ECOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF COMMONS BUILDING

We are proud to be able to host the field work session for the EHESS Masters in Environmental studies students this autumn. Working with historian of science Christophe Bonneuil and sociologist Geneviève Pruvost amongst others, we will be exploring how a deeper understanding of biology and ecology enables us to develop models for mutual systems […]

Collective Practices

Collective Practices is an intensive one-year research course (one-year, full-time) at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. A group of students from this course will be visiting us for a week long intensive immersive workshop on art, activism, commoning and utopias in May 2021.

Global Just Recovery Gathering

On April 9-11, tens of thousands of people around the world came together to collectively reimagine our future. The Global Just Recovery Gathering was a three-day online event featuring interactive workshops, cultural sessions, and hands-on trainings. Isabelle ran two workshops during the event, including a participatory event sharing tools to apply creativity and imagination to […]

Resilience Governance Through Commons

Cultures for Resilience, invited Isabelle to present our work on commoning in their first Seminar in March 2021, Resilience Governance through Commons. C4R is a project that proposes a holistic approach to resilience using immersive cultural practices and collaborative tools as bridges to increase resilience, diversify modes of involvement in “territorial empowerment” and promote capacity […]

After Art School

In June 2021 we launch a new series of online workshops, working with UK based Future Ventures Foundation. After Art School is a 7 week long free workshop which invites participants to explore what might come after art, what it would mean not to go back to normal after the pandemic, What would the future […]

Imaginaries of Ecology

We were delighted to return to CIfAS at the beautiful Belone centre for research and reflection in Brussels as part of their Urban Academy series. We ran a day long art and activism workshop with 40 participants, gave an evening presentation about the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination to a full house, and took part in […]

Two new little documentaries about the ZAD

We just helped some folk from Telesur TV to make two little 15 minute documentaries in english about the zad, the 4000 acres of liberated land against an airport and its world where the labofii are now based. The first film is about the history of the struggle, the final one about the way the […]

The art of becoming territory Goldsmiths College

“It’s like living in the playground you always dreamt of as a child.” Camille, occupier of the zad. “That’s how I resist, by keeping working till the police arrive. Whether we like it or not we have become more than ourselves.” Marcel, Farmer living and working on the zad. On the western edge of France, 4000 […]

Conférence sur l’artivisme et atelier Créa(c)tion à Metz les 28 & 29 janvier

Les 28 et 29 janvier prochains, Isa et John seront au Frac de Metz pour une conférence sur l’artivisme le samedi à 14h et un atelier Crea(c)tion animé en collaboration avec le collectif Diffraction, le dimanche de 10h à 17h30. Rendez vous donc au FRAC Lorraine à la fin du mois!

Formation de formateurs et formatrices pour la Justice Climatique, PARIS, 23-25 Octobre.

Tu veux faire partie d’un mouvement croissant qui lutte pour la justice climatique ? Tu as l’expérience d’actions directes non violente et serais prêt-e à partager tes compétences pour que ce mouvement devienne encore plus important? La Conférence sur le climat des Nations Unies (COP21) aura lieu à Paris en décembre et les mobilisations s’intensifient […]