager) and all the artists and scholars that will be occasionally involved in the project. It takes care of the startup phase of the project that matches with the foundation of the school and it will provide the tools to make the operational team independent in terms of construction workshop, flight courses and school governance.
The "mediation team" ideally encompasses all social associations and voluntary groups working in the area, but especially the two main cooperatives I have already collaborated with (Nuova Agenzia Res and On The Road). It serves as a filter between the tutoring and the operational teams. It will first reach out to locals that are potentially interested to participate in the startup phase and then organize participatory tables that involve all parts. This team (together with the community manager) will also be fundamental for cultural and linguistic mediation among the different stakeholders.
They will also be keeping an eye on national and international possibilities of funding in order to further develop the school in the future.
The "operational team" is an ever changing group of locals who will be interested in managing and organizing the school with a horizontal approach and it ranges from local mums dedicated to sewing that support their children in the making of kites sails to those that will be in charge to pass on the discoveries and teachings of flight dynamics. School teachers, supervisors, producers or other unexpected made up figures will all be roles to be discussed together.
The "tutoring team" is made by Elisa Michelini (coordinator and curator), Lorenzo Malloni (architect), Marta Menghi (community manager) and all the artists and scholars that will be occasionally involved in the project. It takes care of the startup phase of the project that matches with the foundation of the school and it will provide the tools to make the operational team independent in terms of construction workshop, flight courses and school governance.
The "mediation team" ideally encompasses all social associations and voluntary groups working in the area, but especially the two main cooperatives I have already collaborated with (Nuova Agenzia Res and On The Road). It serves as a filter between the tutoring and the operational teams. It will first reach out to locals that are potentially interested to participate in the startup phase and then organize participatory tables that involve all parts. This team (together with the community manager) will also be fundamental for cultural and linguistic mediation among the different stakeholders.
They will also be keeping an eye on national and international possibilities of funding in order to further develop the school in the future.
The "operational team" is an ever changing group of locals who will be interested in managing and organizing the school with a horizontal approach and it ranges from local mums dedicated to sewing that support their children in the making of kites sails to those that will be in charge to pass on the discoveries and teachings of flight dynamics. School teachers, supervisors, producers or other unexpected made up figures will all be roles to be discussed together.
Global challenges
The context in which this project will operate is that of the neighbourhood of Lido Tre Archi, periphery of the city of Fermo, in central Italy, a complicated and marginalized area mostly inhabited by migrant communities, where in recent years some social projects have emerged aimed at putting the people who live in the neighbourhood at the centre of an international social and political debate around the degradation of urban peripheries.
The many supportive actors operating in the neighbourhood have, over time, developed certain lines of action that can be defined in the fields of: education; socio-economic integration; social support and cultural mediation; sports activities; community animation. The aim of the different interventions is to foster a collective awareness of the origins of the marginal conditions in the neighbourhood and to work from the bottom up for a community-based response.
In addition to the work of social cooperatives and voluntary associations present in the area, a network of artists is recently developing who are willing to support this emancipation process by the means of art as a form of activism that recounts the neighbourhood outside the usual stereotypes linked to social marginality.
Interwaved within this network of mutualism, COMUNITARIA will do its best to improve life quality standards in this difficult context and simultaneously act more globally by organizing symposiums, talks and events that will have the potential of shedding a light on the fragile communities of the peripheries. With the strong believe that a local political change has to come not only from the political institution but mainly from a careful listening of the needs of those who inhabit it, this project will deploy a set of methodologies and approaches in the fields of “affordable design”, “grassroots governance” and “ludic pedagogy” that can either be exported globally where the are similar circumstances or scaled from micro to macro
The many supportive actors operating in the neighbourhood have, over time, developed certain lines of action that can be defined in the fields of: education; socio-economic integration; social support and cultural mediation; sports activities; community animation. The aim of the different interventions is to foster a collective awareness of the origins of the marginal conditions in the neighbourhood and to work from the bottom up for a community-based response.
In addition to the work of social cooperatives and voluntary associations present in the area, a network of artists is recently developing who are willing to support this emancipation process by the means of art as a form of activism that recounts the neighbourhood outside the usual stereotypes linked to social marginality.
Interwaved within this network of mutualism, COMUNITARIA will do its best to improve life quality standards in this difficult context and simultaneously act more globally by organizing symposiums, talks and events that will have the potential of shedding a light on the fragile communities of the peripheries. With the strong believe that a local political change has to come not only from the political institution but mainly from a careful listening of the needs of those who inhabit it, this project will deploy a set of methodologies and approaches in the fields of “affordable design”, “grassroots governance” and “ludic pedagogy” that can either be exported globally where the are similar circumstances or scaled from micro to macro
Learning transferred to other parties
Embedded in the technological principles of “affordable design” of the Eteria construction laboratory as described above, there is an evident attitude to replicability that can be formalized and expressed by the drafting of construction and assembly manuals. Our desire is that COMUNITARIA in Lido Tre Archi will be only the first of a series of schools that can be founded all over the world, all connected and taken care of by a vast international future community of pilots and makers.
The knowledge acquired by every of these possible schools in terms of construction know-how and piloting skills can later be uploaded onto an open-source, shared online platform of the project.
The “grassroots governance” and “ludic pedagogy” models that will also be developed in this project can become the blueprint for future schools, adapting approaches and processes to local environmental and cultural context. Scholars and researchers from the academic schools can help at transferring these findings into their academic papers.
Furthermore, the “tutoring team” (architect, curator and the community manager) functions as a temporary activator on a specific territory that can later move to other locations to support the startup phase of other schools providing training and closeness to all the aspects that are being developed for Lido Tre Archi.
In every new place where the “tutoring team” will start a new school, it will be needed to again define and structure also the local, permanent “mediation team” and “operative team”.
The knowledge acquired by every of these possible schools in terms of construction know-how and piloting skills can later be uploaded onto an open-source, shared online platform of the project.
The “grassroots governance” and “ludic pedagogy” models that will also be developed in this project can become the blueprint for future schools, adapting approaches and processes to local environmental and cultural context. Scholars and researchers from the academic schools can help at transferring these findings into their academic papers.
Furthermore, the “tutoring team” (architect, curator and the community manager) functions as a temporary activator on a specific territory that can later move to other locations to support the startup phase of other schools providing training and closeness to all the aspects that are being developed for Lido Tre Archi.
In every new place where the “tutoring team” will start a new school, it will be needed to again define and structure also the local, permanent “mediation team” and “operative team”.
Keywords
community building
learning by the wind
grassroots governance
emancipation through self-empowerment
ARTivism
