Quilting perspectives
for more just cities

Design and facilitation of a pathway involving managers of over 150 civic aggregation spaces, independent cultural centres, and new cultural centres

Participatory action research for the development of methodologies and implementation of a pilot project for collective living and horizontal governance management. It addressed the process of creating a group, finding a house, and purchasing an asset to remove it from market dynamics, overcoming the model of individual ownership and experimenting with a de-commodified collective ownership mode.

Abitare Bene Comune is an association born from a committee established in 2024 from the “Italy goes Mietshäuser Syndikat” path (promoted by La Foresta), to study and adapt the Mietshäuser Syndikat cooperative model to the Italian context. The goal is to build legal structures that remove homes and spaces from speculation, guaranteeing their collective use in the long term.

The School of Losing Time is an organization that investigates urban culture and city policies, activating dialogues between architecture, visual arts, and civil society. Its projects explore commoning practices and play as tools to rethink the use of time beyond market logic.

Designing, coordinating, and facilitating the accompaniment pathway for the first two editions of the “Health, Common Effect” grant (2020–2023 and 2023–2025), planning activities, monitoring funded projects, and managing relationships with partnerships, ensuring continuous mentoring.
Designing and animating, for both editions, a Community of Practice among selected projects, with meetings and thematic seminars, and producing reports and synthesis materials that return learnings, methodologies, and shared tools useful for the subjects involved and for the foundation.

Cultural, Creative Spaces and Cities (CCSC) is a European participatory policy project in the field of culture, co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme. It brings together cultural and creative spaces, local administrations, and other actors to co-design new public policies, demonstrating how cultural practices and commoning can transform neighbourhoods and cities into more sustainable and liveable places for communities. The project develops and tests co-creation methods through Urban Labs in various European cities, promoting peer exchange, experimentation with new organisational models, and tools to integrate culture and commons into urban policies.

L’École des Communs is a participatory action research project funded by the Fondation Paris Habitat that experiments, in the La Chapelle neighbourhood of Paris, with different ways of enacting governance as a shared practice. The initiative consists of a series of workshops aimed at neighbourhood organisations, working on participation, mutualistic strategies, and governance structure design through the lens of commons and commoning. Within the project, the work involved curation, research, content production, and the facilitation of 5 workshops dedicated to neighbourhood realities.

“Debunking the micropolitics of relationships” is a laboratory that investigates power relations in everyday relationships — romantic, professional, political, and even more-than-human — as part of broader systemic structures. The goal is to open a shared space to challenge the idea that relationships are “private matters” and to recognise them instead as political terrains for collective action toward change.

Facilitation pathway supporting La Foresta (Rovereto), a complex ecosystem integrating a physical space, a community of people, and an organisation engaged in political, social, and economic objectives, articulated in a plurality of projects, activities, and forms of volunteering. The facilitation accompanied the group in a self-assessment pathway of medium- and long-term needs and priorities, starting from the association’s founding documents. The work also stimulated reflection on how these vision and mission priorities could translate into the new governance structure being defined.