The project “Seeds Under the Snow” positions itself at the intersection of contemporary cultural, social and environmental urban challenges and presents an experimental laboratory to promote social cohesion, sustainable resource use, and collective action. It focuses on working with urban commons and methods of self-building as a means of facilitating autonomous civic activities that support local communities in addressing pressing urban challenges.
The aim was to bring together various stakeholders active in Bergamo to learn from each other and jointly build innovative urban infrastructures - through experiments in urban agriculture, sustainable food, waste management and personal well-being.
The summer school tested and implemente experimental strategies on the ground, connecting active members of the community with experts in the fields of design, carpentry, geogrpahy, botanics, and invited young participants to explore alternative scenarios for dealing creatively and collectively with urban challenges while living and working together on the project site.
The aim was to bring together various stakeholders active in Bergamo to learn from each other and jointly build innovative urban infrastructures - through experiments in urban agriculture, sustainable food, waste management and personal well-being.
The summer school tested and implemente experimental strategies on the ground, connecting active members of the community with experts in the fields of design, carpentry, geogrpahy, botanics, and invited young participants to explore alternative scenarios for dealing creatively and collectively with urban challenges while living and working together on the project site.
Between the 7th and 14th of September, a group of 25 people cooked, rested, screwed, knotted, walked, foraged, cut, sawed, assembled, danced together. In the spirit of the nomadic society, the group crossed the territory of Bergamo, acting in various locations: a social orchard, a vegetable garden led by a cooperative working on social inlcusion, a park managed by a social association, two socio-cultural self-managed centres. During the week, the group has produced various devices that were adopted by the local associations: a fireplace and cooking surface, a lavatory, a storage, a tools hanger, a cart, a dining table with benches, working stations, a map, a soundscape.
The summer school is the result of a collaboration with So.No. Società Nomade, Abuse Studio (Milano), Atelier Remoto (bergamo), Luca Eminenti and Iris Lacoudre (Paris), Cooperativa L’Impronta, Frutteto Sass de Luna, Maite APS, Circolo Ricreativo Pignolo, Jacopo Biffi (Altesfere), Ono Collective, Melma Crew.
The summer school is the result of a collaboration with So.No. Società Nomade, Abuse Studio (Milano), Atelier Remoto (bergamo), Luca Eminenti and Iris Lacoudre (Paris), Cooperativa L’Impronta, Frutteto Sass de Luna, Maite APS, Circolo Ricreativo Pignolo, Jacopo Biffi (Altesfere), Ono Collective, Melma Crew.
