Regenerative living-creating spaces for the multi species co-existence
Learning through doing -educational program

Focus of the program are following:

 

• How to preserve margins – understanding margins in natural and social context, margins as a central space for re- starting the relationships with more than human world, margins as a space where two worlds touch each other, margins as a space for preserving fertility, understanding margins through biodiversity.

• Natural building – recycling and upcycling, making social spaces in natural environment with natural and locally found material, how to coordinate and plan the space that is always growing, understanding co living spaces through seasons.

• Sustainable kitchen: understanding of eco system, seasonal food, no waste concept, eating locally, traditional dishes in contemporary living, foraging among others.

 

Program fees:

Fees: for participants from Balkan countries 200 euros

For all other participants 400 euros

For WCSCD alumni 20% off discount

 

This price includes three meals and accommodation. Accommodation is distributed to first come first serve bases and for the rest of participants camping spots are available.

 

How to apply

Send us Motivation letter why u want to be part of the program

Short bio no more then 200 words

Application send to what.could.curating.do@gmail.com with title Regenerative living program application

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About Mentors:

Petra Pavleka is a landscape architect, permaculturist, and educator focused on agroecology and sustainable living.

She worked as an external professional associate on landscaping projects. She is also involved in green volunteerism, advises local councilors as an expert associate, and participates in several working groups and civic initiatives such as the "Initiative for a Public Orchard on Jarun".

For the last decade, she has been experimenting with gardening, preparing food for winter storage, making natural creams for friends and family, making bread, and learning to sew clothes and weave baskets.

6 years ago, she moved from the city to the countryside. She is focused on creating more stable food systems and seed conservation programs for the associations ZMAG (where she was once the head of the Community Seed Bank and food program) and Biovrt - in harmony with nature. Her greatest passion is sharing knowledge, so she holds trainings all over Croatia and beyond.

 

Sergio Monterro Bravo As an architect his work evolves around communal projects, pedagogy, art and design. The main focus are the many ways in which social and ecological perspectives transforms how we feel, think and make. This runs through all of his works today, exemplified in his current research Territorial, Art, Design and Architecture at Konstfack. The research operates on the basis of unfolding a place-sensible practice concerned with peri-urban and rural living environments. With collaborators, students and stakeholders he explores territorialization of space and place where there is less human intervention, as means to feel different and change mindset. The research unfolds through communal projects in peri-urban and rural locations, relational to species and systems made invisible through urban ecologies.

 

Jelica Jovanović is an architect, architectural historian, heritage preservation professional and researcher. She is a PhD student at University of Technology in Vienna, working on thesis on preservation of mass housing of Yugoslavia, graduated from Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade with a revitalisation project of the Museum of Yugoslavia History. She is a founding member and president of the NGO Grupa arhitekata, within which she organizes summer schools and workshops revitalizing vernacular architecture in Serbia and works on architectural heritage and sustainability related research projects. She is a  founding member and former secretary of Docomomo Serbia, within which she works as the digitization coordinator and on documentation projects. She was coordinator of the project “Unfinished Modernisations: Between Utopia and Pragmatism” for Association of Belgrade Architects, coordinator of the regional platform “(In)appropiate Monuments”, curatorial assistant of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) for the exhibition “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948–1980”, coauthor of the platform “Arhiva modernizma”, coauthor of the research project and the book "Bogdan Bogdanović Biblioteka Beograd". 

 

Luigi Coppola (born in Lecce, Italy) is an artist, agroecologist, upholder of participatory projects driven by an innovative approach to the politics of the Commons and author of actions designed to activate collective potentials. His work is rooted in site-specific research of social, political and cultural subjects, collectivization of goods, activation of relational dynamics and processes of emancipation and imagination. Since 2013 he is engaged with Casa delle Agriculture in Castiglione d'Otranto (Lecce, Italy) as co-activator of a complex and multilayered process of participative agriculture, recuperation of polluted lands, creation of a participative economy, which revolves around the annual festival Notte Verde: Agriculture, utopias and community, the Parco Comune dei Frutti Minori (Common Park of the Minor Fruits) and Scuola di Agriculture (School of Agricultures), a pedagogical platform that combines agroecological knowledge with artistic strategies and builds relationships with migrant communities, students, farmers and activists. Luigi led a research and workshop revolving around soil, agriculture and pollution in Lubumbashi and Katanga and developed a long term path with a small group of cultural practitioners involved in Ateliers Picha.

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Marko Bajić, a young chef, with experience working in restaurants and hotels in Zagreb, as well as summer positions in Makarska Riviera, Pag, Korčula, Hvar, and Istria. There, he honed his passion for gastronomy and broadened his perspective on local and seasonal products. Although he enjoys traveling and finding inspiration in the flavors and traditions of many cultures, the plates he makes are generally made with regional products with a strong focus on simplicity. In the last restaurant, he created his own menu in which the ingredients were from a narrow region, with known methods of growing them. The thought behind everything is simplicity. Eat fresh, organic food that grows in your region.