Fiumicina Festival - Day 1

Irene Lucas is a visual artist working at the interrelation of science, art, and technology. relating common territories of critical art practice, combining methods of nature, art, and play pedagogies. She works collectively in cooperation with the artist Christoph Euler, Project Expanded Garden FLUCC, Vienna, 2023 and Corridor Breaks at Manifesta 8, in Murcia, 2010. She is the founder of the Solarmanufaktur and the art space toZOMIA in Vienna since 2019.

Francesca Gotti is a spatial practitioner and researcher, engaged in practices of spatial self-production and shared management, reflecting through simulations and choral performative actions. Since 2015, she has coordinated initiatives for the collective reuse of urban commons in the city of Bergamo and has collaborated on related projects in other regions of Italy. From 2019 to 2022, she was a research fellow at the Politecnico di Milano for the European project En/counter/points, focused on the reactivation of neglected urban spaces; as part of this project, she co-authored the book The Design of Tactics (DPR Barcelona, 2022). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Politecnico di Milano, where she investigates the role of architecture and architects in projects of autonomy and empowerment within contexts affected by urban social inequalities in Southern Europe. Since 2021, she has been an assistant lecturer for the Neotopia studio led by Léopold Banchini at the USI Academy of Mendrisio.

Hilary Solly is a social anthropologist who studied at the University of Manchester, UK (Master’s) and the Free University of Brussels, Belgium (PhD). She moved to Bolzano in 2007 and has worked for over 10 years with the Donne Nissa Association. The organisation is involved in various projects aimed at migrant women and their families. In 2010, she co-founded a community garden project with the association. In 2015, she established the CucinaCultura project to communicate different cultures through their food. She now works as a researcher in social anthropology at the University of Bolzano.

Pasquale Bonasora is the president of Labsus – Laboratorio per la Sussidiarietà APS, a research center founded in 2005 with the aim of promoting studies and research on the principle of subsidiarity. Since 2014, he has been a member of the board of directors, regional coordinator for Puglia and the southern regions of Italy for Labsus, and a member of the editorial board of the online journal, serving as the head editor of the Collaboration Pacts section until 2021. An expert in facilitating citizen engagement processes for the creation of Collaboration Pacts, he is a consultant and trainer for public, private, and third-sector organisations on shared administration and the management of common goods. He has coordinated the adoption of regulations for shared administration and the co-design of Collaboration Pacts throughout Italy.

Andrea Perini is co-founder of Terzo Paesaggio, an organisation committed to evolving culturally based urban regeneration practices, bridging artistic production and curation. The organisation focuses on participatory art, architectural and landscape projects, the adaptive reuse of spaces and disused public heritage, regenerative agriculture, non-formal education, and community engagement.

Co-founder of MadreProject, Scuola del Pane e dei Luoghi.

Marco Stagni, the son of a musician, approached music only at the age of 18, starting his first steps in the punk scene. Over the years, he developed a passion for other musical genres while completing his studies of jazz double bass at the Conservatory of Trento. In the summer of 2008, he spent time in Havana to deepen his knowledge of traditional and contemporary Cuban music, studying with Roberto Martinez and Adrian Guerra.
Throughout the years, he has had the opportunity to collaborate with many musicians across various genres and has participated in the recording of more than thirty albums. He has performed in Italy, Germany, Brazil, the USA, France, Austria, Morocco, Switzerland, Spain, Bosnia, Denmark, England, Cuba, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Belgium, playing in venues such as the Bataclan, Café de la Danse in Paris, Paradiso in Amsterdam, the Parliament in Vienna, Porgy and Bess in Vienna, and the Vortex in London.
He is a member of the Euregio Jazzwerkstatt, a collective of musicians from Austria, Italy, and Switzerland, founded and promoted by the Südtirol Jazz Festival.