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WORKSHOP 08/2024
La Foresta, Rovereto, Italy
Living Equipment came to Rovereto with a workshop tutored by Michela Dal Brollo. The workshop focused on the concept of “recipe”. The recipes were used as a tools for exchange to reflect on issues such as community, cultural heritage and sustainable practices.
Multigenerational prints
Participants explored the theme through hands-on activities, such as DIY printing with the low-tech techniques of the GELATIONGRAFO.
The workshop involved the guests of a retirement home, who enriched the experience with intergenerational knowledge and perspectives. The participants contributed to printing the recipes, expressing themselves through drawing and writing.
The shared recipes, linked to the Trentino tradition, became an opportunity to exchange memories and reflect on the theme of resistance to consumerism. Each recipe and ingredient shared tells stories of territories, migrations and traditions.
The workshop concluded with the creation of collective prints with photosensitive ink, deliberately impermanent, to symbolize the fluid and temporary nature of the informal knowledge transmission. This unconventional way of recording knowledge became like a ‘living archive’ that evolves over time and across generations.
The city as recipe
We held a second workshop to reflect on the city and urban space as a recipe, with territorial resources as ingredients. We also explored how the recipe can be a methodological cue for design (inspired Il riso verde Bruno Munari). Using these suggestions, we imagined ‘relational tools’ for urban space.
The day ended with the presentation of Living Equipment’s relational tools, the projection of the film The Last Summer, and a parallel between the topics discussed, especially that of the recipe, with the artistic and methodological research of the artists’ duo.
Organized by Acropoli Trento and La Foresta Rovereto, curated by AIDEL and financed by GiPro.
Foto di Sara Di Valerio.
