WORKSHOP 10/2024

MUSE – Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy

This workshop, tutored by Michela Dal Brollo on behalf of the Living Equipment Portable Space collective, involved the participants in the collaborative creation of paper using pulp derived from the vegetable fibers found in the excrement of ruminants such as deer, goats, and cows animals, whose stomachs finely shred plant material. The workshop stems from research into biomaterial recipes developed by the artistic duo.

The concept behind these material experiments is to reflect on how the activities of animals are intertwined with the landscape shaping each other and to reflect on how, as humans, we can find inspiration in forms of reciprocity with natural environments. 

The workshop was accompanied by the screening of the short film ‘Respigar Espinhos’ by Michela Dal Brollo and Ines Ballesteros, filmed in the village of Casa Branca. The short film shows other processes of experimentation with biomaterials and culinary practices with local plants.

BenEsseri

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.

Cibo Casa Città

WORKSHOP 10/2022

Organized by Cultural Association La seconda luna Laives, Italy

How our cities will be linked to food in the future?

The project CIBO CASA CITTÀ was divided into four meetings and aimed to involve the community of Laives and neighboring communities in a discussion on how food determines the city’s shape and how the city defines the type of society that inhabits it. 

The initiative proposed a reflection on various themes (food, urban planning, self-construction, and relationships). 

Toutor of the laboratories: Sara Filippi Plotegher – Scientific illustrator and nutritionist; Marco Cestarolli – Architect-craftsman; Michela Dal Brollo- Living equipment: portable spaces – Relational artist.

During the last meeting, each participant was invited to bring an ingredient and tell something related to it. We mixed the ingredients and the participants’ stories. The ingredients brought became the filling for the pizzas cooked with the Living equipment cum panis.